The Method of Module Partition for Product Family Structure with Applications

Author

Xu, Yuqing ; Xiong, Lihua ; Wang, Yunfeng

Author_Institution

Sch. of Manage. Sci. & Eng., Shijiazhuang Univ. of Econ.

fYear

2006

fDate

21-23 June 2006

Firstpage

780

Lastpage

784

Abstract

A product family structure for mass customization is so complicated due to the diverse needs of customers. Module partition of product family structure is the principal problem for product family structure programming. This paper presents a method of module partition for product family structure based on the relativities of components. Firstly, the paper identifies the relativity from the view of customer needs, functional relativity and structural relativity. And the relativity matrices can be constructed by using a fuzzy clustering transitive closure algorithm. Then, using entropy, a best programming scheme can be selected by the evaluation of assemble and maintain. Finally, a case study along with detailed analysis is provided to illustrate the method of module partition

Keywords

product customisation; product design; customer needs; entropy; functional relativity; fuzzy clustering transitive closure algorithm; mass customization; module partition; product family structure programming; relativity matrices; structural relativity; Assembly; Clustering algorithms; Entropy; Group technology; Maintenance engineering; Mass customization; Matrix decomposition; Partitioning algorithms; Product design; Technology management; fuzzy clustering analysis; module partition; product family;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, 2006. SOLI '06. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0317-0

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0318-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOLI.2006.329089

Filename

4125681