Design-to-order performance equipment

摘要

Customization systems and methods are described in relation to performance devices and apparatus using a closed-loop feedback process for exploration, design and improvement of devices including performance devices. Crowdsourced knowledge bases, iterative improvements and centralized statistical, semantical and other technical analyses are employed to modify a baseline design. A baseline model defining modifications to a base device necessary to obtain a master device including modifications calculated to improve performance of the master device over the base device. Manufacturing instructions including CNC code can be produced and used to causes the production machine to manufacture the customized device. A design-to-order system is described as having of a simplified user interface, a queuing system, CAD/CAM capability and a repository of stored baseline models.

主权项

1. A method for customizing a performance device, the method being implemented in a computer system including one or more physical processors and storage media storing machine-readable instructions, the method comprising:
providing a baseline model defining a master device; receiving at least one change to a parameter of the baseline model from a customer; responsive to the at least one changed parameter, modifying a plurality of other parameters in the baseline model to obtain a customized version of the master device; providing the baseline model to a community of users including providing metadata to the community of users, the metadata including one or more of a technical analysis, a hydrodynamic flow analysis, a computational fluid dynamics analysis, or a finite element analysis, and the provided metadata including a recommendation derived from statistical analysis of sets of historic data provided by users, wherein certain of the community of users create other customized devices from the baseline model; and generating manufacturing instructions, the instructions when executed by an automated production machine, causes the production machine to manufacture the customized version of the master device.