Research on the configuration design of the ETO product based on knowledge and thing characteristic table

Abstract

This paper constructed the configuration model of the ETO product, described the configuration knowledge based on the associative architecture matrices, and proposed the configured design method based on the knowledge and the thing characteristic table. The configuration design technique of the lift machinery based on the thing characteristic table is essentially one kind of the configuration design facing the lift machinery family or the product platform. It takes the thing characteristic table as the foundation, and controls the product's configuration design combining the data management technology of the lift machinery to restrain the designers' capriciousness, thus to reduce the component types. And under the CAD/PDM system, the lift machinery can be fast designed. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.