Research Of Product Configuration Design Under Mass Customization

As the aggravation of market competition and the diversification of customer needs, modern manufacturing enterprises, especially which produce complicated products under mass customization production mode have presented new demands for product design technology. In this paper, after the introduction and analysis of the development of customization and product configuration management at home and abroad, aiming at the actual demand for the company under the mass customization environment, the product configuration design theory and method faced to mass customization used engineering machinery as an object are carried out according to the development of the modern Information technology.This paper studies the following:(1)Researching the theories of mass customization, product configuration and product data management and analyzing the status quo for product configuration design study at home and abroad.(2)The theory of product family planning and technology is investigated, aiming at personalized, diversified characteristics of customer under mass customization, the method of building the product structure family model based on GBOM(Generic Bill of Material, GBOM) that is one of product configuration design techniques is researched, and the product structure family model based on GBOM of engineering machinery products is established.(3)The product configuration design method based on the structure-based model of GBOM and product configuration knowledge is researched, the content、presentation format and storage method of product configuration knowledge are researched. The product configuration model of the knowledge-based is established, and the product configuration process of engineering machinery is proposed for the characteristics of the engineering machinery products on the base of configuration system and the integration of PDM.(4)Using VB6.0 language with SQL Sever2000 database, based on PDM product data and configuration knowledge, engineering machinery products configuration system is developed.The content of thesis have great significance to further enrich the product configuration design theory and methods under the mass customization, through the application of these theories and methods, the fast respond for the client demanding is realized, and the efficiency and quality of engineering machinery products design work are improved.