Research Of Online Product Customization System Based On MC And PDM

With the fast development of social economy, enterprises are faced with the contradiction between more complex product structure and reduction of product lifecycle. Manufacturing is transferring from mass production to mass customization (MC) production for helping enterprises to make low cost and individualized product that satisfy customers and to advance their competitive abilities. Moreover, building an online product customization system by using advanced network and product data management (PDM) technology can further achieve this purpose through enhancing the contact between enterprises and customers and managing product data effectively. Therefore, based on the actuality analysis of MC production and online customization system, the thesis adopts a method that combines theory research with practice to study the online product customization way and product configuration technology theoretically and then a PDM-based online product customization system facing to MC is proposed.The system mainly adopts three-layered network architecture and integrates enterprise PDM system to solve the problem of the complexity of product data. Besides, it uses ideas of customer relationship management (CRM) strategy and combines with the product configuration technology in order to finally achieve online product customization focused on customers. Hereinto, product configuration is a key technology to successfully actualize the system. This thesis builds an effective configuration method based on product modularized design. Meanwhile, saving the product group structure model, obtained from the result of product modularization, to PDM system will support the online configuration of product. After the establishment of system architecture and customization methods, the functional layer of the system is framed and the design of pages and dynamic web pages, the connection and design of data bases and the online browse of three-dimensional documents are realized. Combined with automobile products, the system privilege management, the foreground and background management modules are developed.The system facing to individualization of customers is of the characteristics of expansibility, dispersivity, integrated ability and visibility and owns friendly man-machine interaction interface which is easy to handle and can lead users to customize individualized products quickly. It saves cost, increases the design efficiency and shortens the development cycle for enterprises and has practical significances for their further achievement of MC.