摘要

Product platform is a good way to achieve Mass Customization. The ability of deriving variants of a product platform depends on its configuration, which ultimately is determined by voices of customer. The nature of product platform building is to identify the common parts from the object product family. According to the similarity of a set of products the product platform divided into two cases: similar function with close parameters and same function with different parameters. Based on E-QFD a process model of product platform building for the last case is put forward that start from analyzing customers' demands. And the steps according to the process model are discussed. As an illustration the model is applied to build the product platform for armed face conveyer.