Establishing rules to design a minicell-based manufacturing system for mass customisation
by Smitha Thuramalla, Fazleena Badurdeen
International Journal of Agile Systems and Management (IJASM), Vol. 3, No. 1/2, 2008

Abstract: Mass Customisation (MC) is the production of individually customised offerings at low cost and short lead times. Successful MC requires a complete shift in the paradigm from the design-make-sell philosophy used in traditional manufacturing to one that is based on design-sell-make. Flexibility in the manufacturing system is therefore essential to receive orders from customers and fabricate and assemble products as necessary. A minicell-based manufacturing system, which is a modular, networked configuration, is one approach to achieve this flexibility. Due to the various methods available to design the modular minicell configuration, establishing good designs is a complex and time-consuming process. This paper focuses on establishing design rules that can help identify good minicell configurations, to achieve different performance criteria, without having to explore the entire solution space.

Online publication date: Thu, 17-Jul-2008

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