Implementation Key Technologies Of Product Collaborative Development Chain For Mass Customization

Supplier involvement in product development has become an increasingly popular method for it has positive effect in improving product development cost, quality, time and innovation, etc. The relationship among assemblers and its suppliers can be called as product collaborative development chain (PCDC). To design the optimal and innovative product by optimizing and managing product, resource and process is the core idea of PCDC. Therefore, how to organize and manage development chain effectively by market requirement and enterprise research and development strategy is the main problem of PCDC.The inherent complexity of PCDC, such as iterative design process and dynamic design environment, makes collaboration more difficult. To solve the collaborative modeling and analysis problem of PCDC, the collaborative framework of PCDC based on reference model is presented. On the top layer, the design chain meta-model is described; the entity, attribute, and relationship among the entities are defined definitely. In the middle layer, the design chain reference model and design chain model are described. On the bottom layer, the design chain example which is initialized and implemented repeatedly in the product development cycle process. According to design chain model, the implementation methodology and technologies of PCDC are presented.The coordination and collaboration of different relation are the key issues to implementing product collaborative development. The coordination mechanism of PCDC is discussed from four aspects: information mechanism, incentive mechanism, support mechanism and safe mechanism, and then the system collaboration is analyzed and optimized. The coordination capacity of PCDC means the collaborative effectiveness of enterprise inside and outside; it affects not only the internal composing relations of PCDC, but also the PCDC efficiency and R&D performance of new product. The system coordination environment and management process which are helpful for research and development performance for new product are presented, the relationship conception model between system coordination capacity and new product performance is established. Finally, a research questionnaire is designed to carry out investigations; the research date and information are sorted and analyzed statistically.The traditional modular identification factors, including product function and structure, and the outsourcing effect factors such as customers, suppliers etc, are considered in the planning process of modular product family and product platform. Based on the product platform conception and characteristic of PCDC, according to the requirement analysis, product platform design and product family design, the product platform and family planning process for inter-enterprise PCDC are analyzed elaborately. Finally, two examples of produt platform planning of modular machine tool are given to show the efficiency and effectivity of proposed method.Finally, based on ASP, SQL, a network platform of integrated management system for PCDC is developed. In this dissertation, the modulatization product platform planning system is designed, which includes the planning flow of product platform and related design and analysis function; it provides the effective analysis and optimization tool for product platform planning of PCDC.