Background
- Product personalization trend and new technological advances in responsive manufacturing systems and mobile computing has led to a new manufacturing paradigm – Open Product Realization (OPR). This paradigm fundamentally changes the traditional mode of producer/customer interaction in product realization by allowing the participation of distributed customers in design, fabrication and assembly of products to fit their individual needs.
- Challenges exist in realizing the OPR paradigm. For example, methods for product architecting, personalization and customization linking design and manufacturing, cyber-manufacturing systems empowering customer participation in product “co-creation,” methods for rapid fabrication of user designed personalized components, and validation of product performance by considering form-fit-function together with customer experiences.
Objective
- This project aims to develop scientific principles and methods for designing cyber manufacturing systems in support of OPR for personalization involving user-in-the-loop design, responsive manufacturing, and distributed assembly.
Approach
- Method for product architecture design incorporating customer preferences based on conjoint analysis
- Cyber platform supporting product co-design
- Cyber tool of virtual product assembly simulation
- Additive manufacturing process planner for personalization
- Demonstration of the implementation of OPR by using a personalized bicycle as an example
