ABSTRACT
The elements of the polychromatic sets and the whole sets could be dyed with some different colors, which express the properties of objects and their elements. This paper builds a mass customization oriented product family model by the polychromatic sets. The unified colors are used to express product family's public properties, and individual colors express customer's individual demands. Building the relation matrix and reasoning matrix between the unified colors and individual colors, and removing the configuration plan which exist unreasonable restrictions, to find out customers common demands and individual rational demands and to achieve the configuration of product family according to the customer's demands. Due to the formalization of expression and reasoning, this method can be implemented with simple and flexible programs, finally, an example is analyzed to verify the feasibility of this method.
