Internet-based Machine Tool For Mass Customization Method

With the emerging of mass customization, the core competence of mass customization enterprise has been shown as low cost, high efficiency to provide the customers sufficient commodity and then meet the individual needs of the customers. Whereas, a majority of national enterprises have adopted the traditional mode with mass production yet, that can not already compete with foreign advanced production mode.Based on the background of machine tool industry in China, the carving machine ft5040 was selected as the specific example to research,the principle and correlated technologies of mass customization were expound. The main content of this paper are as follows:(1)The development actuality of mass customization at home and abroad were researched,and the mass customization principle and its key technology were elaborated.(2)The architecture of machine tool production customization system was built. The function demand of system, the product family based on modularization, the system structure, the working process etc. were described in detailed, and the key technologies of realizing the customization system were expressed.(3)The modeling process of machine tool product family parts under the MC environment, the realization process of customized products, and the keystone based on the case-based reasoning technology were expounded. On this basis, the SolidWorks API and Socket communicate technology were used to realize for developing the machine tool production families.(4)The basic principle of rapid prototyping technology and characteristic were studied. Take a case of carving machine ft5040, the actual machining process of rapid prototyping technology were expressed by combing the rapid prototyping technology with MC technology.(5)On the basis of above research theories, Internet-based carving machine products customization system was realized. The feasibility and correctness of Internet-based machine tool product MC method were verified.