Research On The Influence Of Custom Factors Over Manufacturing Time Under Mass Customization

With the continuous development of science and technology, market competition isbecoming more international. International market and the internet have providedcustomers with more choices of quality, cost, time, and services, customer demand alsobecomes more individualized and diversified.Customer on longer satisfied with onlyselected product, they want to integrate their own individualized customization demandinto the process of the product designing and manufacturing. The customercustomization will lead to many aspects of the production process uncertainty, whichwill affect the production efficiency, and the production efficiency of the manufacturingenterprises could be directly reflected by the manufacturing time in the base data. Inmass customization production environment, if we ignore the key factors ofcustomization that will impact the manufacturing time and this will be difficult toguarantee the accuracy of the manufacturing time. But the defects of the manufacturingtime will bring a series of problems to the manufacturing enterprises:productionplanning scheduling difficulties, production costs are difficult to estimate and control,production capacity cannot be accurately accounting, production delivery is difficult toguarantee, and these will seriously affect the market competitiveness of the enterprises.Base on the mass customization production environment, mass customizationproduction processes and the traditional time calculation method, the paper is taking thelead of the study of how customization impact the manufacturing time and explore thecustomization factors and relationship. In the process of exploring the impactrelationship, using a customized product design process, the manufacturing process andthe assembly process as the starting point, and analyze how the customization impactthat three processes and derive some custom factors, then combine with the queryliterature and summarize the five dimension of the custom factors about10influencingfactors. Using statistical tools such as descriptive statistics and factor analysis,10keycustom factors are selected from the exhausted factors.Then from the five aspects of the customer dimension, dimensional, staff, technicalmethods and equipment maintenance, a relationship map is drawn in the research abouthow custom factors influence the manufacturing time. The mathematical model abouthow custom influence the manufacturing time using the mathematical methods. Finally,the effectiveness and feasibility of the mathematical model has been verified by a business actual case.