CUSTOMWORLD Concepts, Systems and Technologies for Customised Batches of One

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CUSTOMWORLD Concepts, Systems and Technologies
for Customised Batches of One

• Manufacturing
• Resources,
• Capabilities
• Systems
• Design
• Materials
• Manufacturing
• processes
• Planning
• Control

• Customers
• High value
• -added consumer
• goods
• Machinery
• Instrumentation
• Systems
• Medical devices
• Capital goods
• Automotive

Needs Wishes Desires
Customised Solutions, Can we match?

• Styling/design
• Packaging
• Personalisation
• Delivery
• Service bundle

• Fit/shape/
• dimensions
• Performance
• Functionality
• Properties

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The Challenge develop the concepts, systems and
technologies that will enable large-scale
customisation across manufacturing sectors
Industrial benefits
Research agenda

• Higher value-add
• Increased margins
• Competencies difficult to replicate
• Better performing products
• New marketing opportunities
• Less waste in operations and in supply chains
• Potential for much more local manufacturing.

• Enabling technologies
• Design for customisation
• Front-end processes
• Production process design/order fulfilment
• Control and quality for large-scale flow of
  customised products
• Supply chain and logistics systems
• New organisational networks and clusters

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Collaborating research partners

• NIMRC Nottingham
• Engineering Science, Oxford (non-IMRC)
• Wolfson Manufacturing, Loughborough
• Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge
• White Rose Faraday Packaging partnership, Leeds
• High level of industrial involvement
• International participation