Rapid Tooling Strategies For Product Customization

Nur Shahirah , Mad Hashim (2009) Rapid Tooling Strategies For Product Customization. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Modernization had created customer that always seek out for products that can be customized according to their desires. This situation somehow had challenge the manufacturer to come out with a new product that can be tailored according to customers desires but still bring the company high profit with the minimum cost and at the shortest lead time. The pressure to fulfill those challenges can become unbearable for the manufacturer if they don’t have suitable and appropriate technologies to keep up with the demand. Through this report, the author had tried to show to what extend that the technology of rapid tooling which had been recognized as one of the latest method in manufacturing can help in application of customization to a product. A simple product that can signify the concept of customization had been selected before one of the methods from customization be taken and applied. After that, several types of rapid tooling strategies available in UTEM had been used to the product to verify the connection of customization and rapid tooling. This practical session is a mini case study that had been done in order to understand more and verify the finding. At the end of the laboratory sessions and based on the analysis done, the result had shown that provided on certain condition, the methods of rapid tooling used is not directly connected to customization in term of modularization.

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