Studies On The Design Technology Of Cupboard Product Family Based On Mass Customization

In order to improve the responsiveness of the enterprises for the market, mass customizationmust be adopted for the great systematic research on cupboard to provide personalized service forusers, thus giving full play to the advantages of enterprise information resources as well as sharingthe resources and experience of cupboard development. Designing and manufacturing productswhich can satisfy the users' requirement will definitely represent the development trend ofcupboard in the future, therefore, combined with the "agile manufacturing technology of woodand bamboo products modulus customization" of863project, against the current circumstances ofthe domestic cupboard industry coupled with the users' demand, key technologies and theoriesinvolved in the product family design are studied, developed and tackled, with the results shownas follows.(1) The workflow and implementation of digital design system of cupboard product familyare proposedOn the basis of analyzing and quantifying users' demand, we study and establish customdesign of cupboard and its configuration architecture. Meanwhile, quite a few steps includingmaking survey, extracting attribute of users' demand, transforming the information of users'demand and studying the configuration skills, etc, are carried out. Finally, the workflow andimplementation of its digital design system are proposed.(2) The research methods of cupboard are presentedBased on the psychology and design theory of users' experience, the research methods ofcupboard are presented, including, home interviews with users, shooting video, questionnaires andso on, which can be used to study the operation process of users on the cupboard and build thetask models and mental models of cupboardï¼› taking full account of the different demands ofexpert users, experienced users, ordinary users, the questionnaires should be designed from theperspective of lifestyle, the status of kitchen, etc, and then the data distribution results should beanalyzed, which can lay a foundation for the subsequent step---extracting the attribute of users'demand.(3)The dynamic users' demand template is buildBased on the basic architecture of users' static demand for cupboard products, the dynamicusers' demand template is build to achieve the standard description on the users' demandï¼› theimproved method of quality function deployment and analytic hierarchy process realizes thetransformation from the initial demand to the configuration and design parameters, which has been verified using specific cases. A functional unit for quality function deployment is developedwith VB software.(4) The subdivision of cupboard users is achievedThe definition of the cupboard family is presented, coupled with its constructing methodï¼›the conjoint analysis and hierarchical clustering methods are employed to achieve the subdivisionof cupboard users. A kind of user-oriented planning method for cupboard product family isestablished in this paper, which then gets validated and analyzed.(5) The theory framework of cupboard design is built based on the configuration of thecupboard productsCombined with cupboard design features, the theory framework of cupboard design is builtbased on the configuration of the cupboard productsï¼› configuration methods of cupboardproducts and related algorithms are provided based on case reasoningï¼› the framework ofevaluation index system for configuration results is established, and related methods evaluatingthe configuration results are proposed.