Study On Product Configuration Based On Product Series Spectrum

Along with the information technology rapid development and whole world economic integration, enterprise is changing their competing ways. The traditional competing pattern takes the product as the competition foundation, and enterprises are care about the enterprise interior operation efficiency which is used to strengthen their competition. But with more intense competition day by day, the advantage based on product is losing. Now, in order to occupy the market, enterprises should develop products based on customer need. Under this condition, the existing and development of a enterprise decided by whether the enterprise can make rapid responses to the market's need.Through the spot investigation from the markets, enterprises' product development situation, the product sale and the product post-sale service on, I have discovered the enterprise is developing new products unceasingly to meet market competition, so it makes enterprises manage their data very difficultly. Also massive new products are changed from some products, and they just need to add or reduce some parts. Now enterprises eagerly need a method to sustain their to develop new product from a foundation product, so they can assemble some new products based on some foundation product and combined some parts'difference which derived from the product modification design process. When the parts are too much, the performance difference are too bigger (at the same time, there may be some restraint relations mutually), and the series products parts are borrowed frequently, how can enterprises superiorly combine different products to satisfy different market fast? If according to enterprises original design way, it not only wastes manpower, the physical resource and financial resource, depresses design efficiency, makes redundant design , but also the product may be far from with the market demand. .In order to resolve this difficulty, this paper bases on the product series spectrum configuration, discusses from the signification of new product development and product configuration, advances some models as product series spectrum model, the classification parts management model. Then it expatiates how to establish configuration regularities and product configuration management model, as well as the configuration flow based on the product series product and software model.The above theory this paper advanced has been proved by some correlation enterprises and some experts'approval. And it has been applied in the MIT-PLM3.8 software system. Now the software is developing and applying. The fact proves that, the theory this paper proposes conforms to the enterprise actual need, and it has an greater practical value for the enterprise fast response to market customer demand.