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Personnel who configure systems
Configurators, also known as choice boards, design systems, toolkits, or co-design platforms, manage combinations of hardware and software components. Three primary features of configuration systems are identified by European professors Nikolaus Franke Frank T. Piller as: variations that are represented and guide users through the process; delivers visualized feedback for design variation; and integrates user choices into the product specifications, and communicates the specifications to manufacturing systems. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: ConfiguratorA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: RETRACTED ARTICLE: Improving Financial Literacy and Supporting Financial Decisions: Developing a Personalized ConfiguratorInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Deployment Guide SeriesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Product configurator impact on product qualityCited 96 times
- Go sideways: Knowledge-based configurationA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Toolkits for user innovationA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A small software application intended to assist in the configuration of a particular part of the system.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Product configurator impact on product quality
Definition and evaluation of product configurator development strategies
Cross-phase product configurator for modular buildings using kit-of-parts
Increasing the consumer-perceived benefits of a mass-customization experience through sales-configurator capabilities
An industrial-strength description logic-based configurator platform
Needs-Based Product Configurator Design for Mass Customization Using Hierarchical Attention Network
Sales configurator capabilities to avoid the product variety paradox: Construct development and validation
Mining Product Reviews for Needs-Based Product Configurator Design: A Transfer Learning-Based Approach
🆕 Influential since 2022
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Improving Financial Literacy and Supporting Financial Decisions: Developing a Personalized Configurator
DECENT: A Decentralized Configurator for Controlling Elasticity in Dynamic Edge Networks
High-resolution parametric embodied impact configurator for PV and BIPV systems
Creating a Sustainable E-Commerce Environment: The Impact of Product Configurator Interaction Design on Consumer Personalized Customization Experience
Systematic Configurator for Complexity Management in Manufacturing Systems
📚 Books worth reading
Deployment Guide SeriesIBM Redbooks · 2005
Design theoryCharles C. Lindner · 1997- 📕Product ConfiguratorsFabio Schillaci · 2017
Combinatorial designs and applicationsW. D. Wallis · 1990
Configuration SpacesFilippo Callegaro, Frederick Cohen · 2012
Twists, Tilings, and TessellationsRobert J. Lang · 2017
Finite geometries and designsPeter J. Cameron, J. W. P. Hirschfeld · 1981
MercurialBryan O'Sullivan · 2009
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