Product Configuration Strategy Based On Product Family Similarity

To offer a large variety of products while maintaining
low costs, high speed, and high quality in a mass customization
product development environment, platform based product
development has much benefit and usefulness in many industry fields.
This paper proposes a product configuration strategy by similarity
measure, incorporating the knowledge engineering principles such as
product information model, ontology engineering, and formal concept
analysis.

• Heejung Lee

• Platform
• product family
• ontology
• formal concept analysis.

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