Abstract
Recently, because of the importance of the production with considering the product life cycle and the dynamic change in manufecturing paradigm from the current mass production to the sustainable production, a modular design attracts attention very much. One module of a product has the interface functionally connected to other modules on a structure, and so the interface of the modules is key concept in modular design. In this paper, authors propose the modular design supporting system based on a management of the product's joint information. The new design methodology for the modular design that generates the joint information stepwise is proposed by this system. In order to support the modular design with considering the product life cycle, this methodology shows one design scenario for the modularization by arrangement of the flows of a product design and a modular design.
