A product and process modeling based approach to study cost implications of product variety in mass customization

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 130-144

  Zhang, Mei ^a,b   Tseng, Mitchell M ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b Astec Custom Power (HK) Ltd   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Mass customization; Process variety; Product variety; Variety cost driver

Indexed keywords

COSTS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; PROCESS DESIGN; PRODUCT DESIGN;

COST IMPLICATION; MASS CUSTOMIZATION; PROCESS MODELING; PRODUCT MODELING;

PRODUCTION;

EID: 33947255486     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2006.889072     Document Type: Article

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