Research On Furniture Assembly Modeling Of Design For Mass Customization And Its Application

With the improvement of the living standard and the fiercely global competition, the demands for diversity products that could meet different kinds of customer needs become more and more important factor to achieve the competive advantage. Traditional mass production (MP) manner can't meet the new trend any more. The mass customization (MC) rises as a new production way which can well balance the conflicts between the mass production and the individuation. At the very heart of the mass customization lies the application of principle of the modularization, standardization and unitization.This thesis mainly focuses on the research of furniture assembly modeling technology and its implementation. The following is the main contents conducted in this thesis:Through the reserach on the product family for MC, linking the deign process of furniture, using the incidence matrix, the algorithm based on attribute constraint is proposed. Based on the characteristics, which are mutil-product, the short deveolpment time and the ivdividuation product, the relationship is created and used to the selective assembly for MC. Thus the designer can exactly select the model in a smaller range to arrive at the quick selective assembly.Using the pre-defined attribute relationship among the assembly module, an algorithm for the full-automatical assembly and semi-atuomatic assembly is proposed as well as its implementation conditions. Finally the model is assembled and the frame tree is made up of.The variant design method based on the attribute constraint and the variant concurrent design way are proposed synchronously, that can provide a feasible variant design way to the designer in the assembly process.Finally according to the furniture industry design conditions, the furniture assembly modeling system based on Pro/E is developed using the methods mentioned above and the programming tools such as: VC++, Pro/ToolKit and Pro/E, to program. Targeting to the characteristics of the furniture design, this system unites the product selective assembly, automatic assembly and the variant design, and implements and applys it. The application proves that it can reduce the product deveolpment time and improve the furniture devolpment efficiency, thus win the time and win the economic benefit.