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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Product architecture"”.
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Non-functional influences on product architecture
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2001.
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A case study of product architecture
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, February 2001.
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Product architecture definition based upon customer demands
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1999.
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Strategic planning and management of product architecture
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1999.
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Automotive telematics : colliding clockspeeds and product architecture strategy
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2003.
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Sourcing by design : product architecture and the supply chain
… characterizes both ownership of and access to productive assets. Contracting between a manufacturing firm and a parts supplier is modeled using an incomplete contracting framework that synthesizes those of Grossman-Hart (1986) and Rajan-Zingales (1998). Optimal assignments of ownership and …
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The coupling of product architecture and organizational structure decisions
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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A methodology for product architecture decisions based on market segmentation
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1996.
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The relationship between organizational architecture, product architecture, and product complexity
The aircraft gas turbine product architecture and manufacturing infrastructure are used to show the importance in the relationship between the organizational architecture and product architecture. The product complexity, organizational complexity and new product development costs are compared for …
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Integration analysis of product architecture to support effective team co-location
Successful product development efforts are greatly facilitated through the use of integration analysis. Teams working on a product development project need to be brought together into clusters to address interactions between the functions or product elements they represent. This thesis presents a …
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Chains of function delivery : a role for product architecture in concept design
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1998.
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Development of a product architecture for a LED based detector for liquid chromatography
This thesis develops and describes the product architecture for a LED based detector for liquid chromatography systems. The product architecture development is discussed using a customized methodology, incorporating elements from different views on product architecture development. The market scope …
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Analyzing the effects of product architecture on technical communication in product development organizations
Effective communication in product development organizations has been identified as a key factor of product development performance. Furthermore, understanding how the development organization manages the knowledge associated with the product architecture is broadly recognized as a critical …
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Linking modularity and cost : a methodology to assess cost implications of product architecture differences to support product design
… greater variety. At the same time, increasing product variety in non-growing markets results in decreasing production volumes per model, which tends to increase costs. Modularity as a design concept has been suggested to be able reconciling these opposing effects. Most descriptions of …
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Evaluation of the Effects of Absorption Field Product Architecture Type on Effluent Dispersal and Soil Chemical Properties in a Profile-Limited Soil
… environment. The traditional absorption field product used in OWTSs is a pipe-and-gravel architecture type, which has been used for decades and is the basis for most design regulations. However, new products of differing architecture types including chambers, polystyrene-aggregate, …
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Promises and pitfalls of architectural strategy in the printer industry
… In response to rising competition, various product architecture strategies are heralded as the means to gaining, or regaining, competitive advantage in this environment. Among the most popular of these strategies are platobrm strategy, product families and parts commonality, and outsourcing. …
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Incorporating New Considerations for Platform Selection in Product Family Design: Connectivity and Security
… 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 between …
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Network analysis of technical and organizational configurations : using an alignment approach to enhance product development performance
In an attempt to improve their Product Development Processes (PDPs), many companies make considerable investments to have available cutting-edge technology such as virtual tools. While some companies have increased their productivity and time to market with them, some others have not. There seem to …
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Application of product family research and development metrics in a power systems manufacturing environment
… a broader view in developing technology for new products. Planning for the right product platform and family should not be limited to only market application for derivative products but also planning for successive generations of product platforms and derivative products. This topic explores a …
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