Auto-Adaptive Search Capabilities of the New Borg MOEA: A Detailed Comparison on Alternative Product Family Design Problem Formulations

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hadka ◽  
Patrick Reed ◽  
Timothy Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Design Problem ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Detailed Comparison ◽  
Adaptive Search ◽  
Product Family Design ◽  
Alternative Product ◽  
Problem Formulations

Optimal Design of Product Family Throughout Commonalization, Customization and Lineup Arrangement

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kikuo Fujita ◽  
Ryota Akai
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Design ◽  
Design Problem ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Feasible Region ◽  
Product Family Design ◽  
Active Set ◽  
Active Set Strategy ◽  
Design Variables ◽  
Design Paradigm

Product family design is a framework for effectively and efficiently meeting with spread customers’ needs by sharing components or modules across a series of products. This paper systematizes product family design toward its extension to throughout consideration of commonalization, customization and lineup arrangement under the optimal design paradigm. That is, commonalization is viewed as the operation that restricts the feasible region by fixing a set of design variables related to commonalized components or modules against later customization and final lineup offered to customers. Customization is viewed as the operation that arranges lineup by adjusting another set of design variables related to reserved freedom for customers’ needs. Their mutual and bi-directional relationships must be a matter of optimal design. This paper discusses the mathematical fundamentals of optimal product family design throughout commonalization, customization and lineup arrangement under active set strategy, and demonstrates a case study with a design problem of centrifugal compressors for showing the meaning of throughout optimal design.

Problem Exploration With Many-Objective Visual Analytics

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Woodruff ◽  
Timothy W. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Electric Motor ◽  
Visual Analytics ◽  
Design Problem ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Product Family Design ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
The Individual

This paper discusses problem exploration using Many-Objective Visual Analytics (MOVA). It describes an electric motor product family design problem, including previous attempts at optimized product family designs. The study undertaken in this study shows how MOVA can be used to progressively expose the structure of a problem and develop new design strategies in response. This study presents new designs for the electric motor product family that have superior commonality to any reported in the literature, with equivalent or superior performance for the individual motors.

Commonality indices for product family design: a detailed comparison

2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henri J. Thevenot ◽  
Timothy W. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Product Family ◽  
Detailed Comparison ◽  
Product Family Design

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.

A Product Variety Tradeoff Evaluation Method for a Family of Cordless Drill Transmissions

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn G. Conner ◽  
Joseph P. De Kroon ◽  
Farrokh Mistree
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Product Variety ◽  
Product Performance ◽  
Product Platform ◽  
Product Platforms ◽  
Individual Product ◽  
Alternative Product ◽  
Per Se

Abstract In this paper we present the Product Variety Tradeoff Evaluation Method for assessment of alternative product platforms in product family design. The Product Variety Tradeoff Evaluation Method is an attention-directing tool for evaluating tradeoffs between commonality and individual product performance for product platform alternatives with differing levels of commonality. We apply the Product Variety Tradeoff Evaluation Method to a case study in transmission redesign for a family of cordless drills. The emphasis in this paper is placed on the method rather than on the results, per se.

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