TY - GEN
T1 - Linking 10 years of modular design research
T2 - ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2013
AU - Otto, Kevin
AU - Hölttä-Otto, Katja
AU - Simpson, Timothy W.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Modular product platforms have been shown to provide substantial cost and time savings while still allowing companies to offer a variety of products. As a result, a multitude of product platform methods have been developed over the last decade within the design research community. However, comparison and integration of suitable methods is difficult since the methods have, for the most part, been developed in isolation from one another. In reviewing the literature in modularity and product platforms, we create a generic set of twelve platform design activities. We then examine a set of product platform development processes used at several different companies, and from this form a generic sequence of the activities. We then associate the various developed methods to the sequence, thereby enabling the chaining together of the various modular and platform design methods developed by the community.
AB - Modular product platforms have been shown to provide substantial cost and time savings while still allowing companies to offer a variety of products. As a result, a multitude of product platform methods have been developed over the last decade within the design research community. However, comparison and integration of suitable methods is difficult since the methods have, for the most part, been developed in isolation from one another. In reviewing the literature in modularity and product platforms, we create a generic set of twelve platform design activities. We then examine a set of product platform development processes used at several different companies, and from this form a generic sequence of the activities. We then associate the various developed methods to the sequence, thereby enabling the chaining together of the various modular and platform design methods developed by the community.
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U2 - 10.1115/DETC2013-12523
DO - 10.1115/DETC2013-12523
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84896908976
SN - 9780791855898
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
BT - 39th Design Automation Conference
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Y2 - 4 August 2013 through 7 August 2013
ER -