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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Modular Product"”.
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Sourcing strategy for power electronics derived from modular product structure
… analysis. The technical analysis, including product architecture and key modules/components research and interdependency analysis, explored modular product structure, and provided a better technical understanding. Economic value analysis evaluated the economic value brought about by component …
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A Data Clustering Approach to Support Modular Product Family Design
Product Platform Planning is an emerging philosophy that calls for the planned development of families of related products. It is markedly different from the traditional product development process and relatively new in engineering design. Product families and platforms can offer a multitude of …
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Tools and Metrics for Evaluating Modular Product Concepts Based on Strategic Objectives
The design of modular products has recently become the focus of significant research in the area of design theory and methodology. This focus is the result of increased awareness of the potential power of modularity to achieve certain product objectives. However, there continues to be a gap between …
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Products and organizations, mirrors in a funhouse: three essays on the mirroring hypothesis
Much of the contemporary management literature on modularity implicitly assumes that increased product modularity is associated with advantageous increases in organizational modularity. Known as the “mirroring hypothesis,” this postulated relationship is the basis of prescriptions in favor of …
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Flexible manufacturing equipment design based on a mass customization strategy
… manner. The days of mass producing standardized products for homogeneous markets for long periods of time are quickly fading from memory. Instead, a large variety of products must be produced at the same efficiencies formerly associated with mass production. In an effort to meet this challenge, …
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Using the Internet to solicit customer design input in order to support mass customization through modular designs
… been a growing movement away from traditional product development and manufacturing associated with mass production to entirely new processes required to support Mass Customization. Mass customization is both a product development and manufacturing process that is being mandated by increasingly …