With the improvement of people’s living standard, mass customization production model has been the trend of the furniture industry. A model of furniture product design and assembly for customization is proposed. It can decompose customers’ needs and transform them into homologous modules set in the structure tree. This process will not only save manpower and resources, but also improve enterpri...

Product lifecycle management (PLM) is a concept that aims at integrating the various processes and stages involved during a typical product lifecycle for the extended enterprise. PLM technologies endeavor to offer a powerful collaborative platform to support distributed product development. In order to maintain the integrity of product definition data throughout the life of the product, and to ...

Product family configuration design has been recognized as a promising dimension for implementing the assembly-to-order production strategy under mass customization environments. With a family of configuration design alternatives derived from a configuration space, product family configuration design evaluation is usually performed to select the “best” configuration design that meets customer v...

Complex systems and products evolve over years to meet new requirements, while applying tried and tested technology. To maximise the reuse of components through the life span, companies need to plan for the changes that they can anticipate, and facilitate accommodation of such changes in the original architecture and design of the system. Methods such as design for flexibility or design for cha...

Ceramic is one of the highly competitive products in Thailand. Many Thai ceramic companies are attempting to know the customer needs and perceptions for making favorite products. To know customer needs is the target of designers and to develop a product that must satisfy customers. This research is applied Kansei Engineering (KE) and Data Mining (DM) into the customer driven product design proc...