Research On Product Configuration Based On The Individual Customization

Individual Customization is considered as one of the most important production mode in 21st century. As a primary theoretical basis to carry out individual customization, product configuration has been paid more and more attention to by many enterprises. Undoubtedly, the research on configuration theory and the implement method has great practical significance.In the paper, on the basis of the research status and realizing methods of Individual Customization and Product Configuration, a systematical and thorough research on Product Configuration for Individual Customization was carried out with the strategy of "information expression + theory implementation+ application verification". In order to support the whole process of Individual Customization, the information model is divided into function structure model facing concept design phase, structure configuration model facing technology design phase and model of parts and units facing construction design phase. Based on the theory of this information model, the concepts of customer requisite domain and feature expressive domain are introduced, which provides the method for the transformation from the customer's requirements to product's structure. A kind of layered product configuration model is proposed, which takes on the mapping frame(Customer Requisite Domain to Functional Composing Domain to Theory Expression Domain to Structural Configuration Domain to Feature Expression Domain). In the process of configuration, This paper introduced the theory of CBR and using the NN matching function to calculate the similarity among similar cases, so the efficiency increased greatly. At last, the whole frame of the virtual customization system has been founded based on the Web in this paper. Taking the cone gear customization as an example improved that the configuration method can be used to configure conveniently the individual products and meet the demands of client and mass customization.