Study On Rapid Response Design Of Individual Character Products

Along with the division of market demand and the buyer's market coming into being, the consumers' demands such as multiplicity, diversity and individuation are getting considerably important. Some consumers started to customize the product. The manufacturing model has gradually transformed from large-scale producing to customized product. High cost and long time period, as a result, are both challenges for the company. Therefore, how to improve the customized producing through distinctive rapid response design while reduce cost and response time has become a key emphasis.Firstly in the present article, the author analyzes the evolving process of manufacturing model and compares its different characteristics, to prove that customization is the trend of the society. Based on the analysis and summarization of rapid response techniques, the author indicates that the key point of customization lies in the strategy to enhance the speed and quality at the design stage, and demonstrates that rapid response technique is an effective way to solve the customization problem.Secondly, based on the parameterized-model design method and the design cycle which takes client's demand as the central unit, the author comes up with a systematic framework, research content and implementing strategy of the customized rapid design as well as related key techniques and software platform. The author also introduces an evaluating system on agility of manufacturing which offers a reference performance for the rapid design capability evaluation.In order to improve the weaknesses of the product information model, the author indicates the dynamic information model and incorporates the model by the product information at different stages. Combined with the characteristics of rapid designing, the author establishes the customized product dynamic information model with the application of XML Schema. A capability demonstration is performed in the manufacturing of a mechanical presser.Following the summarization of a variety of designing methods, the author introduces the customized rapid design model which meets customer's demands through the function-action conversion and the action-structure mapping. Both top-down and bottom-up design methods are combined to carry out the bidirectional parameters transformation, and apply several reasoning methods such as CBR, RBR to the process of rapid response design. The implementing strategy and the design process are also applied to the mechanical presser.Merged with the design cycle of customized product, the author proposed a multidisciplinary design optimization platform, which systematically and sub -disciplinarily optimizes the design scheme through the establishment of multidisciplinary and systematic models.At last, the author sets up a product manufacturability evaluation system, of which design database is the informative center, and evaluates the manufacturability of the products to improve the design. The author exemplifies the evaluating process with mechanical presser.As a part, this task is sponsored by the Chinese National Programs for High Technology Research and Development (No.2007AA04ZlA2).