Research And Application On Mass Customization Product Configuration Based On Artificial Neural Networks

With intense competition of market, individuation and diversity of customer demands hasbeen an inevitable trend, and due attention has been paid on Mass Customization by researchersand enterprise, whose main aim is to satisfy general customers’demands. As a bridge connectingcustomers’ individual customizable demands with enterprises’ mass production demands, masscustomization product configuration is an effective approach to achieve the same requirements ofenterprise and customs. After analyzing research works about Mass Customization ProductConfiguration and introducing ANN (Artificial Neural Networks), this paper discussed theconfiguration process of Mass Customization Product based on customers diversial requirements,then studied corresponding product Function-Structure Model, and tried to discuss how toconstrut a better configuration platform of Mass Customization Product. Finally, this paperstudied how to develop a management system facing drunk-driving enforcement using the theoryof Mass Customization Product Confirguration, and an example of Breath Alcohol Testing DataManagement System was demonstrated.After discussing the proposing, developing and merging each other of Mass Customizationand Product Configuration, the first chapter analyzed researching achievements of MassCustomization Product Configuration in the world, and introduced Artificial Neural Networksand its application in product configuration. At last, research content and whole structure of thispaper was proposed.In the second chapter, based on discussing the place of product configuration in MassCustomization, a new point of view was proposed that product configuration is a window ofMass Customization. After analyzing the general feature of customer demands, the acquirementand recognition methods of customer demands were studied. In the end, the configurationprocess of Mass Customization Product facing general customers was discussed according tocustomers’ understanding and requirements for products and its configurations.Based on structing requirement of product family modeling in Mass Customizationcircumstance, Product Function-Structure Model facing customer configuration was proposed,and product family modeling method was discussed in terms of product operating subject and itslife-cycle, and product function-structrue of wheel lock was analyzing in chapter3. According to the situation that retrieval speed of general method of Case-Based Reasoningused in product configuration will decrease as linear with the case database increasing, ANNwas introduced and was combined with the method of Case-Based Reasoning, to completeproduct configuration, thus one configuration method based on ANN. By the end of chapter4,how to develop an effective and efficient configuration platform for Mass CustomizationProduct was discussed.In chapter5, the theory of Mass Customization Product Configuration was introduced intodeveloping management system for drunk-driving enforcement. After analyzing china’sdrunk-driving enforcement situation and system demands, structure solution of the system wasproposed, and an example of breath alcohol testing data management system was demonstrated.Finally, based on summarizing research work and its shortage of this paper, research andapplication direction of Mass Customization Product Configuration was discussed.