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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Product Family Design"”.
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Models for platform-based product family design
Platform-based product families have been an effective way for companies to offer increased variety into markets, while containing the resulting complexity of developing large numbers of products. A product platform is the set of resources - components, processes, technologies, and knowledge - that …
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Multi-platform strategy and product family design
The application of product families and platforms has gained attention as a promising approach to achieving organizational objectives that provide customers with mass customized products while allowing for significant savings from commonality and reuse strategies. While the single-platform strategy …
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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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Incorporating New Considerations for Platform Selection in Product Family Design: Connectivity and Security
… as criteria to select the platform for a family of products (components to share) while optimizing the component arrangement of the individual products. The first part introduces a framework to find the optimal set of components to share across multiple products based on the connectivity …
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Design analytics for product family optimization
… manufacturing companies build a large variety of products to satisfy various customer needs. Although the strategy called mass customization enables the company to increase sales in different markets, they may lose the efficiency of mass production. To tackle the challenge, companies have …
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Design of a second life product family from the perspective of the remanufacturing agent
… a method of solving a newly posed Second Life Product Family Design problem. This is unique in that the architecture of the product is not speci ed to be identical to one of the recaptured products, rather it is determined through optimization. The problem is framed using Conjoint Analysis and …
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Predictive design analytics for optimal system design
“Predictive Design Analytics” proposed by this dissertation is a new paradigm to enable design engineers to extract important patterns from large-scale data characterized by four dimensions (volume, variety, velocity and veracity), and combine the extracted knowledge and its trend with complex …
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Data trend mining for predictive systems design
… this research is to propose a data mining based design framework that can be used to solve complex systems design problems in a timely and efficient manner, with the main focus being product family design problems. Traditional data acquisition techniques that have been employed in the product …
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An Approach to Decision Support for Strategic Redesign
… little attention to the fact that most design activities are actually more like redesign. These activities are characterized by an attempt to leverage experience, knowledge, and the capital that a company has already invested into existing engineering systems. In this dissertation, it is …
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Harnessing Product Complexity: An Integrative Approach
… are faced with pressure to increase variety in product offerings. While increasing variety can help increase market share and sales growth, the costs of doing so can be significant. Ultimately, variety causes complexity in products and processes to soar, which negatively impacts product …