| Economic globalization and information industry have brought deep changes to manufacturing in its competitive environment, development patterns and operating space, the changes which are also a challenge to all enterprises . The pivotal question which should be considered by an enterprise is how to meet customer's different needs and how to adjust to the varied demand from the market in order to seek an advantageous position in the market through quickly providing the products of high quality and low cost.Mass Customization is a new production pattern which meets all the needs above. It is a pattern of designing and producing the customized products with the high efficiency and speed required for mass production after, which appears as a new thing after almost one thousand year of mass production . The motorcycle industry is now facing with the pressure from mass customization . On one hand, the complex components of a motorcycle leads to the variety of products; on the other hand, as motorcycle increase in their quantity and breeds, customer are increasingly showing their individual needs for motorcycles, which results in the increasing production in small quantity but many breeds . Therefore, the motorcycle industry is now facing with a challenge: the variety of the apparent properties of motorcycle should be shown without the variety of components causing extra cost and the delay of time . This paper works over the products configuration following the mass customization pattern in motorcycle enterprises in response to the customers' individual needs, and has designed a model for products configuration and product BOM system and also has developed some relevant software . The contribution of this paper is mainly as follows:1 , To build a designing process for product configuration towards mass customization and divide it into two parts: the process to make new products and the process to get orders. To show that the designing for product family and product models is a technical basis for the product configuration under the MS pattern.2, To creatively develop a dynamic transformative product model and a product configuration model . To rationalize the existing products and the components and achieve a valid division for the product models basing on enterprise current situation and the problems they encounter . After that, a dynamic transformative product model and a product configuration model will be developed for quick configuration. Thedynamic transformative product model meet the needs of the designing for product family while the product configuration model help to realize the orders.,3 , To create a BOM system which is consistent with the dynamic transformative product model o The current managing style of enterprises and the limitation of material codes are not enough for the management and configuration of products in computer. So, basing on the standardization of material codes, I have developed a BOM product system which will transfer manual manipulation to the management with computer.4, To develop the software for product configuration and perfect the functions of ERP, which has received some favorable effects in previous application in enterprises.
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