Increased demand for a greater variety of consumer products has forced many companies to
rethink their strategies to offer more product variants. For manufacturers, producing a variety …

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 …

Supply chains in construction, infrastructure building, ship building, factory design and
conveyor systems are operating in an engineer-to-order type of environment. Companies in …

There is a trend toward increased customization of goods to satisfy a wide range of
customers using product platforms. However, there is an erroneous notion that product …

For decomposition and integration of systems, one needs extensive knowledge of system
structure. A design structure matrix (DSM) model provides a simple, compact, and visual …

Increase of demand on product variety has pushed companies to think about offering more
and more product variants in order to take more market shares. However, product variation …

To be competitive in today's global economy, firms must deliver more products that are
viable in the marketplace for shorter times. The use of product families allows firms to meet …

Modelling a product family is critical for understanding the evolution of key design and
manufacturing features associated with products in the product through-life development …

Friction stir blind riveting is a new joining process for one-sided joining (compared with the
two-sided access required for, for example, self-piercing riveting) of aluminum alloys, which …

P= number of platform architectures pk; j= number of components for the kth component type
of the jth platform architecture q= number of scalar objective functions r= number of …