Abstract
Manufacturing industry is transitioning towards a new stage called personalized and regionalized production, moving away from mass production and customization. In this stage, 3D printing or additive manufacturing technology plays a vital role. While utilizing 3D printing technology for regionalized-personalized production, appropriate supporting systems are needed to facilitate a seamless customer-producer interaction. The authors have proposed a customer-producer interaction system consisting of five system components: input, modeling, feedback, output, and delivery modules. The complexity of these components must be kept as minimal as possible to achieve the goal: seamless interaction between customer and producer. From this point of view, this paper analyzes the abovementioned customer-producer interaction system components using axiomatic design theory. The concepts of functional requirements, design parameters, coupled design, decoupled design, uncoupled design, design matrix, and design equation of the axiomatic design theory are used to analyze the system components. It is found that these concepts can identify bottlenecks in the system itself and its components. As a result, designing, constructing, implementing, and maintaining the system become more systematic and less esoteric.
