An autopoietic approach for building modular design system

Modular design process is a complicated process with multiple steps. From the system level, this paper regards the modular design process as a natural system and analyze it so as to improve the sustainability and intelligence of the modular design system and make it better adapt to the changes of the enterprises. Through analyzing the deficiencies of the modular design process, this paper studies its development demands. Based on the overall and local analysis of the modular design system and considering the modular design process from the system level, this paper puts forward autopoietic modular design model and studies the running mechanism of the autopoietic modular design system. It analyzes the problems faced by the autopoietic modular design system and researches corresponding solutions. Customized mechanical products such as special vehicles have been particularly suitable for applying this new approach.