Customer-Centric Product Modeling for Rapid Product Identification in One-of-a-Kind Production

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Hong ◽  
D. Xue ◽  
Y. L. Tu
Keyword(s):  
Attribute Reduction ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Product Modeling ◽  
Product Families ◽  
Pattern Clustering ◽  
Customer Information ◽  
Product Identification ◽  
Fuzzy Pattern ◽  
Industrial Company

One-of-a-kind production (OKP) is a new manufacturing paradigm to produce customized products based on requirements of individual customers while maintaining the quality and efficiency of mass production. In this research, a customer-centric product modeling scheme is introduced to model OKP product families by incorporating the customer information. To develop this modeling scheme, data mining techniques, including fuzzy pattern clustering method, and hybrid attribute reduction method, are employed to achieve the knowledge from the historical data. Based on the achieved knowledge, the different patterns of OKP products are modeled by different sub-AND-OR trees trimmed from the original AND-OR tree. Since only partial product descriptions in a product family are used to identify the optimal custom product based on customer requirements, the efficiency of custom product identification process can be improved considerably. A case study to identify the optimal configuration and parameters of window products in an industrial company is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the introduced approach.

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.

Feature-Based Modeling of Product Families

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timo Laakko ◽  
Martti Mäntylä
Keyword(s):  
Product Family ◽  
Design History ◽  
Product Modeling ◽  
Product Families ◽  
New Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Feature Based ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Language Description

Abstract A feature-based product modeling system is introduced where the user can incrementally create and modify product families. Product family and feature descriptions are coded in a special definition language and can be easily added and modified by the user. The descriptions include dynamically maintained constraints. The definition language description of a new family can be automatically created on the basis of a recognized prototypical instance. A stored design history can be used for generating the geometry definition of the family.

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.

Case Study: User Adoption of a Product Configuration Management System at a Modular Playground Equipment Producer

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany M. Byron ◽  
Steven B. Shooter
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Information Management System ◽  
Product Configuration ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
Product Families ◽  
Product Configuration Management ◽  
Storage And Retrieval ◽  
User Adoption

Product platform and product family strategies place tremendous demands on the efficient capture, storage, and retrieval of information in the form of product data. The user’s adoption of an information management system for product families and mass customization is critical for allowing the system to perform as it ought. The following is a case study at a major modular playground equipment producer undergoing the implementation of a new graphical-based configurator for managing its mass customized products. The case study examines the proliferation of software packages to perform configuration and the flow of information in the configuration process. Next, the new configurator is evaluated on its new features to capture, store, and reuse configurations and its visual appeal. Last, the paper addresses the personal behaviors and training methods used for increasing adoption and their success.

A novel approach based on utility mining for store layout: a case study in a supermarket

2017 ◽  
Vol 117 (2) ◽  
pp. 304-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serkan Altuntas
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Data Mining Algorithm ◽  
Product Families ◽  
Utility Mining ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Novel Approach

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel approach based on utility mining for store layout. Design/methodology/approach A utility mining-based data mining algorithm is utilized in this paper. Findings A real-life case study in a supermarket is conducted to illustrate the proposed approach. The findings show that the proposed approach can be used easily and efficiently to arrange store layout. Research limitations/implications There are two limitations to this study. First, space allocation to each product family is not considered. Second, product placement in each product family is not taken into account in the proposed approach. Originality/value In this paper, a novel approach is proposed for business intelligence in retail business. The proposed approach uses a utility-based data mining approach, namely, the high-utility itemset mining (HUIM) algorithm, to rearrange store layout and to determine the relations among product families. The quantities and prices of items purchased corresponding to product families are taken into account in the proposed approach to address the needs in practice. Business intelligence software is also developed as an integral part of the proposed approach to utilize the HUIM algorithm.

An Approach to Quantifying Design Flexibility for Mass Customization in Early Design Stages

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil Cormier ◽  
Andrew Olewnik ◽  
Kemper Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Product Families ◽  
Customer Preferences ◽  
Design Flexibility ◽  
Functional Aspects ◽  
Early Design Stages ◽  
Design Options ◽  
Research Metrics

With the increasing stratification of customer preferences, companies must offer a number of options to remain competitive. Current methodologies, such as product families, seek to offer more options to the consumer while minimizing costs to the company. Customizable products are striving to offer the customer what they truly desire by increasing the level of influence the consumer has on their instance of the design. As the shift from cosmetic changes and modular options continues, systems will be required to have a greater amount of design flexibility to allow for the changes made by individual consumers. Drawing on reconfigurable system and product family research, metrics for flexibility are proposed for use in the early stages of the design process. Discussion focuses on functional aspects of a product which affect flexibility and the rational behind the component metrics representing their flexibility. The goal of the metrics is to assist with the evaluation of design options by rating the overall flexibility of the system early in the design process. A case study is presented to demonstrate the use of the metrics.

Module and Product Family Formation Based on Improved Interpretive Structure Model

2006 ◽  
Vol 532-533 ◽  
pp. 821-824
Author(s):  
Jun Hua Che ◽  
Jian Rong Tan ◽  
Yun Wang ◽  
Yi Xiong Feng
Keyword(s):  
Mass Customization ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Structural Mapping ◽  
Product Families ◽  
Structural Graph ◽  
Hierarchical Relations ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Voice Of Customer

The module and product family formation are the important technologies for mass customization. This paper provides a novel method of establishing the module for mass customization so that we can construct the various product families for the individuation demand. This method can obtain the driven design way of demand through the VOC (Voice of customer) report and obtain the components through the functional and structural mapping .This method accounts for the specification flow between components rather than merely the relation and similarity of the components, represents the hierarchical relations and related design constraints of the product by a structural graph and helps designers to create various product for mass customization. The methodology also is illustrated via the case study of the product family design of forklift.

Research on the Design and Extraction of Vehicle Brand Form Gene

2013 ◽  
Vol 483 ◽  
pp. 497-501
Author(s):  
Xiao Li Chen ◽  
Xiang Li
Keyword(s):  
Product Family ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Product Diversification ◽  
Design Concept ◽  
Brand Value ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Modern Enterprise

Product family is a series of products with similar characteristics. It is a strategy used by modern enterprise to achieve product diversification with limited development, manufacturing and service. Product DNA is the design commonality of enterprises product family, it is distinctive and aesthetic by reflecting the company's brand value and design concept, in addition ,it include some essential elements such as form, color, material and composition. This paper introduces the methods of drawing product DNA and analysing the relevance of design features to brand style by case study.

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.

Product Analysis and Variants Derivation Based on a Semantically Annotated Product Family Ontology

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soon Chong Johnson Lim ◽  
Ying Liu ◽  
Wing Bun Lee
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Annotation ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Product Analysis ◽  
Laptop Computer ◽  
Family Analysis ◽  
Design And Manufacturing ◽  
Commonality Analysis ◽  
Current Representation

In literature, there are a number of indexes suggested that serve as the indicator of commonality among product components, modules and variants. However, as these elements are increasingly interconnected with aspects other than the component view, the existing commonality metrics are unable to effectively model these aspects due to their limitation in capturing relevant information for analysis. Therefore, there exists a need to consider multiple design and manufacturing aspects in commonality metrics so that a comprehensive view of the commonality among product variants can be presented. In the current representation schemes proposed for product family modeling, ontology is one of the most promising ones to model the complex semantic relations among various elements in a product family. Nevertheless, the research and application of ontology in the analysis of a product family has so far received little attention. In this paper, we proposed a framework to generate a semantically annotated multi-facet product family ontology. Using a case study of a laptop computer family, we suggest and demonstrate a new commonality analysis approach based on the semantically annotated multi-facet laptop product family ontology. Together with a new method of deriving product variants based on the aforementioned ontology, our approach illustrates the merits of using semantic annotation in assisting ontology based product family analysis.

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