SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CUSTOMIZING MACHINED PRODUCTS

• Main Author: SIU, Yu Hang Leo
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 17.06.2020
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

The present invention relates to a system and method for customizing a machined product. In one embodiment, a method for obtaining metadata of a customized product is provided, comprising: establishing, in a networked server, a standard product metadata repository for storing product data of a plurality of different types of standard products and a customized item metadata repository for storing alternative data of a customized item corresponding to each standard product; based on a type of a standard product being selected by a customer through a remote browser client, displaying via the server a 2D visualized image of the selected type of the standard product on the client, and providing one or more customized item options available for the selected type of the standard product; based on the one or more customized item options being selected by the customer through the remote browser client and for one or more post-processing item options, extracting alternative data corresponding to the selected customized items; and combining the product data of the standard product of the type selected by the customer and the extracted alternative data of the post-processing items to obtain metadata of the customized machining product.