3D printing, also known as additive printing technology, is a new form of customization and production (Creasey 2014).
Garber, then company CEO and now chairman, repositioned Vignette as a customization and production tool for dynamic web sites of all kinds, refocusing its marketing efforts on the lucrative corporate market.
Customization and mass production have finally bonded.
Over email, Windsor spoke about using 3D printing for the purpose of customization and mass production in art: "The value of the handmade is questioned when the artist uses their time and skill to design the 3D printed object rather than make it by hand.
In contrast, the new middle class and business owners have already transitioned to a more specialised, multivariate, intergenerational, and hierarchical consumption style such that it is crucial for Chinese manufacturers to integrate craftsmanship with information technology, commodity production with the internet, practicing individualization, customization, and specialization in production.
Not only did Toffler, writing a decade before the advent of the World Wide Web, recognize information as the basic resource of the modern economy; he also discussed concepts like knowledge workers, customization, peer production, and several other "big-think" concepts that are still providing stories for magazines like Wired, Fast Company, Business 2.0, and, indeed, The New Yorker.
Second, considering various new business models that support 3DP based product customization, consumers in such a supply chain may carry a bigger role in product design and production.
Paradigms such as mass production, mass customization and servitization are put into the context of the model.
Upon the level of product customization, production systems might be divided into two major categories including make-to-stock (MTS) and make-to-order (MTO).
Among all three levels of MC for footwear, style customization was found to cost least in design and production (Boër and Dulio 2007).
It enables niche production and thereby customization and diversification in how we schedule our daily lives, both at work and at play.
