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Mass production of tooling product families via modular feature-based design to manufacturing collaboration in PLM

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Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is recognized as one of the most effective approaches for better, fast and cheaper product development and management. Mass customization is one of the key technologies in PLM to provide tailored product to end customers with the cost of mass production. Characterized by short production lead-time and dynamic customer requirements with low batch size and high variety, tooling product families are facing the challenge of high production cost. New technology with modular feature-based design to manufacturing collaboration to satisfy the needs of mass production with low cost in tooling industry is developed in this study. A corresponding prototype system is demonstrated to show the efficiency of the technology developed.

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  1. School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, #1954 Huashan Road, Shanghai, 200030, P.R. China

    X. G. Ming, J. Q. Yan & D. Z. Ma

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Design Technology Institute, National University of Singapore, 9 Engineering Drive 1, 117576, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

    W. F. Lu

  3. Product Lifecycle Management Program, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, 71 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 638075, Singapore

    B. Song

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Ming, X.G., Yan, J.Q., Lu, W.F. et al. Mass production of tooling product families via modular feature-based design to manufacturing collaboration in PLM. J Intell Manuf 18, 185–195 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-007-0012-1

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