Product Family Modeling and Optimization Driven by Customer Requirements

One key aspect to improve networked product customization efficiency is to establish optimized and integrated product family models. Based on analysis of the composition of product family, a function and structure skeleton model (FS-SKM) is presented to reduce modeling workload. To quickly model FSSKM on product resources in distributive enterprises, an intelligent modeling algorithm is presented. Due to dynamic varieties of customer requirements, a dynamic clustering algorithm is presented for persistent implementation of rapid product customization. Finally, Paving Machinery Product is used as a study case to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches.