scholarly journals Formal computer-aided product family architecture design for mass customization

2015 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 58-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Bonev ◽  
Lars Hvam ◽  
John Clarkson ◽  
Anja Maier
Keyword(s):  
Mass Customization ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Architecture Design ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Product Family Architecture

scholarly journals Optimal Product Family Architecture Design and Commonality Decision for Sustainability and Intellectual Property Protection

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinju Kim ◽  
Michael Saidani ◽  
Harrison M. Kim
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Architecture Design ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Product Family Architecture

Abstract With the rapid development of new technology and the growing global competition in industry, it is essential for companies to protect their sensitive product designs and technologies. To ensure that their systems are not exploited by third-party competitors or remanufacturers, original equipment manufacturers often apply physical attributes and/or reduce commonality within a product family to prevent easy reusing and recovering. Yet, these design strategies are key barriers to the sustainable recovery and recycling of products. To address these trade-offs, this paper proposes a stepwise methodology to identify the sustainable optimal product family architecture design while protecting intellectual property on sensitive parts or modules. The developed approach notably allows the selection of suitable and sustainable candidates to share among products, taking into account the cost-benefit of commonality within the product family. As such, it can be used as a decision support tool to help product designers identify appropriate product family architecture design and find candidates that can be shared within a product family by considering both sustainability and security parameters.

Design for Mass Customization by Developing Product Family Architecture

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitchell M. Tseng ◽  
Jianxin Jiao
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Mass Customization ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Customer Requirements ◽  
Market Positioning ◽  
Product Families ◽  
Integration Platform ◽  
Product Family Architecture ◽  
Realization Process ◽  
Product Realization

Abstract Mass customization is becoming an important agenda in industry and academia alike. This paper deals with mass customization from a product development perspective. A framework of design for mass customization (DFMC) by developing product family architecture (PFA) is presented. To deal with tradeoffs between diversity of customer requirements and reusability of design and process capabilities, DFMC advocates shifting product development from designing individual products to designing product families. As the core of DFMC, the concept of PFA is developed to assist different functional departments within a manufacturing enterprise to work together cohesively. A PFA describes variety and product families and performs as a generic product platform for product differentiation in which individual customer requirements can be satisfied through systematic decisions of developing product variants. Based on such a PFA, the DFMC framework provides a unifying integration platform for synchronizing market positioning, soliciting customer requirements, increasing reusability, and enhancing manufacturing scale of economy across the entire product realization process.

Study on Product Family Architecture Dynamic Evolution Based on Product Instances

2012 ◽  
Vol 472-475 ◽  
pp. 2612-2616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Ping Shao ◽  
Yong Ping Hao ◽  
Peng Fei Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Mass Customization ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Dynamic Evolution ◽  
Geometric Information ◽  
Similarity Calculation ◽  
Product Family Architecture

Product family architecture (PFA) need to keep the dynamic evolution, in order to meet the changing needs of customers and effectively support the mass customization. This paper puts forward the theory of PFA dynamic evolution based on structure semantic unit. The variation of PFA is mainly caused by the changes in component. In the process of evolution, some components of the architecture need to be removed, replaced or added. For this purpose, the concepts of structure semantic and structure semantic unit were proposed. The structure semantic unit is the combination of assembly relationship, assembly constraint, and geometric information of related dimension and the model of components. The corresponding operations (remove, replace or add) of component is ascertained by consumption analysis of part and similarity calculation between structure semantic units.

Product Family Architecture Reasoning

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahed Siddique ◽  
Rajeshwar Reddy Adupala
Keyword(s):  
Product Family ◽  
Product Variety ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Architecture Design ◽  
Product Families ◽  
Multiple Viewpoints ◽  
Evaluation Scores ◽  
Product Function ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Product Family Architecture

Specifying the product platform and family architecture to support product varieties can be a challenging task for companies. Especially when various viewpoints have to be considered which include product variety, materials, manufacturing complexity, assembly complexity, average component count commonality, assembly sequence and late point differentiation. Consequently there is a need for reasoning to balance multiple viewpoints in the case of product families for the development of good architecture. In this paper we present a product family architecture design approach that can be applied to develop efficient product family architectures for a given set of product functions, while considering multiple viewpoints. In order to identify the efficient product family architecture(s) a three phase approach is presented: (1) Generating a set of feasible module architectures of options for each product function; (2) Combining the feasible module architectures and evaluating the product family architectures to identify candidate product family architectures with high evaluation scores; and (3) Improving the selected product family architecture. The product family architecture design approach is demonstrated using a coffeemaker product family.

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