Research On Product's Green Module Partition For Product Configuration

With the rapid development of the manufacturing, although human being get rich in material wealth, more severe resource shortages and environmental pollution problems are caused. Only in the stage of product design, environmental factors are considered to fundamentally solve this conflict, and green design is imperative. The experiences indicated only the green design combined with existing design methods could be mastered effectively by designer. Product configuration method based on modular design is a critical technology for mass customization, and the module division is the key to achieve the effective product configuration. So it is great significant to combine green design and modular partition theory.In this paper, based on the basic theory of traditional modular design, through the introduction of green design methods, the green module partition method was studied for product configuration design. By summarizing systematically the basic theory about traditional module division's method and green design, the green module partition model on product configuration was constructed. Extracted the basic modules based on functional analysis for the foundation of module partition method, then under green guidelines obtained green module initial classification scheme. To data redundancy caused in the previous phase, proposed module similarity measure and established the encoding method for the life cycle to achieve module planning for the green product configuration. Finally, on the basis of theoretic research above, an example of refrigerators is provided to illustrate the availability of the proposed approach.