A methodology on parts specification management with customer demands for Mass Customization

摘要

This paper proposes a decision making method to prepare parts variation satisfying customers' demands by estimating their needs and establishing a production schedule with small tardiness. Proposed method consists of two parts which are scheduling part and parts variation management part. A schedule is established by Combinatorial Auction imitating negotiation among customers. Pheromone is used to cooperate among the customers. In the parts variation management, a manufacturer uses the pheromone distribution to obtain customers' demands. Effectiveness of the proposed method is conformed by computational experiments.