System and method of designing a product or a module therein based on experiences of modular designs accumulated previously

摘要

A system of designing a product having a predetermined number of modules or a module therein based on experiences of modular designs accumulated previously by the system is disclosed, comprising a designer operating interface, a component database, a product module database, a modular imitation and arrangement module and a design adjustment module. A method of designing a product having a predetermined number of modules or a module therein based on experiences of modular designs accumulated previously is also disclosed, comprising the steps of providing specifications of the product, determining if there is an imitable module in a product module database with respect to each of the predetermined number of modules of the product, acquiring and arranging information associated with a portion of the predetemined number of modules of the product that is determined as yes as a portion of selected information or acquiring and modifying or re-designing the information associated with the other portion of the predetermined number of modules of the product that is determined as no as the other portion of the selected information, storing the modified or re-designed information and simulating by a computer the selected information. With the experiences of modular designs accumulated in the system, a design time for each of successive product design tasks are reduced since some arrangement and design jobs of components and modules may be skipped.