? Although as early as 16, People's Daily said that personalized customization led the change of manufacturing industry [1], it seems that personalized customization has not entered my life in the past two years. However, in the street, we often hear some advertisements about home improvement, and often make the slogan of whole house customization. After a careful search, I found that the home improvement industry was a customized industry from the beginning. In recent years, the home improvement industry began to transform and upgrade, and all of them played the slogan of technical customization. By combining VR technology and importing floor plans, customers can choose their own home decoration styles, and each style corresponds to the style, model, size and price of each piece of furniture, thus completing the order quickly, which is very efficient and clear.
? After all, if each piece of furniture is customized separately, the workload and cost are very huge. Because this is not only a problem of software development and business process integration, but also a problem of connecting design and manufacturing to solve customized production, which is actually the key problem of rapid customized production.
? How to seamlessly connect design and manufacturing?
? This is also our starting point at the beginning, but it is still quite difficult to complete this connection. Because the traditional production line uses a large number of mold fixtures, it is difficult to adjust quickly for various customizations. At present, digital factories pay more attention to improving production efficiency and optimizing business processes, and do not provide interfaces and upstream customized designs to achieve full access.
? Then, for this key problem, how to connect design and manufacturing, in fact, in the era of digitalization, there is research and application. It was first used in large aircraft and ships. Because most parts of these large equipment are produced and processed separately, on this basis, rapid customization can be realized without a lot of adjustments to the original manufacturing methods.
? In fact, the whole design and production are automatically connected through the interface, which cuts off the transmission link of human participation. For example, from a three-dimensional model to a physical object, it can be simply divided into five steps.
? How many people does a simple process like 3D printing need? At least 5 people, designer, customer service, craftsman, operator, courier brother. At this point, the transfer of model files is still manual. If an automatic model conversion interface is built to automatically complete the model conversion, then the customer service sister does not need to convert one by one, and the craftsman can directly get the model and start preparing for production. So in this way, the process can be reduced by one step.
? Okay, now it's four steps. In fact, many 3D printing cloud platforms have completed this step. What if the workshop 3D printer can complete automatic production according to gcode? At this time, an automatic production interface can be set up, and gcode can directly correspond to the production operation, which can further simplify the process.
? In fact, this process is just like the wireless printer used in the office. At the same time, in the local area network, you can print directly in word, and the printer downstairs will print automatically. Unfortunately, the courier brother can't see the operator brother anymore, and he may see the manipulator.
? It has been simplified a lot at this point, but what if this machine is smarter? You can identify the model by yourself, generate the machine code, and complete the manufacturing directly according to the designer's design without craftsmen. This can simplify a step.
? Through the digital manufacturing factory, craftsmen and operators have been successfully liberated. Instead of dealing with the bad design sent by Muggle designers all day and changing the repeated problems over and over again, we should study the corresponding automatic interface and automatically process the template to realize the liberation of the labor force.
? At this time, excellent design may not be able to stand the design of those muggle designers, and then excellent designers refine their design ideas and create an AI called intelligent design master. Now ordinary customers don't go to those cheap muggle designers. Just tell the intelligent design master what he wants, and the master can design it for him, and then throw it directly to the digital factory to complete the manufacturing.
? The above is just an analogy, which is an ideal state. Simply put, design intelligence is actually a set of experience templates designed to match designs according to requirements. Users choose design intelligence according to their needs, create corresponding production files, complete manufacturing production through digital factories, and finally complete delivery through logistics, and complete seamless connection of the whole process through automated interfaces to realize rapid customized production.
? Fit+ mouse customization
? Fit+ mouse customization is my own exploration project, which aims to realize mouse customization by building an automatic interface. The actual process is divided into three parts, information collection, parameter modeling and digital manufacturing.
information acquisition
? The user's corresponding hand size parameters are obtained through leapmotion.
? Open fitness laboratory [2][3]
? OpenFit is an open source software, which adopts brand-new pattern making algorithm and 3D grid driving method to customize pants according to body shape. Measure, a measuring tool driven by Kinect, is used to scan the body and collect the body data of customers. According to this book (the pattern algorithm is obtained from the cutting manual) or the draft of Center (we try the pants cutting algorithm ourselves), pants are tailored for customers.
? Endless form [4]
? The brand-new design brand from Zhangzhou Jie Digital Lab explores how computers outline the real three-dimensional world, how to "create" shapes based on different human body data, how to develop and integrate production chains, and how to make digital works better on the existing technology ... Numerous times of practice of products or art forms have accumulated rich experience and gradually approached the direction he hangs in his mind: let the creativity of computers directly participate in people's lives. Finally, endless forms were born? This groundbreaking design brand.
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? These are just some ongoing projects, with more emphasis on design. Next, connect the digital flexible devices to build a seamless workflow, which will greatly improve the management and production level, connect users and factories, and enable users to participate in and track the whole production process, real-time dialogue and feedback, and deep experience.
? Of course, it will take a long time to develop. After all the links in the whole process are mature and organically integrated, mass customization production can be truly realized, which will not only bring about the improvement of efficiency, but also the progress of society, so that the products can respond to the demands of each individual.
? Finally, with the development of artificial intelligence and digital manufacturing technology, design and manufacturing will become more and more simple and direct. AI learns and trains from the existing massive blueprints, generates massive designs according to the defined boundaries, explores all possible solutions, and realizes all possible manufacturing methods. All imaginable objects can be manufactured and assembled at the atomic level. Will a universal manufacturing machine be born to meet all human needs? At that time, mankind must have conquered the vast starry sky.
related data
[1] People's Daily Online-Personalized customization leads the manufacturing revolution
[2] Open fitness laboratory
[3] Aalab, Algorithm Art Lab-Do you want to try socks designed by processing? And pants
[4] Endless form-Today, 65,438+000 chairs "created" by computers have arrived at Shanghai Exhibition Center.