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Subject: CfP: "Mass Customization Manufacturing Systems" - Special Issue
of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management




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                         CALL FOR PAPERS

                        Special Issue of
            IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
            on Mass Customization Manufacturing Systems


          edited by Thorsten Blecker and Gerhard Friedrich


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Deadline for submission: October 31, 2004

Call for Papers: http://www.manufacturing.de/calls/ieee-tem.htm

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management editorial policy:
http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~ieeetem/guidelines.html

Submission website: http://tem-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/

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Customization is fundamentally not a new feature in industrial markets.
However, mass customization, as an emerging business strategy, aims at
associating both the advantages resulting from the satisfac-tion of
individual
customers' needs and the benefits of mass production efficiency.
Mass customization has been made possible owing to the advancements achieved

in the fields of manufacturing systems and modular product architectures.
The main challenge that mass customization has to face, concerns the design
of manufacturing systems that are capable of producing customized goods for
high volume markets with respect to cost efficiencies, as well as quality
and time considerations.


Mass customization induces a considerable proliferation of product variety.
Moreover, customers are more demanding and their requirements regarding
tailor-made solutions are changing rapidly. This significantly influences
manufacturing and involves high operations' complexity. Thus, the
development of a mass customization manufacturing system is much more
challenging than a mere optimization of an existing manufacturing system. It
is not satisfactory to simply adjust a mass production manufacturing system
to lower volume and higher variety. Instead, major changes are necessary,
eventually leading to a radical reconfiguration and redesign process within
manufacturing. Furthermore, a main concern has to be assigned in order to
learn of how to optimally plan and control the production processes in a
variant-rich environment. In addition, product life cycles are becoming
increasingly shorter. That is why the reconfigurability of a manufacturing
system that means stepwise expandability and the possibility to adapt to
different product variants, as well as dynamic plant layouts gains more in
importance. However, the performance of manufacturing systems for mass
customization depends not only on the configuration of the manufacturing
system itself, but also on manufacturing related tasks, such as product
family design, supply chain management, information system integration, etc.
These have to be also addressed in order to fulfill all of the requirements
of efficient and effective mass customization manufacturing systems.

A number of failed projects of providing customized products have initiated
a discussion about the practicability and suitability of existing
approaches and theories dealing with mass customization manufacturing
systems. This special issue of IEEE-TEM is intended to discuss the state
of the art, as well as actual research results in mass customization
manufacturing systems. Practitioners and academic researchers are invited
to submit papers presenting their findings and results. Furthermore,
due to the complex and interdisciplinary disposition of the topics,
we expect contributions from management, economics, industrial engineering
and information technology.


Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

.       Mass Customization Product Design and Configuration
.       Product Family Management
.       Optimization and Management of Modular Product Architectures
.       Flexible Manufacturing Systems
.       Plant Layout and Factory Planning
.       Process Planning and Scheduling
.       Manufacturing Systems Engineering for Variant Rich Processes
.       Mass Customization and Supply Chain Management
.       Definition of the Degree of Coupling/Decoupling
.       Technology Strategies and Management for Mass Customization
        Manufacturing Systems
.       Custom Order Control in Mass Customization Manufacturing Systems
.       Information System Infrastructure and Integration
.       Multi Agent Systems for Variety Formation and Production Planning
        and Control
.       Adaptive Manufacturing Control in Mass Customization
.       Self-organized Order Management and Production
.       Complexity of Mass Customizing Systems
.       Key Performance Indicators for Variety Management
.       Impacts on Intrafirm and Interfirm processes

Papers submitted to this special issue will be reviewed in accordance with
the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management editorial policy
(http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~ieeetem/guidelines.html).
Papers must be submitted via the IEEE electronic submission website
(http://tem-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/).
Authors should indicate in the cover letter that the paper is being
submitted to the special issue on Mass Customization Manufacturing Systems.
Abstracts to ensure appropriateness to the special issue may be submitted
in advance of the deadline by email.



Dr. Thorsten Blecker
University of Klagenfurt
College of Business Administration
Department of Production/Operations Management,
Business Logistics and Environmental Management
Universitaetsstr. 65 - 67
A-9020 Klagenfurt, Austria


Dr. Gerhard Friedrich
University of Klagenfurt
College of Informatics
Department for Computer Science and Manufacturing
Universitaetsstr. 65 - 67
A-9020 Klagenfurt, Austria