A Tool to Integrate Design for Assembly During Product Platform Design

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amar Pandit ◽  
Zahed Siddique
Keyword(s):  
Product Family ◽  
Product Platform ◽  
Design For Assembly ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Single Product ◽  
Entire Family ◽  
Platform Design ◽  
Product Families ◽  
Integrate Design

To survive in the current market, many companies are moving toward design and development of product families using a platform approach. To effectively develop a family of products, companies have to consider both component and assembly perspectives. The assembly perspective has many issues associated with it for developing common platforms, which includes assemblability evaluation for the entire family. Application of Design for Assembly techniques to evaluate product family will require modifications to the current single product DFA method. In this paper a product family DFA tool and guidelines are presented. The application of this product family DFA tool is illustrated using Walkman® and Coffeemaker product family.

A Tool to Integrate Design for Assembly During Product Platform Design

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amar Pandit ◽  
Zahed Siddique
Keyword(s):  
Product Family ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Platform ◽  
Design For Assembly ◽  
Single Product ◽  
Entire Family ◽  
Platform Design ◽  
Product Families ◽  
Product Family Architecture ◽  
Integrate Design

To survive in the current market, many companies are moving toward design and development of product families using a platform approach. To effectively develop a family of products companies have to consider both component and assembly perspective. The assembly perspective has many issues associated with it for developing common platforms, which includes assemblability evaluation for the entire family. Application of Design for Assembly techniques to evaluate product family will require modifications to the current single product DFA method. The purpose of this paper is to extend the current DFA technique for product family and platform design. Specifically, we integrate the product family architecture with DFA evaluation. Product family concepts related to assembly are used to develop new product family DFA guidelines. A product family DFA tool that utilizes these extensions has been developed and is presented in the paper. The application of this product family DFA extensions and tool are illustrated using a Walkman product family.

Product Platform Design and Optimization: Status and Promise

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy W. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Optimization Techniques ◽  
Lead Times ◽  
Product Platform ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Global Marketplace ◽  
Platform Design ◽  
Product Families ◽  
Design And Optimization

In an effort to improve customization for today’s highly competitive global marketplace, many companies are utilizing product families to increase variety, shorten lead-times, and reduce costs. The key to a successful product family is the product platform from which it is derived either by adding, removing, or substituting one or more modules to the platform or by scaling the platform in one or more dimensions to target specific market niches. This nascent field of engineering design research has matured rapidly in the past decade, and this paper provides an extensive review of the research activity that has occurred during that time to facilitate product platform design and optimization. Techniques for identifying platform leveraging strategies within a product family are reviewed along with optimization-based approaches to help automate the design of a product platform and its corresponding family of products. Examples from both industry and academia are presented throughout the paper to highlight the benefits of platform-based product development, and the paper concludes with a discussion of promising research directions to help bridge the gap between planning and managing families of products and designing and manufacturing them.

Estimating Reduction in Development Time for Implementing a Product Platform Approach

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahed Siddique
Keyword(s):  
Development Time ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Disk Drive ◽  
Spindle Motor ◽  
Product Platform ◽  
Hard Disks ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Product Families ◽  
Hard Information ◽  
Design Activities

Abstract Many market forces are driving companies to improve their targeting of increasingly small market niches. To accomplish this efficiently, products are organized into product families that typically share common platforms. In industries with short product lifecycles, the decision to move towards a common platform approach, even for some components, requires estimating the reduction in development time. One of the problems encountered in estimating development time is that initially, before implementing a platform approach, hard information related to product family design and development is not available. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the design and development time using simple activity models, when moving towards a platform approach. The product family models are developed from existing single product design activities, which are modified and extended to reflect activities related to development of product platform and subsequent product members of the family from the platform. Uncertainty associated with time for each activity is also included in the model, which is solved using Monte Carlo simulation. The approach is demonstrated using a hard disk drive spindle motor platform development for a family of hard disks.

Strategic Decisions in the Early Stages of Product Family Design

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan R. A. Maier ◽  
Georges M. Fadel
Keyword(s):  
Product Family ◽  
Product Family Design ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Product Introduction ◽  
Single Product ◽  
Product Families ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Formal Design

Abstract The realization that designing products in families can and does have significant technological and economic advantages over traditional single product design has motivated increasing interest in recent years in formal design tools and methodologies for product family design. However, currently there is no guidance for designers in the first key strategic decisions of product family design, in particular determining the type of product family to design. Hence in this paper, first a taxonomy of different types of product families is presented which consists of seven types of product families, categorized based on number of products and time of product introduction. Next a methodology is introduced to aid designers in determining which type of product family is appropriate, based upon early knowledge about the nature of the intended product(s) and their intended market(s). From this information it also follows both which manufacturing paradigm and which fundamental design strategies are appropriate for the product family. Finally the proposed methodology is illustrated through a case study examining a family of whitewater kayaks.

Introduction of a Product Family Penalty Function Using Physical Programming

2002 ◽  
Vol 124 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Achille Messac ◽  
Michael P. Martinez ◽  
Timothy W. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Penalty Function ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Product Variety ◽  
Product Platform ◽  
Product Families ◽  
Physical Programming ◽  
Product Platforms ◽  
Scaling Parameters ◽  
The Common ◽  
Selection Of

In an effort to increase customization for today’s highly competitive global markets, many companies are looking to product families to increase product variety and shorten product lead-times while reducing costs. The key to a successful product family is the common product platform around which the product family is derived. Building on our previous work in product family design, we introduce a product family penalty function (PFPF) in this paper to aid in the selection of common and scaling parameters for families of products derived from scalable product platforms. The implementation of the PFPF utilizes the powerful physical programming paradigm to formulate the problem in terms of physically meaningful parameters. To demonstrate the proposed approach, a family of electric motors is developed and compared against previous results. We find that the PFPF enables us to properly balance commonality and performance within the product family through the judicious selection of the common parameters that constitute the product platform and the scaling parameters used to instantiate the product family.

A Cost Model for Optimal Design of Hierarchic Product Platform under Coupled Architecture

2012 ◽  
Vol 452-453 ◽  
pp. 516-520
Author(s):  
Yan Ling Cai ◽  
Zhen Hua Cui
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Design ◽  
Cost Model ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Product Platform ◽  
Product Family Design ◽  
Flexible Design ◽  
Platform Design ◽  
Cost Drivers ◽  
Difficult Decision

Product platform design is essentially a difficult decision to make, thus a hierarchic platform has been proposed to solve the inherent tradeoff for optimization. However, architecture coupling adds on complexity of the platform design. This paper proposes an improved cost model for the optimal design of platform design in the hierarchic manner with the consideration of the architecture coupling. This cost model uniquely treats the architecture couplings and their decoupling interfaces as latent cost drivers to enable the flexible design of product platform and its family. As a support, the underlying tradeoff mechanism of platform-based product family design is also analyzed in this paper.

Product Platform Design Through Sensitivity Analysis and Cluster Analysis

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhihuang Dai ◽  
Michael J. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Sensitivity Analysis ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Product Platform ◽  
Platform Design ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Efficiency Cost ◽  
And Cluster Analysis

Product platform design plays a vital role in determining two important aspects of a products family: efficiency (cost savings due to commonality) and effectiveness (capability to satisfy performance requirements). In this work, sensitivity analysis and cluster analysis are used to improve both efficiency and effectiveness of a product family design. A strategy of commonization is employed to form a platform. An illustrative example is used to demonstrate the merits of the proposed method, and the results are compared with existing results from the literature.

Application of Cloud Counting in Product Platform Design Services Research

2014 ◽  
Vol 513-517 ◽  
pp. 1765-1768
Author(s):  
Dan Dan He ◽  
Fang Qin ◽  
Can Wang
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Product Platform ◽  
Cloud Data Center ◽  
Services Research ◽  
Service Architecture ◽  
Platform Design ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Development Costs

Product platform is a key theory in mass customization method, and it can satisfy diversely customer needs at high efficiency service and reduce enterprise product development costs. This dissertation explores the product platform development routing and design ability service and resources virtualization and other key technologies in the migration process of product platform to cloud platform in the background of computing clouds technology and product platform theory. It proposes the product platform design service architecture based on cloud computing and its design service modes and the related key technology to the study, including product platform resources virtualization in cloud computing environment and product family design ability services technology and product platform cloud data center retrieval technology, etc.

A Method to Design Common Product Platform Based on Structure Matrix Analysis

2011 ◽  
Vol 130-134 ◽  
pp. 2340-2344
Author(s):  
Bin Zhu ◽  
Hong Li
Keyword(s):  
Mass Customization ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Matrix Analysis ◽  
Structure Modeling ◽  
Product Platform ◽  
Product Family Design ◽  
Single Product ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Structure Matrix ◽  
Implement Strategy

Design for product family is an efficient way to guarantee the idea of mass customization to be implemented successfully. This paper presents an approach to architecting a product family that aims to provide methodological guidance for enterprises which plan to implement strategy of product family design. Based on the conventional methodology of designing for a single product, this paper respectively demonstrates the methods of requirement modeling, function-principle modeling and structure modeling in details according to the characteristics of product family design, and also some key approaches in different design processes are presented.

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