... in developing products that incur minimum variety costs. The proposed tools incorporate quantitative indices and qualitative design charts. Examples from electronics and automotive industries illustrate the utility of the tools. commonality modularity late-point differentiation supply chain design...

... retirement costs and scrap through the appropriate selection of design modularity, material selection and disassembly strategy. Our method focuses on the dismantling process associated with multiple product families and generations and incorporates changes in recycling process technology capabilities...

... Abstract Product architecture can have a significant impact on a product’s life-cycle and its development time. Modular product architecture allows for easy disassembly upon product retirement and allows for wide product variety. In a small company, the team structure of the company can...

... according to function and product variety heuristics into function clusters that anticipate product modules. This candidate modularity can then be used to deliver product variety across the product portfolio given functional constraints. A portfolio of xerographic products is used as the working example...

... platform and family modularity information flow coupling Proceedings of DETC2000 2000 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences September 10- 13, 2000, Baltimore, MD DETC2000 I DFM-14021 DESIGN FOR VARIETY: A METHODOLOGY FOR DEVELOPING PRODUCT PLATFORM ARCHITECTURES Mark V. Martin Kosuke Ishii...

.... It is observed that the algorithm manages to find an acceptable solution, allowing the commonality of one component in both end products and still maintaining a good structural strength and assemblability. Design for assembly modularity discrete design optimization structural optimization genetic...

... Abstract Modular product design allows the designer to control the degree to which changes in requirements affect the product. By promoting interchangeability, modularity also gives designers more flexibility, with decreased cycle time, to meet changing requirements. Specific advantages...

... Abstract The design of modular products, or modular-product design, is a powerful design strategy that can boost the competitive edge of a company that employs its benefits. We introduce in this paper an approach for managing the influence of product modularity during concept selection...

... before the launch of a new product. Modularization is one of the most critical product design and supply chain design decisions because it will determine the assembly sequence and potential suppliers of the product in the supply chain execution. However, the impact of modularity level on supply chain...

... 21 03 2011 The offer of tailored products is a key factor to satisfy specific customer needs in the current competitive market. Modular products can easily support customization in a short time. Design process, in this case, can be regarded as a configuration task where solution...

... 30 07 2010 Companies applying mass customization paradigm regard the design process as a configuration task where the solution is achieved through the extraction of a new instance from a modular product structure. In this context product configuration management tools are evermore...

... modularity and variety within a product family. The Design Structure Matrix (DSM) has been widely used to identify modules within a product, but its use to identify modules across a family of products has been limited. In this context we propose two tools based on an extension of the basic DSM to manage...

.... product architecture modularity complexity organizational structure software development Proceedings of the ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2007 September 4-7, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA 1...

... modularity life-cycle engineering DfX design design theory Modular product design methods enable the redesign of complex products to improve overall product. Different modular design methods exist in the literature, but they have yet to be compared quantitatively. This paper defines...

... 30 06 2008 This paper presents a redesign method supporting sustainable design of products. The method correlates product modularity with various life cycle directions at the conceptual stage of design. In the case of product redesign, the modular design approach allows designers...

... Architecture Modularity Proceedings of DETC 04 ASME 2004 Design Engineering Technical Conferences and R T K P a , m research on product architecture costing are provided. Keywords: Cos Architecture, Mo 1 INTRODUC In recent y demand heterog market niches. assumption of m firms face the d goods for pric...

... modularity product architecture Modularity has many advantages but few methods exist to partition a product into modules, and no knowledge on which method to use and when. This study compares the heuristic method, the design structure matrix, and modular function deployment. The methods...

... on the interaction type. We also found that decreasing a flow value causes, in general, less rework than increasing a flow. Our metric proved to be a valuable tool in estimating the redesign difficulty of an architecture. KEYWORDS: product architecture, modularity, complexity, redesign INTRODUCTION A module...

... 09 06 2008 Modular design issues are receiving increased attention by companies interested in reducing costs from carrying large numbers of components while at the same time increasing product quality and providing customers with greater product variety. Existing research has mainly...

... 09 06 2008 This paper describes a method for the early stages of new product development that supports the conceptual design of modular, platform-based, and customizable components. The method includes up-front product planning encompassing definition of customer requirements, market...