Abstract
Mass collaborative product development (MCPD) benefits people by high innovation products with lower cost and shorter lead time due to quick development of group innovation, Internet-based customization, and prototype manufacturing. Simulation is an effective way to study the evolution process and therefore to guarantee the success of MCPD. In this paper, an agent behavior-based simulation approach of MCPD is developed, which models the MCPD process as the interactive process of design agents and the environment objects based on Complex Adaptive System (CAS) theory. Next, the structure model of design agent is proposed, and the modification and collaboration behaviors are described. Third, the agent behavior-based simulation flow of MCPD is designed. At last, simulation experiments are carried out based on an engineering case of mobile phone design. The experiment results show the following: (1) the community scale has significant influence on MCPD process; (2) the simulation process can explicitly represent the modification and collaboration behaviors of design agents; (3) the community evolution process can be observed and analyzed dynamically based on simulation data.
Highlights
Mass collaborative product development (MCPD), called open source design, is an emerging design mode in recent years
MCPD is a typical kind of open innovation, and current studies focus on formation and evolution mechanism of cluster innovation network
Management agent mainly performs behaviors like community maintenance, conflict negotiation, project subdivision, module task screening and releasing, and so on; technical core agent contributes to MCPD with behaviors of technical review and key module task development and collaboration; common development agent plays his role by product feedback and module task development and collaboration
Summary
Mass collaborative product development (MCPD), called open source design, is an emerging design mode in recent years. MCPD has been applied in industrial product design In this mode, the new product originality or CAD model is released publicly by individuals or enterprises, and a mass of OSC members will complete it collaboratively based on conceptual product. Many new ideas and products emerge constantly in some famous innovation OSC such as Open Source Hardware, Open Source Car, Prosthetics Project, and Lego Mindstorms These cases show that MCPD is influencing product development mode deeply. An agent behavior-based modeling and simulation method is proposed to study operation mechanism and evolution principles of MCPD based on theory of Complex Adaptive System (CAS).
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Free) 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
