Open architecture for product adaptability: challenges in design, evaluation and implementation

市场竞争和技术发展的快速进步导致了机床、汽车和手机等工业和消费产品的更广泛的多样性和更短的寿命。如何设计出一款能够在整个生命周期内持续满足不断变化的用户需求的产品是一个挑战。与现有产品不同的是，适应性产品是可以在产品生命周期内进行升级以满足用户需求的产品。这里提出的研究将开发使用开放体系结构来提高产品适应性的方法。提出适应性产品包括三种类型的功能模块：作为产品平台的通用模块，供用户在购买产品时选择的定制模块，以及允许用户在产品生命周期内升级功能的个性化模块。可适应的产品将为用户提供开放的接口，以响应他们不断变化的需求来升级功能，而不必完全更换产品。这代表了产品实施的创新理念。

Market competition and the rapid progress of technology development have led to wider diversity and shorter lifespans for industrial and consumer products such as machine tools, cars and cell phones. It is a challenge to design a product that can continuously meet changing user needs throughout its lifespan. In contrast to existing products, an adaptable product would be one that can be upgraded to meet user needs during the lifetime of the product. The research proposed here will develop methods using open architecture to improve product adaptability. It is proposed that an adaptable product would consist of three types of functional modules: common modules that serve as product platforms, customized modules for users to select when purchasing a product, and personalized modules that allow users to upgrade functions during the lifetime of the product. Adaptable products will provide open interfaces for users to upgrade functions in response to their changing needs without having to replace the product entirely. This represents an innovative concept in product implementation.