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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Product families"”.
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Assessing the performance of product families
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1994.
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Commonality in complex product families : implications of divergence and lifecycle offsets
… interfaces and/or infrastructure across a product family, represents one of many potential tools for increasing corporate profitability. Industrial interest in commonality is strong, but results appear to be mixed. A rich stream of academic research has examined commonality (typically under …
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A methodology for determining engineering costs and their effects on the development of product families
The goal of most firms is to deliver products that satisfy customer needs. Delivering a variety of differentiated products allows firms to satisfy the broadest range of customers. There is, however, a fundamental tension between this product differentiation and product cost. The use of product …
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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 …
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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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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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A method for defining the requirements of a product platform
… of a company depends on its ability to produce products that satisfy the needs of a wide variety of consumers. These products have to be produced in a cost-effective manner. One approach to this problem is the creation of product families based on a platform architecture. A platform architecture …
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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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Optimizing Product Variant Placement to Satisfy Market Demand
Many companies use product families in order to offer product variants that appeal to different market segments while minimizing costs. Because the market demand is generally not uniform for all possible product variants, during the design phase a decision must be made as to which variants will be …
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Distribution network optimization in the uniform rental industry
… network flows. Complexity increases when various products move across different paths and transportation modes within one network. To address the challenges posed by this complexity, this thesis develops a mixed integer linear programming model for a uniform rental company. The company's product …
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Quantifying the value of reduced lead time and increased delivery frequency
… the Midwest, and the East for SKUs from three product families. We developed a continuous review QR inventory model to calculate the theoretical inventories for these high volume SKUs. We used this model to assess the theoretical inventory requirements for multiple scenarios entailing some form …
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Resource Management and Sourcing Strategies in Supply Chain Coordination under an Uncertain Environment
… management and sourcing strategies decide ‘which product goes where at what amount and what time’, in order to redeploy outbound/inbound resources to synchronize product flow and eventually fulfill customers’ requirements. Nowadays, the difficulties in making such decisions are brought by many …
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Commonality and Product Design
… today is that global markets demand frequent product innovation and extensive product diversification simultaneously. Considerable product development cost and a lack of long lasting and profitable product designs mandate companies to take a systematic and integrated approach to the design of …
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Developing a use case for implementing modular engineering at portfolio companies
Modular engineering allows the creation of a product architecture that prepares the product families of companies for a fast response to changes in technology and customer demand. This thesis will focus on developing and proposing a methodology for implementing modular engineering at AIP's …
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Framework for developing a co-production strategy in a vertically integrated operation
… in order to be more profitable during lower production volumes due to higher utilization rates. In order to support higher production rates moving forward and to mitigate capacity/capability constraints, Boeing will be working more closely with the supply base to implement a new strategic …
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A system complexity approach for the integration of product development and production system design
… system cannot be viewed without considering the products produced in the system. Lack of understanding in this relationship may lead to difficulties in product portfolio design and manufacturing system design. In this thesis, it is shown that by designing a manufacturing system properly, we can …
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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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Measuring The Effect Of Erratic Demandon Simulated Multi-channel Manuf
To handle uncertainties and variabilities in production demands, many manufacturing companies have adopted different strategies, such as varying quoted lead time, rejecting orders, increasing stock or inventory levels, and implementing volume flexibility. Make-to-stock (MTS) systems are designed 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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