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Product Line Design with Customer Preferences

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Engineering of Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE 2001)

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When customizing their product lines, manufacturers at- tempt to fulfill the requirements of the customers within the technical and economical constraints of the manufacturing environment. Product line design is a recurrent process that aims at finding the proper balance between the exploration of new product alternatives and the exploita- tion of the known selling potential of the available variants. This paper offers a framework where, driven by the interaction of customer prefer- ences and the reallocation of manufacturing resources, product families emerge from technically feasible product alternatives.

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  1. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Computer and Automation Research Institute, 1518, Budapest, P.O.B. 63

    András Márkus & József Váncza

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  1. András Márkus
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  1. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Intelligent Manufacturing and Business Processes Computer and Automation Research Institute, Kende utca 13-17, 1111, Budapest, Hungary

    László Monostori  & József Váncza  & 

  2. Department of Computer Science 601 University Drive, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 78666-4616, USA

    Moonis Ali

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Márkus, A., Váncza, J. (2001). Product Line Design with Customer Preferences. In: Monostori, L., Váncza, J., Ali, M. (eds) Engineering of Intelligent Systems. IEA/AIE 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2070. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45517-5_93

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