Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Product Family Development and Product Configurators (17.IMDR91)

Native organizations units: Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

Type of studies	Title
Doctoral Academic Studies	Industrial Engineering / Engineering Management (Year: 2, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Proizvodni i uslužni sistemi, organizacija i menadžment
ECTS	10

Mastering the development of modular product family architecture suitable for creation of a large number of product variants, according to individual customer requirements. Also, product configurator design able to connect customer requirements with functional characteristics of the product.

After completing and passing the exam, students are able to design the architecture of the product and the production program that is suitable for the configuration to suit individual customer requirements. Students are also able to design the structure of the product configurator according to the required depth and width of customization.

Basics of Mass Customization strategy. Product family structure and development of structural scheme for a production programme. Linking consumer demands, attributes and their values ??to functional characteristics of a product. Determination of width and depth of customization. Different types configurators. The structure and design of a product configurator. Various case studies of commercial configurators.

Lectures are auditory, followed by appropriate slides, while excercises are performing in small groups mostly auditory, but partly in a computer laboratory.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Simpson, T., Siddique, Z., Jiao, R.	Product Platform and Product Family Design: Methods and Applications	2005	Springer	English
Hvam, L., Mortensen, N.H., Riis, J.	Product Customization	2008	Springer, Berlin	English
Piller, F., Tseng, M.	Handbook of Research in Mass Customization and Personalization	2010	World Scientific, New Jersey	English