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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"product variants"”.
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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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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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Evaluating the interaction between material substitution and part sharing in product design : a case study of automotive lightweighting
Firms seek to create a product that are both desired by consumers, and also minimize costs. These goals come into conflict, as minimizing costs leads firms toward mass production, and meeting consumer needs leads firms toward product differentiation. One strategy to resolve these conflicting goals …
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Decision Support Models For The External Variety Of Configurable Products
<p>The decision of what configurations of a product to offer is a difficult one for marketing and sales departments. In this study, we developed decision support models that can help decision makers when using operational models to manage external variety of configurable products. Our main …
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Designing effective portfolio variety using customer need discrimination thresholds
In order to develop a robust product portfolio one must first consider the needs of the market and create the ability to satisfy those needs through a good product architecture. To be successful, the link between a population's distribution of customer needs and the design of the product portfolio …
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Flexible product platforms
… pressure to develop and market diverse sets of products is increasing. To meet such market needs and reduce production cost at the same time, product platform strategy has been implemented in several different industries. Using a core set of common platform elements and variant-specific unique …
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A Study Of The Effectiveness Of Front-Of-Package Nutrition Labels In The US
… measures were the healthiness assessment of two product variants for three comfood categories, along with label liking, familiarity, ease of comprehension, purchase intention, and perceived label credibility. Additionally, participants' nutrition attitude, self-reported nutrition knowledge, and …
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Activity-Based Costing (ABC) Systems within Jordanian Industrial Companies: Factors that Facilitate, Motivate and Create Barriers to ABC Implementation
… of overhead costs, growing costs, including product costs and administrative costs, and an increasing number of product variants.<br/><br/>The interviews with financial managers/heads of cost accounting departments are consistent with questionnaire survey findings and both reveal and …
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Innovación, diferenciación y fenómenos de aglomeración: un modelo evolucionista
… imperfectamente entre las variedades de productos− y además innovan para obtener ventajas competitivas y desarrollar nuevas variedades. Las innovaciones se ven condicionadas por las externalidades de conocimiento entre las diferentes divisiones productivas de una empresa y los knowledge …
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Empirical study of the effect of stochastic variability on the performance of human-dependent flexible flow lines
… both physically and technologically, allowing production of innovative new products in a shorter lead time, to meet the 21st century market demand. Flexible flow lines for instance use flexible entities to generate multiple product variants using the same routing. However, the variability …
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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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Developing product configurators for use in a multinational industrial goods company
… (MNCs) selling low-volume high-complexity products move into markets across the globe, they develop an operations strategy to provide a product tailored to local markets, often also engineered and manufactured in that local market. As MNCs seek to provide more customization to their …
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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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On Virtual Commissioning of Manufacturing Systems: Proposals for a systematic VC simulation study methodology and a new simulation model building approach
… from significant cost constraints, shortening of product life-cycles, increasing number of product variants and economic needs for rapid time-to-market. Thus, an efficient production ramp-up including the commissioning as the crucial part, becomes more and more important for engineering companies …