Mass customization is now possible because of ... Normal uses mobile apps that allow customers to upload photos of each ear at the angles and areas needed by Normal’s 3D printer.

While the era of mass customization started ten years ago, momentum has reached a critical tipping point: many web-based customization start-ups have been founded in the past year that let you ...

Customization for a mass-market item like Levi's? There seemed to be an inherent contradiction in the idea. I wanted to know more. Would it be like ordering a fast-food meal: No. 1 equals silk ...

More and more industries and companies are joining the mass-customization bandwagon. Many are niche manufacturers and start-ups, unencumbered by expensive legacy factories and supply chains.

I often receive questions about whether or not a company is a mass customizer and why the whole world isn’t moving to mass customization. Some customizers have been a bit miffed that I don’t ...

The idea of mass customization has been around for a long time—Levi Strauss offered custom jeans for 10 years starting in 1993, for example—but it never caught on. In recent years, technology ...

Customization was soon left to watch from the sidelines as mass production built economies and empires. Goodbye home-baked pies, hello Dominos! Neither was without its pros and cons. While custom ...

It was his first taste of "mass customization" — the tailoring of a product, en masse — and he was hooked. Before he knew it, LaValle, a New Jersey native who now lives in Orlando, Fla., ...