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Global economies are causing major changes in product development today. Traditional mass production approaches cannot meet market demands for speed, cost, and quality, but most importantly the added customer requirement for additional flexibility in product offerings. At the same time, research in solid modeling techniques conducted during the last two decades has provided a new technology generation in Computer-Aided-Design (CAD). This technology generation, commonly referred to as the “third-generation” is characterized as parametric CAD. Solid models can be created in such a way that the model creation operations can be re-executed with new values for the defining parameters of the associated geometric features. This allows updating of the solid model to new customizable configurations. Drawings, tool-paths, and other documents can be associated to these models to provide a semiautomatic method for parametrically modifying all the models and documents associated with a given product. This seems to be a technology that could facilitate the need in industry for mass customization.
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Cox, J.J. (2000). “Product Templates” A Parametric Approach to Mass Customization. In: Brunet, P., Hoffmann, C.M., Roller, D. (eds) CAD Tools and Algorithms for Product Design. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04123-9_1
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