TY - JOUR
T1 - Product platform design
T2 - Method and application
AU - Simpson, Timothy W.
AU - Maier, Jonathan R.
AU - Mistree, Farrokh
N1 - Funding Information:
F. Mistree (&) Systems Realization Laboratory, G. W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-040Α, USA E-mail: farrokh.mistreeΒme.gatech.edu Tel.: Γ1-404-894-8412/9342 Fax: Γ1-404-894-8412/9342 We gratefully acknowledge David Schooley and Doug Dawson from Georgia Tech and Professor Rhett George from Duke University for their help in developing the universal motor analysis model. Timothy W. Simpson was supported by a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship during his doctoral study. Jonathan Maier was supported as an undergraduate research assistent. We acknowledge NSF Grant DMI-961232∆ for its support.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Scale-based product families derived from scalable product platforms that can be exploited from both a functional and a manufacturing standpoint to increase the potential benefits of having a common platform are presented. After the comprehensive review of the literature, the Product Platform Concept Exploration Method (PPCEM) which has been developed to facilitate the design of a family of products based on a scalable product platform is introduced. It is shown that PPCEM provides an efficient and effective means to design a scalable product platform and corresponding product family, promoting increased commonality within the product family with minimal performance tradeoff.
AB - Scale-based product families derived from scalable product platforms that can be exploited from both a functional and a manufacturing standpoint to increase the potential benefits of having a common platform are presented. After the comprehensive review of the literature, the Product Platform Concept Exploration Method (PPCEM) which has been developed to facilitate the design of a family of products based on a scalable product platform is introduced. It is shown that PPCEM provides an efficient and effective means to design a scalable product platform and corresponding product family, promoting increased commonality within the product family with minimal performance tradeoff.
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U2 - 10.1007/s001630100002
DO - 10.1007/s001630100002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034765872
SN - 0934-9839
VL - 13
SP - 2
EP - 22
JO - Research in Engineering Design - Theory, Applications, and Concurrent Engineering
JF - Research in Engineering Design - Theory, Applications, and Concurrent Engineering
IS - 1
ER -