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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Product family"”.
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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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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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Product family formation in linked-cell manufacturing system design
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2000.
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Product family architecture modularity using function and variety heuristics
… market and functional aspects of developing a product portfolio architecture. Product use based market analysis of customer needs and product features is performed to determine the set of portfolio target values. The variation in these target values among and within customers is interpreted to …
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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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Designing an optimal module-based product family and commonality for circularity
Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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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 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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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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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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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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Scenario Planning Framework & Sensitivity Analysis for New Orthopedic Sets in the Spine Platform
… Johnson & Johnson is developing a new spinal product in the Thoracolumbar space that builds on features of their legacy products in order to provide patients with high-quality pain relief. The goals of this project are twofold within the Thoracolumbar spine family of products. The first goal …
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Data trend mining for predictive systems design
… and efficient manner, with the main focus being product family design problems. Traditional data acquisition techniques that have been employed in the product design community have relied primarily on customer survey data or focus group feedback as a means of integrating customer preference …
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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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Total synthesis of oxaphenalenone natural products
Oxaphenalenone (OP) natural products are a diverse class of biologically active and structurally interesting molecules most commonly isolated from fungi. Despite their important biological properties and fascinating structures, these molecules have eluded thorough synthetic studies for over fifty …
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Predictive design analytics for optimal system design
… problems such as economical life cycle design, product family design and sustainable design. The goal of this research is the development of predictive design analytics methods for optimal systems design: Demand Trend Mining, Continuous Preference Trend Mining, Predictive Data-Driven Product …
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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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An application of Value Stream Mapping to reduce lead time and WIP in a make-to-order manufacturing line
… sales is expected in the coming years for the product family that is the focus of this research. In order to meet the takt time for the future demand, improvement on the current processes and expansion are needed. In this work, Value Stream Mapping was implemented to identify the bottleneck …
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Platform project management : optimizing product development by actively managing commonality
Product platforms have proved to be an effective strategy for designing and manufacturing products in companies that provide different products for different customer needs. By designing common parts and creating product families, these companies have increased the profitability of their product …
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