The mass customization can make customized products with the mass products efficiency, which will become mainstream manufacturing
mode in the 21 century. The design for mass customization is the most important factor in the mass customization, on the base
of extracting the excellences of the modulization design and the variant design, the article brings forward an idea of module-based
variant design. Combining with the technologies of module coding, database, case-based design and CAD, The idea has been used
in the customized design of the equipment of pushing and measuring automobile chair track, some equipments have been designed
and manufactured successfully.
Key words Mass Customization - Modulization Design - Variant Design - Module-Based Variant Design
This project is supported by the scientific development foundation of Shanghai Automobile Industry under the grant No. 0212.