Modeling and configuring product family based on the polychromatic sets;

The Concept Design Process of Product Family Based on Function Flow;

Modeling of product family development process in engineering iteration design;

Through the biology genetic engineering principle,it obtains the concept of the product family and the product family DNA.

Aiming at ensuring that product family improvement is based on customer needs while taking full advantage of enterprise history database,firstly,customer needs in the product family improvement are expressed.

Common product platform evaluation & decision method oriented to product family design;

Cross-domain identification of common platform oriented to product family design;

Multidimensional matter-element relative evaluation for scheme of mass customization product family design;

Research on Theory and Method of Product Family Model for Customers;

This article studies the product configuration technology based on product family model,analyzes the process of converting customers requirements to common bases,variants,and configuration rules,builds the general architecture of product family.

The paper introduces the concept of product family modeling technology under mass customization,elaborates the expression of product family model and the modeling steps,and presents a prototype system KMDFMC and it s information model.