Individual Coffee Maker Design Using Graph-Based Design Languages

Abstract

Graph-based design languages are used in this work to implement individualized mass customization. Using coffee machines as examples, the individualization of the product architecture and geometry is demonstrated. Combined with a user interface, a ``coffee maker language{''} is shown to automate the design process including topological and parametric product variations by user inputs. The automatically generated processing result is an ``individualized{''} creation of a digital coffee maker design which satisfies all implemented geometrical, physical and functional constraints.