Mobile apps for product customisation and design of manufacturing networks

Abstract Manufacturing enters a new era, where companies, exploiting mass customisation practices, base their business on mobility and customer integration in product design. These two utterly important activities can be supported by applications deployed on mobile devices, namely apps. However, apps in the manufacturing domain have yet to be widely adopted. Towards that end, the proposed work focuses on the integration of the customer in product personalisation, and aims to support the design of manufacturing networks on the move, through the development of apps for Android devices. The applicability of the developed mobile apps in an automotive pilot case is presented.

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