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Combining additive manufacturing (AM) with mass customization (MC) offers significant profit potential for manufacturers. A hybrid approach optimizes product variety, inventory, and pricing for customer-centric strategies.

Area of Science:

  • Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering
  • Operations Research
  • Supply Chain Management

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  • Additive Manufacturing (AM) is transitioning from prototyping to final part production.
  • Large-scale product customization faces barriers in AM printing speed and volume.
  • Integrating AM with traditional Mass Customization (MC) presents a novel manufacturing opportunity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the strategic integration of AM and MC over a product life cycle (PLC).
  • To develop an optimization model for a monopolist manufacturer producing horizontally differentiated products.
  • To determine optimal inventory, production, variety, technology switching, and pricing strategies.

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  • A non-convex-concave optimization model was developed.
Keywords:
Inventory PolicyManufacturingMass CustomizationPricingProduct Life Cycle

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  • The model considers capacity constraints and customer preferences.
  • Sample Average Approximation (SAA) framework was used to solve the optimization problem, grounded by analytical results.

    • Main Results:

    • A hybrid AM-MC strategy can significantly improve profits for customer-centric approaches.
    • An AM-MC-AM technology-switching scenario shows substantial profit gains under specific capacity conditions.
    • Pricing flexibility benefits are maximized with unlimited capacity or no inventory; decreasing pricing with inventory is effective under capacity constraints.

    Conclusions:

    • The novel hybrid manufacturing practice of combining AM and MC offers significant advantages.
    • Manufacturers can leverage this approach for enhanced customer-centricity and profitability.
    • Strategic technology switching and adaptive pricing are key to maximizing benefits in hybrid manufacturing.