Customer Requirement Translation and Product Configuration Based on Modular Product Family

Firstly, this paper establishes the modular structure of product family and then decomposes it into generic modules. Secondly, the module model represented by attribute variable is formated for each generic module. According to quality function deployment, the mapping of customer requirements to module attributes is constructed, which can determinate the attribute value and weight of module model. Thirdly, by searching the candidate set of modules which best satisfy customer requirements, the candidate modules are combined efficiently subjecting to some constraints in the structure of modular product family from down to top.