Product Configuration
since May 17, 2000, last modified May 17, 2000, Working
Definition of Configuration
"Product configuration is concerned with the specification of manaufacturing of assembly plans for specific products. The planning includes specification of the actual constituents of a product which are to be included in a planned unit of production."
The Process for Configuration Activities
There are 4 kinds of process which are related to configurations. The below figure and list show and describe the configurations respectively.
Fig 1. The process for configuration
- Modeling configuration:
design constituents of product to support the configuration of products could be assembled by the combination of predefied (also pre-validated) constituent. - Configure a product:
configure a products with options from the customer requirements. - Reconfiguration:
configures customers product after dilivery or configure a product with constituents produced independantly (eq. dilivered as Kit and assembled by dealer). - Configuration Maintenance:
manage configurations of sold products for maintenance.
Issues of Configurations
- Design modules of product for configuration
- Configuration design rule management
- Configurations as variants
- Configuration Management after Sales
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