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Our fellow mass customization researcher Golboo Pourabdollahian is conducting a study on MC and sustainability. For this study Golboo is asking for your help:

“Dear colleagues,

May I ask for your kind support for my PhD research?

My research focuses on the fact that how we can make mass customization more sustainable in footwear industry. In this regard I am collecting data to map possible impacts of different Mass Customization enablers on environmental sustainability at the example of the footwear industry.

Therefore I kindly ask you to evaluate a number of relationships between MC enablers and outcomes by responding to a brief survey. You can reach the survey easily by clicking on the following link: goo.gl/so8yY

The survey will take about 10-12 minutes of your time.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at [email protected]

Thanks a lot for your support!”

For the last several years, APMS has been a major event and the official conference of the IFIP Working Group 5.7 on Advances in Production Management Systems, bringing together leading experts from academia, research and industry.

This year’s conference will offer a special session on Customization in service oriented manufacturing.

In a global and competitive context manufacturing, especially in developed economies, is submitted to great market pressures in order to stay competitive with manufacturing in developing economies, such as China and Brazil. To find a way out, they try to create more advanced products and services which are innovative and better fitting to customer needs. Adding services on products to support and differentiate their offering, it brings new challenges and opportunities for manufacturing. This session is Read the rest of this entry →

Agenda_Milano MC Workshop

Next week, on February 5th & 6th, Milano Mass Customization Workshop 2013 will take place in Politecnico di Milano Management School (MIP). The workshop is a joint effort of Politecnico di Milano and RWTH University of Aachen. It provides a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners interested in the field of mass customization, personalization and co-creation to attend interesting talks given by experts and exchange ideas about future of research and collaborations in this field.

The objective of the workshop is to provide the opportunity for attendees to get inspired by different research insights in the field of mass customization such as technologies for co-creation, service customization and Read the rest of this entry →

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By: Franco Cavani, Micaela Groppelli & Fred

A special session on: Decision Tools for Enterprise Resilience

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A resilient enterprise has the capability to respond rapidly to unforeseen disruptions. It is the ability to bounce back and, in fact, to bounce forward with speed, determination and precision. Enterprise Resilience is the next phase in the evolution of traditional, place-centric enterprise structures to highly virtualized and customer-centric structures.
A resilient enterprise effectively aligns its strategy, operations, management systems, governance structure, and decision-support capabilities so that it can uncover and adjust to continually changing risks, endure disruptions to its primary earnings drivers, and create advantages over less adaptive competitors.

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The APMS 2012 international conference was held in Rhodes, Greece 24-26 September. The conference attracted more than 250 delegates from different countries all over the globe exchanging their insights about advances in production management systems. Apart from the parallel sessions of conference, there were 11 special sessions to provide the opportunity for experts to focus more on specific topics and research areas.

Two special sessions were dedicated to Mass Customization, as proposed by Politecnico di Milano. It was the first time in the history of the conference that Mass Customization received this much attention. The two special sessions were titled “Design for Mass Customized products and services” and “Manufacturing and supply chain in a Mass Customization environment”. Read the rest of this entry →

Recently, the International Labour Organization released a report titled: “Working towards sustainable development: opportunities for decent work and social inclusion in a green economy“, Geneva- 2012, in which authors investigate the synergies between sustainability dimensions and argue that environmental degradation has negative impact on economic and social dimensions of sustainability, such as the costs of wasteful production, the destruction of jobs, and income loss. Moreover, the shortage of natural resources leads to escalating prices of goods including food and energy which exacerbates poverty and inequity. In this regard, green economy provides tremendous opportunities to improve all sustainability dimensions. The report Read the rest of this entry →

Next week SUPSI will be in Rhodes, at the International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, to show one of the S-MC-S project results. Rhodes is a very nice place and the conference is a very good occasion to present how we are putting together many little pieces of the big puzzle within the project. We will present a paper about the supply chain modeling and simulation tool which brings us to the very heart of the project concept that is supporting concurrent design of a mass customized solution space while controlling in real-time its sustainability performance.

To support this holistic approach we have developed an integrated tools landscape. Obviously, designing for mass customization while taking care of the sustainability of the entire supply chain means the collection of enormous amounts of data, which must happen during the design phase. Taking care of the sustainability performance after completing the design simply is too late to consider any meaningful change. Our tools landscape is a set of new tools that integrate seamlessly with those the company already has and uses. Read the rest of this entry →

MCKN is proud to introduce a new partner project on the platform: S-MC-S: Sustainable Mass Customization, Mass Customization for Sustainability.

To adapt to global competitive pressures, European Industry must develop methods and enabling technologies towards a personalized, customer oriented and sustainable manufacturing. To this end, S-MC-S vision is to define and research a new production paradigm, Sustainable Mass-Customization.

The capability to produce personalized goods with near mass production efficiency goes widely by the name of Mass-Customization. S-MC-S addresses Mass Customization as one of the main driving forces to achieve effective Sustainability, and thus a key enabler to implement this envisioned personalized sustainable production.

Indeed, manufacturing is growing beyond the economic context, into a social and ecological phenomenon, motivating companies to move towards sustainable manufacturing: manufacturers are thus demanded to merge the need to be reactive towards customer needs and wishes (customized products), with the requisite to be proactive towards ecological and environmental impact (sustainable products).

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