In an effort to improve customization for today's highly competitive global marketplace, many
companies are utilizing product families and platform-based product development to …

Interest in mass customization (MC) is increasing in both industry and academia. Academic
research on MC implementation guidelines (IGs) has, however, lagged behind other …

The emergence and development of constructal theory, which has been a new discipline
branch to research sorts of structures in nature and engineering, are reviewed. The core of …

Modular product platforms have been shown to provide substantial cost and time savings
while still allowing companies to offer a variety of products. As a result, a multitude of product …

Mass customization (MC), an organization's ability to provide customized products and
services that fulfil each customer's idiosyncratic needs without considerable trade-offs in …

Tree-shaped networks are now being considered as small-scale architectures for high-
densities in electronics cooling and fuel cells design. This paper documents the optimization …

Composite decisions consist of interconnected parts or subdecisions and correspond to a
composite (composable, modular, decomposable) system. The composite decision …

In this paper we develop flow architectures for “vascularizing” smart materials that have self-
healing capabilities. The flow architectures are configured as two trees matched canopy to …

With a highly fragmented market and increased competition, platform-based product family
design is recognised as an effective method for constructing a product line that satisfies …

This paper discusses the concepts associated with a new methodology, design for
adaptation (DFAD), under development for achieving advanced sustainable designs. The …