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As firms adopt a consumer focus for mass customizable product development strategy, it becomes essential for them to conduct early product design and development trade-off analysis among competing objectives of increased product variety, shorter product lifecycles, and smaller lot sizes. A distributed Knowledge Base System is needed for these complex decisions. This chapter proposes a knowledge management approach based on consumer-focused product design philosophy. It integrates capabilities for (a) intelligent information support, and (b) group decision-making, utilizing a common enterprise network model and knowledge interface through shared ontologies.
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Chandra, C., Kamrani, A.K. (2004). Knowledge Management for Consumer-Focused Product Design. In: Mass Customization. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9015-0_9
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