Study on Several Issues in Implementation of Mass Customization

Mass customization is an advanced manufacturing technology which supplies customized products for customers who have individual need.How to deliver quality products and meet individual need of customers with low cost and high speed is the key issue to mass customization.It is revealed that the key factors to successfully implement mass customization are the design of customized products and production process,as well as the production organization.In this respect the design is an issue that closely relates to both customers' early involvement and modularization of customized product and production process,and a solution to the issue is provided.The production organization is actually a process to make customized products,which directly affects their cost,quality and delivery and can be optimized by improving the management level of a company,smoothening material flow,enhancing the flexibility and agility of production system and introducing process control and standardized operation.