Product Architectures Evolution and Their Open Design Strategies
Product architecture represented the arrangements and combinations of physical compo-nents.It might promote innovation of product diversity,component sharing,and meet customer's personalized needs.Open design might support customers to participate in product development,and open product architecture provided platform strategy for personalized product development.To further study the theory and applications of product architecture,the concept and effect of product architec-ture were introduced,as well as the characteristics,association and difference between single product architecture,product family architecture and open product architecture were expounded.The evolu-tion processes of product architecture and their internal motivation were analyzed from the aspects of architecture topology,architecture development strategy,architecture organization and management.The concept,connotation,function and mechanism of product architecture were reviewed.The de-pendence of customer's personalized needs,product architecture and enterprise's open innovation strategy were discussed,and then open design strategies of product architecture were explored.