Design for mass customization by developing product family architecture

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianxin Jiao
Keyword(s):  
Mass Customization ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Product Family Architecture

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.

A Market-Based Design Strategy for a Universal Product Family

2012 ◽  
Vol 134 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seung Ki Moon ◽  
Daniel A. McAdams
Keyword(s):  
Mass Customization ◽  
Universal Design ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Differentiated Products ◽  
Product Family Design ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Market Segments ◽  
Light Duty

Companies that generate a variety of products and services are creating, and increasing research on, mass-customized products in order to satisfy customers’ specific needs. Currently, the majority of effort is focused on consumers who are without disabilities. The research presented here is motivated by the need to provide a basis of product design methods for users with some disability—often called universal design (UD). Product family design is a way to achieve cost-effective mass customization by allowing highly differentiated products serving distinct market segments to be developed from a common platform. By extending concepts from product family design and mass customization to universal design, we propose a method for developing and evaluating a universal product family within uncertain market environments. We will model design strategies for a universal product family as a market economy where product family platform configurations are generated through market segments based on a product platform and customers’ preferences. A coalitional game is employed to evaluate which design strategies provide more benefit when included in the platform based on the marginal profit contribution of each strategy. To demonstrate an implementation of the proposed method, we use a case study involving a family of light-duty trucks.

Product family modeling for mass customization

1998 ◽  
Vol 35 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 495-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianxin Jiao ◽  
Mitchell M. Tseng ◽  
Vincent G. Duffy ◽  
Fuhua Lin
Keyword(s):  
Mass Customization ◽  
Product Family

Development of Repeatable Interim Products Utilizing the Common Generic Block Concept

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (04) ◽  
pp. 195-202
Author(s):  
Richard Lee Storch ◽  
Smith Sukapanpotharam
Keyword(s):  
Mass Customization ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Threshold Value ◽  
Stopping Criterion ◽  
Clustering Techniques ◽  
World Class ◽  
The Common ◽  
Block Complexity ◽  
Relative Similarity

Productive shipbuilders provide customized or made-to-order products to customers. To date, most of these "world class" companies have succeeded by developing a series of repeatable type blocks, which may be chosen and combined to form products that respond to customer needs. Type blocks have been developed as a result of long experience in customizing ships to specific needs, while maintaining a repeatable build strategy. These are, therefore, empirically based. This paper reports on the early stages of work to develop a theory and methodology for developing type blocks for shipyards that do not currently have them in place and/or lack the historical base from which to extract common blocks. The concept, called Common Generic Block, builds these using the principles of mass customization, a block complexity matrix, grouping using clustering techniques based on production attributes, and applying a threshold value as a stopping criterion for the clustering. This paper describes the general framework of the approach and provides details on the block complexity matrix, used for determining the relative similarity of products to be included in a product family.

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