Value chain and stakeholder‐driven product platform design

Modular Product Platform Design Modular Product Platform Design Doctoral Dissertation

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Product Family Strategy and Platform Design Optimzation

1 Abstract Numerous manufacturing industries are seeking ways to reduce manufacturing costs and development times of product families through implementation of platform strategies. Deploying several variants from a single product platform can yield considerable savings in time, cost and maximize profits. It is, however, generally accepted that product platforms impose design and component reuse...

Platform Variable Identification Using Sensitivity Analysis for Product Platform Design

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...

Optimal platform investment for product family design

Existing models for developing modular product families based on a common platform are either too engineering oriented or too marketing centric. In this paper, we propose an intermediate modeling ground that bridges this gap by simultaneously considering essential concepts from engineering and marketing to construct an alternative model for platform-based product families. In this model, each v...