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Configurators are essential tools in mass customization. While sales configurators and product configurators have received a fair amount of attention, a new type of configurator has emerged for area of order engineering: design configurator. Design configurators can be used to automate order engineering and decrease lead-time for product quotations and customized designs. Thus, they can bring ETO companies closer to mass customization. In the literature, the concept of design configurator has been suggested and this paper examines the requirements of such configurator for IS integration through illustrative case example. By determining the requirements and integration possibilities of design configurator, this study will greatly benefit different industrial contexts when considering a configurator solution.
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Paunu, P., Mäkipää, M. (2014). Design Configurator Requirements for IS Integration. In: Brunoe, T., Nielsen, K., Joergensen, K., Taps, S. (eds) Proceedings of the 7th World Conference on Mass Customization, Personalization, and Co-Creation (MCPC 2014), Aalborg, Denmark, February 4th - 7th, 2014. Lecture Notes in Production Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04271-8_12
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