Apparel Mass Customization Technology Based on Postponement Manufacturing

Abstract

Apparel mass customization can effectively meet consumers personalized, diversified needs and reasonably control production costs and delivery time, and the postponement manufacturing is one of its core strategies. Typical cases that garment industry applied postponed strategy into the production are introduced systematically, and present two key technologies-product differentiation delay and design production modularization. Delay product differentiation which is driven into production process by accurate information, avoids the drawbacks of forecasting relying on the experience, and modularization achieves large scale production as well as get the goal of customization. The postponed manufacturing theory, methods, cases, and implementation strategy in the apparel industry field have been explained systematically in order to provide new ideas and references for the apparel enterprises which are in the transformation and upgrading process to obtain core competitiveness and to open up new production business model.