Product Families On-Chip — Combining the Software Product Family Paradigm with Run-Time Reprogrammable Hardware Technology

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Jaring
Keyword(s):  
Product Family ◽  
Product Families ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Run Time ◽  
On Chip

EXPRESSING PRODUCT DIVERSIFICATION — CATEGORIZING AND CLASSIFYING VARIABILITY IN SOFTWARE PRODUCT FAMILY ENGINEERING

2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (05) ◽  
pp. 449-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHEL JARING ◽  
JAN BOSCH
Keyword(s):  
Product Family ◽  
Product Diversification ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Family Development ◽  
Product Families ◽  
Software Product ◽  
System Maturity ◽  
Industrial Software ◽  
The Military

In a software product family context, software architects design architectures that support product diversification in both space (multiple contexts) and time (changing contexts). Product diversification is based on the concept of variability: a single architecture and a set of components support a family of products. Software product families have to support increasing amounts of variability, thereby making variability engineering a primary concern in software product family development. The first part of this paper (1) suggests a two-dimensional, orthogonal categorization of variability realization techniques and classifies these variability categories into system maturity levels. The second part (2) discusses a case study of an industrial software product family of mobile communication infrastructure for professional markets such as the military. The study categorizes and classifies the variability in this product family according to criteria common to virtually all software development projects.

scholarly journals Design of Personalized Devices—The Tradeoff between Individual Value and Personalization Workload

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
Juliane Kuhl ◽  
Andreas Ding ◽  
Ngoc Tuan Ngo ◽  
Andres Braschkat ◽  
Jens Fiehler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Customer Value ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Treatment Success ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Flow Diverter ◽  
New Method ◽  
Product Families ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Value

Personalized medical devices adapted to the anatomy of the individual promise greater treatment success for patients, thus increasing the individual value of the product. In order to cater to individual adaptations, however, medical device companies need to be able to handle a wide range of internal processes and components. These are here referred to collectively as the personalization workload. Consequently, support is required in order to evaluate how best to target product personalization. Since the approaches presented in the literature are not able to sufficiently meet this demand, this paper introduces a new method that can be used to define an appropriate variety level for a product family taking into account standardized, variant, and personalized attributes. The new method enables the identification and evaluation of personalizable attributes within an existing product family. The method is based on established steps and tools from the field of variant-oriented product design, and is applied using a flow diverter—an implant for the treatment of aneurysm diseases—as an example product. The personalization relevance and adaptation workload for the product characteristics that constitute the differentiating product properties were analyzed and compared in order to determine a tradeoff between customer value and personalization workload. This will consequently help companies to employ targeted, deliberate personalization when designing their product families by enabling them to factor variety-induced complexity and customer value into their thinking at an early stage, thus allowing them to critically evaluate a personalization project.

scholarly journals Prototyping Dynamic Software Product Lines to evaluate run-time reconfigurations

2013 ◽  
Vol 78 (12) ◽  
pp. 2399-2413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Cetina ◽  
Pau Giner ◽  
Joan Fons ◽  
Vicente Pelechano
Keyword(s):  
Software Product Lines ◽  
Product Lines ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Dynamic Software ◽  
Run Time

scholarly journals Software Product Family Evaluation

2004 ◽  
pp. 352-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank van der Linden ◽  
Jan Bosch ◽  
Erik Kamsties ◽  
Kari Känsälä ◽  
Lech Krzanik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Product Family ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Family Evaluation

scholarly journals Software Product Family Evaluation

2004 ◽  
pp. 110-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank van der Linden ◽  
Jan Bosch ◽  
Erik Kamsties ◽  
Kari Känsälä ◽  
Henk Obbink
Keyword(s):  
Product Family ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Family Evaluation

Algorithm-Based Support for the Redesign of Product Variants

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Redeker ◽  
Philipp Gebhardt ◽  
Thomas Vietor
Keyword(s):  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Graph Matching ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Automated Analysis ◽  
Production Volume ◽  
Scale Production ◽  
Product Families ◽  
First Case ◽  
Subtractive Manufacturing ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract Incremental Manufacturing is a novel manufacturing approach where product variants are manufactured based on a finalization of pre-produced parts through additive and subtractive manufacturing processes. This approach allows a multi-scale production with the possibility to scale product variants as well as the production volume. In order to ensure high economic efficiency of the manufacturing concept, there is a need for pre-produced parts that come as close as possible to the final variant geometries to ensure that only variant-specific features need to be added by additive or subtractive manufacturing steps. Furthermore, to ensure high economies of scale, a high degree of commonality should be ensured for the pre-produced parts manufactured in mass production. In this context, a graph-based method is developed that enables an automated analysis of product families, based on physical and functional attributes, for standardization potentials. The method thus provides support for the strategic definition of pre-produced parts and is embedded in an overall approach for the redesign of products for Incremental Manufacturing. For the demonstration of the approach, which is based on 3D Shape and Graph Matching methods, a first case study is carried out using a guiding bush product family as an example.

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