Research and Realization on the Variant Design Method of Configuration Products

Under the production mode of Mass Customization, in order to get adapt to the demands of product design caused by customers´ individual needs and rapid changes in the market, a variant design method based on product configuration was promoted. This article expounded the classification, the implementation process and the rule demands of product configuration design method for variant design. At the precondition of establishing the product configurations, the basic principles and concrete steps of implementation of variant design method for configuration products were analyzed, using the tabular layout s of article characteristics as related links. Finally, an application example of gear part was given to illustrate the variant design process and verify the feasibility of the method.