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13 Mar 12
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niche market customization. For instance, a company that makes telephones has only a few customers (telephone companies) who want several dozen models in many colors all with specific phone company logos.
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The mass-customizer can use flow manufacturing
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"batch size of one"
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for industrial suppliers, to be able to respond on-demand to assemblers’ pull signals, which may be part of the spontaneous supply chain for the first two cases.
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speed is imperative to minimize mass customization’s biggest vulnerability: waiting
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the elimination of setup, for instance, to get parts, change dies and fixtures, download programs, find instructions, or any kind of manual measurement, adjustment, or positioning of parts or fixtures.
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If setup can be eliminated, then products could be made to-order as orders came in.
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Part and material variety can be easily reduced with standardization techniques by one or two orders of magnitude!3
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18 Nov 09
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09 Nov 07
gavin sadeDiagrams of Mass Customisation production lines do not show peoeple, however "manual assembly area" indicates people are a key component.
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