International Mass Customization Meeting 2007 (IMCM’07) & International Conference on Economic, Technical and Organisational Aspects of Product Configuration Systems (PETO’07)

Topics: • Adaptive supply chains • Custom order control in MC manufacturing • Customer and supplier integration • Customer-Relationship-Management • Customization of logistic processes • Design and implementation of product configuration systems • Design of a product architecture based on platforms and modules • Design sales and engineering processes • Implementation of configurators in practice • Products and processes in mass customization service operations • Modeling a product assortment • Modular sourcing and the impacts of modular products on the supply chain • Open Innovation • Organization effects of configurators • Personalization and advisory systems • Placement of the decoupling point • Product family management • Modular product architectures • Links between mass customization modes and modular design • Production and Logistic systems complexity • Production planning and control • Variety management and costs of variety