number: 002-0302) The article deals with the decision problem faced when a firm is producing items with different life cycles, and/or in different cycle phases. Then, deciding on a Manufacturing Strategy (MS) becomes especially difficult, because usually different manufacturing processes are considered optimum for different products. An analysis of the suitable manufacturing process can result ...

This paper discusses the incorporation of modularization into mechanical designs. The research uses a definition of modularity that incorporates the potential of modularity based not only on the form/function structure of a product but also life-cycle processes such as manufacture, assembly, service, and recycling. Modularization, due to the functional independence it creates, has been called t...

This study presents an introduction to mass customization in the product life cycle—the goal of mass customization, mass customization configurations, and new customer integration techniques, modular design techniques, flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs), and supply chain management methods. The study reviews three selected books and twenty-one selected papers—early papers that describe the g...

In this paper an innovative approach is presented, which enables modeling and exchanging information about the uncertainty of product properties along the product life cycle providing improvement for product development. A system which is called “COPE” (Collaborative Ontology-based Property Engineering System) is proposed, which uses the advantages of an ontologybased approach. The proposed sys...

Today a lot of small, medium and also large companies have a project organizational setup. This means that the major part of the development activities are gathered thru the conduction of a project that at its completion will deliver a new version of the product. In this situation managing versions and resources for some of the product components (subsystems) could be a problem or performed in ...

Abstract Digital Twins are virtual representations of a product-service-instance and, as technology, represent an important part the realization Industry 4.0. They manage data associat-ed product instance and can also have functions for simulation to achieve cost resource savings while simultaneously increasing quality. In this paper, need action implementation systematic approach returning int...

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As technology increases and performance requirements continually tighten, the cost and required precision of assemblies increase as well. There exists a strong need for increased attention to tolerance design to enable high-precision assemblies to be manufactured at lower cost. For automotive and aircraft industries, the tolerancing process has become an important issue in product and process d...