Research On Several Problems Of Product Design And Product Data Management For Mass Customization

Along with the increasingly sharp of market competition, Customer-oriented Production becomes more and more importance. Mass Customization is an effective method to solve the contradictory between personalized customer requirement and Mass Production. Accordingly the design technology is being changed. The core is the method and technology of personalized product design that is based on the theory of combination and modularization. A quick way of product development based on product family is adopted. On the other hand, enterprises become a node in chain of economic resources in the economic globalization environment. It requires enterprises have more abilities of cooperation design, thereby changing the frame of product data management. It become the hot topics of research that the web-based PDM for product family and the quick product development by product module configuration and product module modification.Based on the facts mentioned above, the paper studies the Design for Mass Customization (DFMC), the realization of product configuration and the Web-based PDM in Mass Customization environment. The paper consists of four main parts:1 Firstly the theory of DFMC is studied from the workflow for DFMC process, the frame of product family and the frame of product design system. The paper puts forward a frame of product design system for DFMC. At last, the basic theories for DFMC are analyzed including modularity design and standardization design.2 The basic theory of product configuration is discussed. A process of product configuration is presented. The methods of product configuration are summed. Furthermore the paper puts forward a rule-based method of product configuration that is correlative with product code. Based on this method, the structure of product family and the realization process are studied.3 In the Internet environment, how to build the web-based PDM is discussed. A new web-based product data management architecture is presented. The functions and the realization method of layers of the architecture are introduced. Finally, the functions ofthe web-based PDM are analyzed, then the paper summarizes the advantage and shortcoming of the web-based PDM4 In Simto Group PDM system and Kailing Group Collaborative platform project, the realization methods of the web-based PDM, product family and product configuration are showed.