Automating creation and updates of bills of materials
Production and Inventory Management
Configuration-Design Problem Solving
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
A Configuration Tool to Increase Product Competitiveness
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Sales Configuration in Business Processes
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Configuration research and commercial solutions
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Conceptual modelling for configuration: A description logic-based approach
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Towards a general ontology of configuration
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
An overview of knowledge‐based configuration
AI Communications
Product concept generation and selection using sorting technique and fuzzy c-means algorithm
Computers and Industrial Engineering
A layout technique for class diagrams to be used in product configuration projects
Computers in Industry
The impact of product configurators on lead times in engineering-oriented companies
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
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In order to survive, a great number of small companies are forced to offer a wide product variety and often to respond to the market with customised solutions. At the same time, fast delivery is often a key to win orders. As a result, a vital challenge for these companies is to overcome the trade-off between product variety and delivery time, without compromising cost. Recent developments in Information Technology made available also for small companies a class of software tools--called product configurators--that promise to reduce this trade-off. This paper reports a case study of the implementation of a product configuration software in a small manufacturing enterprise. The paper highlights that the company enjoyed significant benefits from the implementation of the software, especially in terms of delivery time and customer relationships. Moreover, the case evidences that product configuration software can be proactively used as a tool for improving inter-firm co-ordination.