• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.31 no.12
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• pp.1710-1720
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• 2007

Environmental changes, including intensive international competition, unpredictable consumer demand, and market trends of variety and short product life cycles, have compelled the U. S. textiles and apparel industry to focus increasingly on the consumer as a way to meet these challenges. The industry began expanding into mass customization that used information technology, flexible processes, and organizational structures to deliver a wide range of products and services that met specific needs of individual customers but on a mass scale. This paper presents cases of leading-edge technology application on customization and breakthrough concepts in personalization, with a view to raising the level of debate on these issues to its highest level.

• Journal of the military operations research society of Korea
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.78-91
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• 2006

Recently mass customization has become a new paradigm in the global market to satisfy both the diversified demands of customers but also the efficiency of the mass production system. In this paper, mass customization is embodied by a new product development method with which various product families are produced from standard "product platform" developed from historical data. The product platform, the key concept of this proposed method, is significantly efficient as a solution to the customer demand of high variety and small quantity products. The proposed method is applied to build the platform family of naval ships, utilizing the concept of "Group Technology". In addition, cost effectiveness of the proposed method is analyzed and the applicable range of requirement conditions are presented. In conclusion, some remarkable effects such as reduction in production cost and development time are expected by employing this method to the procurement process of the naval ships.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.119-129
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• 2014

The renowned Pareto rule of 80/20 has been challenged in the electronic marketplace with the emergence of long tail economy. Mass customization on top of the Internet infrastructure is expected to explain these changes of product concentration. In this paper, we empirically analyzed the micro-transactional data of a Groupon-like daily deal web site to identify the changes of product and customer concentration. The results show the long tail pattern aligned with the previous research on the e-commerce literature on the long tail. We find that the notification setting on email or SMS about daily deal influences the patterns of sales concentration. The information through email and SMS is expected to enable consumers to know about daily bargains and purchase the coupons eventually. However, the email notification for niche products results in the decreased sales while the SMS notification for overall product promotes overall products.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.1187-1192
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• 2003

The computer is an important tool to design an engineering system and CAD systems are widely used for various design practice. To meet the market requirements, the old mass production system is being changed into the mass customization system. As for CAD systems, it is increasingly required to extend, automate, and customize a wide range of functionality. This article describes the state-of-the-art of the principal technologies for customizing CAD systems. And we have implemented an application that enables the parametric design by directly inputting numerical values of parameters for a CAD model. Based on this application, we have developed another system that makes it possible sharing of part family data between SolidEdge and Pro/Engineer. Through customization of CAD systems, it is possible to improve the product quality using external knowledge-based systems or to integrate with external system such as CAE tools. This paper can be a guide for engineering designers who want to customize CAD systems.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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• v.58 no.4
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• pp.58-71
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• 2008

The demand for personalized products and service of apparel product has increased dramatically. In order to acquire a personalized apparel product, consumers may have to sacrifice more expense or time. The purpose of this study was to investigate various personalization strategies in apparel business and to identify antecedents that influence the process. Clothing involvement and two price related variables (clothing expense and willingness to pay more) were included in the study as antecedents. Four personalization strategies were included in the study: design selection, size customization, in-store service and promotion personalization. For an empirical study, a conceptual model was designed and research questionnaire was developed. A measure of personalization of apparel shopping was developed based on existing scale items of prior research and a pilot study. Data from 766 men and women in their twenties to forties were used for statistical analysis. Structural Equation Modeling was used for the data analysis. Results indicated that the conceptual model was a good fit to data. Structural paths indicated that there was significant influence of clothing involvement on design selection and sales promotion personalization strategies. Involved consumers spent more on chothing products and were likely to pay more on personalized products and services. Monthly clothing expense influenced size customization significantly. It also had negative influence on service related personalization strategies. Consumers were willing to pay more when it comes to product related personalization strategies such as design and size but not necessarily to service related strategies. This study was an attempt to provide an in-depth and synthesized approach on consumer attitudes toward personalization of apparel products.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.19-25
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• 2021

This study contains the results obtained after two and a half years of developing a knitting customization website using a knitting machine. Recently in the fashion world, various services using customization are being provided, and devices that users can design directly using knitting machines are being developed. However the existing website for knitting machine does not provide a certain usability or layout, so it is difficult for users to use open source and custom design. Therefore, this study was conducted for the purpose of developing a website that provides ease of use to users who will use the knitting customizing service using a knitting machine. As a research method, the first usability evaluation was conducted by synthesizing the studies conducted for the knit customization website development work. As a result of the study, found the problems of the initial custom screen and the initial output screen were found, and convenience, intuition, and readability were improved. Secondary usability evaluation was conducted on the modified website and it was confirmed that the problem was corrected. Through the website finally derived from this study, it is expected that the new platform in the domestic knit market will be popularized and the usability of the custom website will be improved.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.56-59
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• 1998

The rapid diffusion of the Internet and the World Wide Web is facilitating greater interaction - and potential opportunities for customization - between vendors and customers. For instance, virtual reality and multimedia technologies allow consumers to envision their designed products. The increasing pace of the business environment highlights the need to deploy intelligent systems in all stages of product design and production planning. This paper deals with a system to generate an appropriate product design by adapting customer preferences and constraints using the case based reasoning methodology. Moreover, intelligent agents are integrated with virtual reality technology to provide a friendly user interface.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.1361-1364
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• 2012

현대 산업 발전에 따라 대량 생산 체제에서 소비자 개별 주문 요건을 반영하여 생산하는 대량맞춤 생산(Mass Customization) 체제로 변화해가고 있다. 이런 대량맞춤 생산 체제의 제품구성(Product Configuration) 시에 나타나는 CSP(Constraint Satisfaction Problem) 해결 방법론을 제시하고 있다. 기존 방법에서는 복잡 다양한 제약조건을 수학적으로 표현하여 제약 조건 검사에서 소요시간과 검색 공간을 최소화 할 수 있는 알고리즘이 제시했다. 그런데 소비자의 주문 요건들이 빠르게 변화되고 복잡 다양 해지고 있다. 그래서 대상 모델 및 제약조건이 변경이 되었을 경우 기존 방법에서 제시하고 있는 CSP 해결에서는 수정 관리 하기가 쉽지 않고 확장성이 낮다. 본 연구에서는 룰 기반 모델링으로 CSP 문제 해결 프로세스 정립을 하여 관리의 편리성을 제공하고 확장성을 향상시킨다.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.81-95
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• 2016

Software export is very important for developing the domain software industry. Up to now, the study related in this issue is not enough even if exports are not activated. In our study, we treated and analyzed the three SME cases that have each successful record in recent years focusing to sales channels establishment and product localization. This study was done by interviewing the marketing directors mainly, and applied email exchanges, phones, and document analyses. Some implications can be addressed for the potential SME software exports. In the perspectives of sales channels building, the trust for product and firm itself is needed to have a good offshore partners. These are required to make the good relationship with partners, brand value's diffusion, and technical competency. As for product localization, the customization is important to meet the needs for local users effectively. So it is desirable to accept the advisory suggestions from the local consulting experts or representative customers. And the joint export strategy using the platform by linking some related products is effective for SME's software product's export.

• Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.133-147
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• 2012

Asia is becoming a stronghold for innovation careers along with its resurgence in economic, political, and cultural arenas. This transformation happened on the backdrop of growing enrolments in higher education, increasing investments in scientific research & innovation, and innovation supportive policy measures by several Asian countries. Research and Development (R&D) and product customization centres of multinational corporations (MNCs) sited in emerging nations are also instrumental in this transformation.