The product architecture has a significant influence on all phases of the product life cycle.
Many literature sources claim modular product design offers a large range of advantages for …

Increased demand for a greater variety of products has forced many companies to rethink
their strategies to offer more product variants without sacrificing production efficiency. In this …

A great challenge facing industry today is managing variety throughout the entire products
life cycle. Drivers of products variety, its benefits, pre-requisites and associated complexity …

A platform is commonly used as a basis for generating a number of derivative products, after
which it is replaced by a new platform. For some companies, a more viable approach is to …

With intense global competition, many manufacturing companies pursue a platform strategy
to develop diverse products belonging to a family, while utilizing available manufacturing …

Abstract This paper uses Design Science Research to build a method, entitled Market-
Driven Modularity (MDM), intended to conceptually design modular product family structures …

Elements, including market demand, client requirements, and technological advancement of
a product family in the current global competition, greatly influence the evolution of a product …

Modular system architectures are increasingly important to manufacturers as they seek to
decrease system development lead time and as customers have come to expect systems …

In recent years, the air transport market has experienced strong growth, increasing the
demand for new civil aircraft, challenging the actual production rate of aerospace industries …

A significant potential of the digital revolution has not been fully realized. A contextual shift
has to take place to build institutions that would harness the power of a fundamental aspect …