In 2008, a few smaller focused events on mass customization and personalization are coming up. The next large MCPC conference will be in Europe in 2009. Before, you have the opportunity to interact on these regional events -- all taking place at very nice locations in Europe!
(1) 3rd Conference on Mass Customization and Personalization in Central Europe (MCP-CE 2008)
3-6th of June 2008, Palić - Novi Sad, Serbia
Conference chairs Robert Freund, UITM Poland, and Zoran Anisic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia are again bringing together the East European countries in this general, but regional event. This conference is a great example of our growing mass customization community. The MCp-CE 2008 is organized by the local chapter of the IIMCP, our mass customization society, and driven by the fantastic support of a group of local people!
All conference information and the call for papers: http://www.ftn.ns.ac.yu/MCP-CE2008
(2) 3rd Joint Conference PETO’08 and IMCM’08: Mass Customization of Services
19-20th of June 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark
Kasper Edwards and Lars Hvam from the Technical University of Denmark are hosting this European event this year again in Copenhagen.
Many industrial companies have successfully applied mass customization to physical products. However, little is known on the transmission of mass customization principles to service industry. Our question is if the service industry can benefit from research advances in mass customization. More importantly, how the mass customization of services can be achieved in the practice. This relates also to services associated with the production and sales of mass customized physical goods. Nowadays, one can hardly imagine a product without the delivery of secondary services. Customers are expecting additional services such as financial services or quickly and reliable on site repair and maintenance. In the case of mass customized products, the task faced by manufacturing companies is even harder. Customer service begins with the interaction/configuration process and ends up with the after-sales phase along product usage. The customer may later initiate a new configuration process hoping to add features to his system. This requires a configuration system able to span product families and generations.
More information and the full call for papers: http://www.dtu.dk/sites/IMCMPETO2008.aspx
(3) IF-MC2 2008 First International Footwear - Mass Customization Conference
10th of October 2008, Lugano, Switzerland
Sergio Dulio and Claudio Boer are planning this focused event on mass customization in the footwear industry. The footwear world is showing a growing interest for the application of the Mass Customization paradigm to its business processes. An increasing number of startups, new ventures and traditional producers are launching MC projects or are already in an advanced phase of exploitation of its market benefits.
The conference will survey the actual penetration of MC among footwear companies, it will present a complete analysis of its market potential and it will provide an up to date survey of the most relevant technological and organizational issues related to the adoption of MC by footwear companies. Researchers will also present the state of the art on footwear MC and future trends.
More information will follow!
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