Product family design and platform-based product development has received much attention
over the last decade. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art …

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 …

The present paper presents an overview of existing research on the definition of modular
product design and its benefits. Modularity has been discussed in terms of product …

In this paper we focus on scale-based product families derived from scalable product
platforms that can be exploited from both a functional and a manufacturing standpoint to …

During the last decade, modularity has attracted the attention of numerous management
scholars, and both theoretical and empirical studies on this topic have flourished. However …

This paper presents an overview of existing research on measures of product modularity
and methods to achieve modularity in product design. Discussions of the development of …

The rationale of developing product families with respect to satisfying diverse customer
needs with reasonable costs, ie, mass customization, has been well recognized in both …

In this paper, product variety design is discussed under an optimization viewpoint. Product
variety design means the challenge to simultaneously design multiple products for achieving …

In recent years, considerable research has been directed towards the development of
methods for designing families of products. In this paper, we present a Variation-Based …

Today's competitive and highly volatile markets are redefining the way companies do
business. Companies are being faced with the challenge of providing as much variety as …