With the deepening of the division of the rapid development of information technology,modular and fully penetrate gradually emerging socio-economic practice.It as a way of thinking,as a product design and development tools,as a means to achieve industrial integration,helps to understand the modular industry,and the linkages between socio-economic phenomenon.This leads to the main part of the first module and the modular concept,and then follow the modular industry,production,development,and the impact of clues around the operation and management,value chain,product development and technological innovation in the foreign modular reviewed the main research results and propose The modular theory of constraints and the existing deficiencies need further study.