Mass Personalization with Industry 4.0 by SMEs: a concept for collaborative networks

I.A.R. Torn; Thomas H.J. Vaneker

doi:10.1016/j.promfg.2018.12.022

Mass Personalization with Industry 4.0 by SMEs: a concept for collaborative networks

I.A.R. Torn, Thomas H.J. Vaneker

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Industry 4.0 (I4.0) increases flexibility of production processes to fabricate products with a level of customization that resembles the era of crafts manufacturing. Despite global competition, personalization is a differentiation strategy applied by manufacturers to remain distinctive. By incorporating personalized products next to their core products, Small-, and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) can respond to the demand for personalized products where individualization adds value. Yet, personalization comes along with high variation due to small series, or even individually unique products. To cope with this variation, SMEs need cost-effective, intuitive solutions to benefit from I4.0 involving minimal efforts. This study presents a concept increasing the capacities of SMEs to capitalize on mass personalization via a collaborative network.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	135-141
Number of pages	7
Journal	Procedia manufacturing
Volume	28
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.promfg.2018.12.022
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2019
Event	7th International conference on Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual production, CARV 2018 - Nantes , France Duration: 8 Oct 2018 → 10 Oct 2018 Conference number: 7

Keywords

Collaborative Network
Distributed Manufacturing
Mass Customisation
Personalisation

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