TY - GEN
T1 - A personalized attribute determination process in a cloud-based adaptable product configurator
AU - Zheng, Pai
AU - Yu, Shiqiang
AU - Xu, Xun
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - Product configurator, as an effective tool in mapping customer requirements with company's existing product attributes, enables customers' satisfaction and companies' competitiveness in a cost-efficient way. However, with the tendency towards mass personalization, customers are not only just selecting from each company's own options in a 'configure-to-order' model, but also more actively involved in the product development process to create their own individualized products in an 'engineer-to-order' model. Besides, the existing configurators generally apply the same matching procedures to all the customers in the same sequential way, which is tedious and time consuming, especially for the complicated product configuration. Aiming to solve these problems, this paper proposes a personalized product configuration process to determine design attributes in a cloud-based environment, which is based on two assumptions: 1) products need to be adaptable enough for configuration; 2) customers prefer to develop new designs from the existing products in a tangible or visualized way other than design from scratch. The proposed process is capable of handling personalized requirements by adding new modules or upgrading design attributes in the existing product family. An illustrative example shows its advantages in customer-centric product development process.
AB - Product configurator, as an effective tool in mapping customer requirements with company's existing product attributes, enables customers' satisfaction and companies' competitiveness in a cost-efficient way. However, with the tendency towards mass personalization, customers are not only just selecting from each company's own options in a 'configure-to-order' model, but also more actively involved in the product development process to create their own individualized products in an 'engineer-to-order' model. Besides, the existing configurators generally apply the same matching procedures to all the customers in the same sequential way, which is tedious and time consuming, especially for the complicated product configuration. Aiming to solve these problems, this paper proposes a personalized product configuration process to determine design attributes in a cloud-based environment, which is based on two assumptions: 1) products need to be adaptable enough for configuration; 2) customers prefer to develop new designs from the existing products in a tangible or visualized way other than design from scratch. The proposed process is capable of handling personalized requirements by adding new modules or upgrading design attributes in the existing product family. An illustrative example shows its advantages in customer-centric product development process.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85027870833&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1115/MSEC2017-2639
DO - 10.1115/MSEC2017-2639
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85027870833
T3 - ASME 2017 12th International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, MSEC 2017 collocated with the JSME/ASME 2017 6th International Conference on Materials and Processing
BT - Manufacturing Equipment and Systems
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
T2 - ASME 2017 12th International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, MSEC 2017 collocated with the JSME/ASME 2017 6th International Conference on Materials and Processing
Y2 - 4 June 2017 through 8 June 2017
ER -