If your buyers want custom, built-to-order products, but you need to make and sell enough at a low price to compete with mass production, mass customization is your middle ground. As customers get ...

I consistently take the position that mass customization is a business paradigm just as mass production is a business paradigm. Some companies offering personalized or configured products are ...

Mass customization, where customers order clothing made to their own style tastes and measurements, has been proposed as one solution to overproduction. But the logistical challenges of tailoring ...

Customized parts printed on HP's Multi Jet Fusion 3D printer. The triumph of product standardization, a core principle of mass production, was manufacturing’s man-on-the-moon moment. As essential to ...

When browsing the 3D printing tag on ArchDaily, it is clear that this technology has developed at an incredibly fast pace. If in the early years we observed the concept as a distant possibility for ...

Most manufacturers have departments to handle special requests. Here's how to make every order special. Imagine this: You've been designing a new processing line for weeks and have finally worked out ...

With so much Boeing trending news, I'll shoot my shot at explaining the approach we take at my aerospace firm and why it's the gold standard for the industry. When applied, it strikes the perfect ...

Money managers and investment consultants that manage money, including those with outsourced CIO strategies, increasingly are looking to offer and expand their mass-customization strategies to further ...

The growing demand for customization in quick-service can be attributed to consumer insistence on a “me society” and operators’ intense battle for food-share. Customization in fast food began with the ...