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 …

Currently, design for sustainability is a necessary issue in any product development process.
This situation is due to the existing and increasing pressure under industrial activities that …

Increased product variety, decreased costs, faster time to market. The motives for designing
product platforms and developing families of products have changed little these past three …

Customization and market uncertainty require increased functional and physical bandwidth
in product platforms. This paper presents a platform design process in response to such …

The rise of cloud computing is radically changing the way enterprises manage their
information technology assets. Considering the benefits of cloud computing to the …

In the lean management literature, it is mentioned that product platforms foster lean product
development and production. Although product platforms are well known for several effects …

Platforms have become an effective means of innovation in the logistics sector. However, not
all platform-based business models become a success. This research investigates how a …

Benefits of modularity are often achieved from module independence that allows for
independent development to reduce overall lead time and economies of scale due to …

Modular design has become a widely accepted developmental strategy to create products
and systems that can be easily manufactured, upgraded and maintained. In order to achieve …

Many companies design families of products based on product platforms that enable
economies of scale and scope while satisfying a variety of market applications. Product …