Dear Mass Customization Community, Dear sustainability researchers and practitioners, In November 2017, the next edition of the MCPC conference series will take place in Aachen, Germany. The SMC Excel team is currently preparing their submission to present the results of the ECO INNOVERA project that started in April 2014 and that will finish shortly before [...]

Dear Mass Customization Community! The 9th World Mass Customization & Personalization Conference takes place in Aachen, Germany, November 20-21 2017! It will feature four large tracks on Mass Customization & Sustainability, Smart Products, Digital Manufacturing, and MCP success factors! For more information about the MCPC conference series, its history, vanue, important dates and most importantly [...]

The SMC Excel consortium developed a first version of a web-based configurator for TVs. To test and improve the configurator, we would like to encourage interested readers of our website to participate in a 15-minutes survey: https://www.unipark.de/uc/rwth/tim/tv/. Thank you very much for participating!

The project consortium successfully published an article on the Design of Business Models for Sustainable Mass Customization in the International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (IJIEM). The paper is available at or at .

SMC Excel member Stephan Hankammer will present results of the SMC Excel Project and the current state of a consumer research study on Sustainable Mass Customization at RWTH Aachen University’s “Innovation Research Seminar” on 11 January 2017, 2.00 to 3.30 pm, in the TIM Social Area, Kackertstraße 7. The title of the presentation is “Nudging [...]

We are happy to announce that two new companies have joined the project consortium recently. We warmly welcome Aurum Gavia (Website) and Recommerce Solutions (Website). More Infos about the new partners will follow soon…

The 5th Consortium Project Meeting in Darmstadt (Germany) took place on the 2nd and 3rd of November, 2016. The partners of the SMC Excel project (VESTEL, RWTH Aachen, SUPSI, and e-hoch-3) met to discuss the current state of the SMC Excel project and further steps for future project planning. Each partner gave one or more presentations [...]

World’s leading consumer electronics show took place in Berlin, Germany, between September 02 and 07. Sultan Kaygın Sel from SMC-Excel partner Vestel attended IFA this year for taking insights of latest trends in consumer electronics. Vestel (similar to previous years) was one of the biggest exhibitors having 3000 m2 exhibition area used for presenting a wide [...]

Scientific American posted an interesting story on customizable (and sustainable) smartphones this 1st of July. You find the story here.
For the development of this story, the SMC Excel project was happy to provide insights for the assessment of Google’s Project Ara.

We are very happy to announce that the (full consortium) article “User-Interface Design for Individualization Services to Enhance Sustainable Consumption and Production” has been accepted for publication in the Open-Access Journal Procedia CIRP and selected for presentation at this year’s IPSS CIRP Conference (Product-Service Systems across Life Cycle) taking place in Bergamo (Italy) in June 2016. [...]

Our Case Study on Sustainable Mass Customization for Smartphones (Phonebloks / Google Project Ara) has been accepted for publication in Procedia CIRP 2016. We will disseminate the results at this year’s 3rd international Conference on Ramp-Up Management taking place in Aachen (Germany) in June 2016. The article summarizes the findings resulting from SMC-Excel’s case study [...]

We are happy to announce that we will disseminate results of our SMC-Excel project at this year’s 5th International Degrowth Conference taking place in Budapest (Hungary) from 30 August to 3 September 2016. SMC-Excel member Stephan Hankammer will present an overview on interrelations between collaborative value creation concepts (such as Mass Customization) and sufficient consumption, [...]

SMC Excel member Stephan Hankammer will give a seminar on Researching Sustainable Mass Customization at Politecnico di Milano’s School of Management on 4th of May (12:00, Room 3.23). In this seminar, he will present the scope and preliminary results of the SMC Excel project and discuss research opportunities and obstacles of this research field with [...]

From October 20th to 22nd the 2015th World Conference on Mass Customization, Personalization and Co-Creation took place in Montreal, Canada. Researchers from all over the world came together to discuss recent academic research and issues related to the implementation of MC in practice. SMC-Excel project leader Frank Piller held a keynote on complexity as an [...]

We are happy to announce that we will present our SMC-Excel project at this year’s Global Cleaner Production Conference taking place in Sitges (Spain) from November 1st until November 4th 2015. SMC-Excel member Stephan Hankammer will present a case study resulting from the SMC-Excel project, which deals with Google’s modular smartphone approach “Project Ara”. This [...]

In September 2015 the project consortium met in Manisa (Turkey) for its fourth project meeting hosted by VESTEL Electronics. In this project meeting we mapped the current business model(s) used by VESTEL for their domestic market on the one hand and their international market on the other hand. Furthermore we created a box of bricks [...]

We are very happy to announce that the article “Leveraging the sustainability potential of mass customization through product service systems in the consumer electronics industry” has been published in the Procedia CIRP May 2015. Stephan Hankammer will present the results of the paper at the 7th Industrial Product-Service Systems Conference - PSS, industry transformation for [...]

From the 18th-21st of May 2015 the SMC-Excel Project participates at the 7th IPS² Spring School on Sustainable Product-Service Systems Design in Grenoble and Saint Etienne (France). Here, around 25 researchers from several European countries come together to discuss possibilities to design Sustainable Product-Service-Systems. For the SMC-Excel project this program is especially useful in order to [...]

In the beginning of May 2015 the project consortium met in Lugano (Switzerland) for its third project meeting hosted by the Department of Innovative Technologies, SUPSI. At the center of attention was the theoretical environmental analysis of possible customization options as a first step for the creation of scenarios for sustainability oriented business models based on [...]

SMC-Excel’s team member Stephan Hankammer will co-host a special session on Mass Customization & Sustainability at the World Conference on Mass Customization, Personalization and Co-Creation in Montreal 2015. Please submit your abstracts with practical, theoretical or research focused subjects of interest until 8th of May 2015. We are very much looking forward to this event and [...]