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Mass Customization

Why mass customization works now: the configurator, rules, BOM and production capabilities behind profitable made-to-order personalization.

Industry · Furniture manufacturers

3D furniture configurator development

Furniture sells on choices: wood, size, finish, legs and edge, and modular ranges add parts that do not fit together. Your buyers see every choice priced, and the ones you cannot build never reach the order.

Mass Customization, Thirty Years On: The Operating Model Behind Profitable Custom Products

Mass customization was promised in 1993 and mostly failed for two decades. The constraints that broke it (no customer interface, no captured product rules, rigid production) have now fallen. Here is the operating model manufacturers use to make custom products profitable.

SBFS Team · July 20, 2026 · 7 min read