The Study On Collaborative Product Development For Dalian Deyou Company

With the formation of world market, the competition between enterprises have focused on how to satisfy the individual client's demands better and manufacture individually based on client's demands without impairing enterprises' benefits. This is customization, which has become the new competitive pattern between enterprises in the new century.In the mean time, many product developers put forward the concept of product platform and product family to satisfy client's demands of wide scope effectively, in order to supply more diversiform products to markets with little difference. The achievements of product platform strategy application have attracted the attention of theorists. Compared with the strategy of developing a product at one time, product family development strategy based on product platform adapts to the product mode of mass customization, and is better.Formation of world buyers' market and products' more frequent update draw manufacturers' attention to the process of product development and design, because nice process will cut down product development time enormously. Constructing the collaborative product development model based on product platform is significant.Dalian Deyou Company is a metallurgic machine manufacture enterprise. Most of the product orders come from other countries. The writer investigates the fact of this company and write this paper.Firstly, this paper expounds the research backgrounds, then investigates and analyses the development and trend of product R&D, the evolvement of collaborative product development ideas, the research and application status of collaborative product development, the means of collaborative product development, the academic and applied researches of product platform and product family theory and so on, brings forward the research contents and routes of collaborative product development model based on product platform and product family. Secondly, it states the means of collaborative product development and puts forward the establishment process of tactic alliance for small and medium metallurgic manufacture enterprise.Thirdly, it presents the establishment process of product platform, and discusses how to constitute and manage the product platform strategy. Study the design method of interactive product platform.Fourthly, it provides a modular product-architectures approach to generate and architect a product family that shares inter-changeable modules. An example showing the application of this method to the design of a family has been presented.At the end, it studies the means of collaborative product development, designs a MIS of collaborative product development for this company, and gives an example of page operation.