Design for Changeability: Incorporating Change Propagation Analysis in Modular Product Platform Design

Modular Product Platform Design Modular Product Platform Design Doctoral Dissertation

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Modular Platform-based Product Family Design

In this paper we present a method for designing families of products built onto modular platforms. A product platform is the set of components and subsystems shared across multiple products offered by a firm. A modular platform is one that allows for swapping of modules to configure multiple products in a family. The problem of designing a family of products based on such a platform is formulat...

Platform Variable Identification Using Sensitivity Analysis for Product Platform Design

Optimizing modular product design for reconfigurable manufacturing

The problem of optimizing modular products in a recon®gurable manufacturing system is addressed. The problem is ®rst posed as a generalized subset selection problem where the best subsets of module instances of unknown sizes are determined by minimizing an objective function that represents a trade-off between``the quality loss due to modularization'' and the cost of recon®guration while satisf...

Developing design templates for product platform focused design

Product platforms, product families, and modular design are an evolving research area. Many of the theories and concepts proposed serve as powerful tools to industry in reducing the number of specialized components in products, reducing assembly time and accelerating the conceptual and embodiment design stages. In this paper, a structured approach to the modular design of electro-mechanical con...