Course Title:
Mass Customization
Course Description:
Explores the field of mass customization (MC) in which a company provides customers with goods and services that suit their individual needs but does so with the efficiency and cost associated with mass production. MC is important in many sectors including computers, automotive, health care, banking, insurance, and tourism. Provides students with conceptual understanding and implementation strategies of MC, based on principles of industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, management science, and marketing. Topics include typology of mass-customized production systems, manufacturing processes for MC, information needs of MC, customer focus, marketing issues, technology enablers, implementation methods, and case studies. Lectures, case discussions, plant visits, guest lectures, and a term project are used. Cross-disciplinary activities, particularly between engineering and business students, are encouraged wherever possible.
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Cross-Listed Course 1:
IEM G265
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Prerequisite Remarks:
Junior or senior standing.
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Repeatable:
N
