Research on integrating customization design for mechanical product

Abstract

This paper proposes an integrating rapid customization design system which combines various technologies such as Web, knowledge based engineering (KBE), engineering database and Computer Aided Design (CAD) and has been used in elevator design. The whole system is set up on the base of engineering database technology, integrating Product Data Management (PDM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) etc. It adopts Web technology to enable customers to individually customize products remo tely through the internet. The system also adopts KBE to manage and reuse product design knowledge, while combining the technology of product family modeling and technologies of feature modeling and parametric design, based on the assembly of the CAD system of Unigraphics Solutions Inc., to create a product family case library that achieves intelligent, rapid design customization.

Keywords

product family, case-based design, knowledge based engineering, Web