Module Property Verification – a Conceptual Framework to Perform Product Verifications at Module Level

This paper presents a conceptual framework for verifying product properties at module level, Module Property Verification (MPV). MPV is an approach to decrease overall lead-times and increase the quality of modularised products. Pre-studies indicate that companies tend to have the majority of property verifications at product level, Product Property Verification (PPV), which may results in increased costs and extended lead-times. At the same time, the implementation of a modularised product assortment brings new challenges to companies such as how to decompose product specifications into module specifications, achieving a balance between properties to verify, designing assembly systems that support MPV, and finding methods to design modules for MPV. The discussions of the proposed conceptual framework constitute a theoretical foundation for MPV based on pre-studies, literature reviews and applicable theories.