Product family design and platform-based product development: a state-of-the-art review

J Jiao, TW Simpson, Z Siddique - Journal of intelligent Manufacturing, 2007 - Springer
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 …

Product platform design and customization: Status and promise

TW Simpson - Ai Edam, 2004 - cambridge.org
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 …

Product modularity: definitions and benefits

JK Gershenson, GJ Prasad, Y Zhang - Journal of Engineering …, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Product platform design: method and application

TW Simpson, JR Maier, F Mistree - Research in engineering Design, 2001 - Springer
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 …

The concept of modularity in management studies: A literature review

D Campagnolo, A Camuffo - International journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Product modularity: measures and design methods

JK Gershenson, GJ Prasad, Y Zhang - Journal of engineering …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Architecture of product family: fundamentals and methodology

X Du, J Jiao, MM Tseng - Concurrent Engineering, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Product variety optimization under modular architecture

K Fujita - Computer-aided design, 2002 - Elsevier
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 …

A variation-based methodology for product family design

RU Nayak, W Chen… - … and Information in …, 2000 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
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 …

[图书][B] A concept exploration method for product family design

TW Simpson - 1998 - search.proquest.com
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 …