TY - GEN
T1 - EFFECTIVE PRODUCT FAMILY DESIGN USING PHYSICAL PROGRAMMING AND THE PRODUCT PLATFORM CONCEPT EXPLORATION METHOD
AU - Messac, Achille
AU - Martinez, Michael P.
AU - Simpson, Timothy W.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2000 by ASME.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - In an effort to produce more variety for today's highly competitive market, companies are designing and developing families of products - groups of related products derived from common product platforms - to simultaneously satisfy multiple customer requirements. After reviewing the state of the art in product family and product platform design, we describe the Product Platform Concept Exploration Method (PPCEM) for designing common product platforms that can be scaled or "stretched" into a suitable family of products. This paper extends previous work by the authors through the novel integration of physical programming within the PPCEM to enable the product family design problem to be formulated using physically meaningful terms and preferences. The design of a family of universal electric motors is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Performance gains are achieved in the motor family by utilizing physical programming within the PPCEM when compared to previous results.
AB - In an effort to produce more variety for today's highly competitive market, companies are designing and developing families of products - groups of related products derived from common product platforms - to simultaneously satisfy multiple customer requirements. After reviewing the state of the art in product family and product platform design, we describe the Product Platform Concept Exploration Method (PPCEM) for designing common product platforms that can be scaled or "stretched" into a suitable family of products. This paper extends previous work by the authors through the novel integration of physical programming within the PPCEM to enable the product family design problem to be formulated using physically meaningful terms and preferences. The design of a family of universal electric motors is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Performance gains are achieved in the motor family by utilizing physical programming within the PPCEM when compared to previous results.
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U2 - 10.1115/DETC2000/DAC-14252
DO - 10.1115/DETC2000/DAC-14252
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70449655509
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
SP - 689
EP - 699
BT - 26th Design Automation Conference
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 2000 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC-CIE 2000
Y2 - 10 September 2000 through 13 September 2000
ER -