Product family knowledge modeling for mass customization

The core of mass customization can provide the personalized product for customer by deducing the inner diversification of enterprise. It requires the reusing of information and resource for product life cycle based on product family knowledge model. This paper presented a two-level product family knowledge model. The first level is the product architecture that models the product, process and team information structure. Meanwhile the mapping among them is expressed by the design structure matrix and domain mapping matrix. The other level is the module design basing on the parametric technology. The basic framework in the paper provided an effective method of product data management for product life cycle.