Collaborative Product Design for Product Customization: An Industrial Case of Fashion Product

This paper proposes a new platform of collaborative product design for product customization. The proposed platform of the collaborative product design process is scoped in internal enterprise level, which includes customers, designers, engineers, and technologists into a single platform. The platform can generate a design solution to the design objective. The collaborative design platform was developed in term of an interactive design on a Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software. In the platform, customer can input the design requirements, designer can monitor the shape generation and improve the resulting design, engineer can define the manufacturing conditions, and technologist can perform the optimization of design and process parameters. At the end of the collaborative design process, the design solution, therefore, is generated in terms of a three-dimensional (3D) model, which is directly integrated to the manufacturing process in line, until obtaining the physical product. This platform has been implemented in a jewelry product enterprise, and the result indicates that it can reduce time in design and manufacturing process approximately 66%.