Abstract
Product innovation is creation of new concepts to plan and realize technological and functional details in the product to satisfy market and customer needs. One of the key drivers to product innovation is reactions of the product to users’ needs. Product innovation needs a cognitive design method based on needs of variant users for the product personalization. In this paper, an open concept is introduced to provide ways to meet user’s individual need in product lifespan. It is for industries to propose product concepts based on open sources, develop and support the product on the public capability. Using the open concept in the product architecture, called open-architecture product (OAP), can improve the product personalization leading to massive product innovation. To promote this promise of the OAP, effective methods are discussed for the OAP development. This paper introduces research on OAPs using adaptable design methods to meet product personalization. Adaptable design is based on the modular structure for product adaptability using function modules and adaptable interfaces. The proposed method provides solutions for planning modules and implementation of OAPs. Methods of OAP module planning, detail and interface design are described for transformation of product concepts into physical structures. A multiple-purpose electrical car is developed in a case study to show effectiveness of the proposed method.
Highlights
Product can be defined as a technical system satisfying specific needs [1]
Brem et al analyzed more than 2.6 million patents filed from 1978 to 2013 and found that the innovation is negatively influenced by dominant design methods in industry [4]
Where i is a component number in the design matrix; VCi is the variance coefficient of technical requirements; TCRj is the correlation coefficient between the customer requirement and technical requirement; ECj is the expected requirement change; TIWi is the technical importance weight; relative importance of technical importance weight (rTIW) is the relative importance of the average of technical requirements; weighted coefficient of variances (wCOV) is the weighted coefficient of variance
Summary
Product can be defined as a technical system satisfying specific needs [1]. Product innovation is the creation of new concepts in product design and manufacture. The independence axiom of Axiomatic Design can guide the modularization of formed modules to be functional and physical uncoupled In this aspect, Chen and Liu [1] used a concept of openness to evaluate the interface for the sharing level of resources. The general adaptability is the product adaptability that is not considered initially It is evaluated by comparing the actual or full architecture of a product with its ideal form of the segregated architecture, and quantitatively measured based on characteristic parameters of interfaces and interactions. At three adaptable levels of the product, modules and parts for personalized needs, Peng proposed the design efficiency to evaluate the implementation of adaptability considering three major factors of product architecture, complexity of interface, and operation ability [34]. Adaptable Design is based on the modular structure for product adaptability using the adaptable architecture, modules and interfaces. Following parts of the paper introduce the proposed methods and applications for the design of personalized products
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