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Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Sustainability in product development(VDI Fachmedien, 2025); ; ; ; Sustainability is important in society and the economy, but complicated to implement in products. The Scientific Society for Product Development (WiGeP), a network of leading professors and industry representatives active in German-speaking countries, sees sustainability as an integral part of its field. The Scientific Society’s position paper therefore shows how methods and processes can be further developed in future research in order to increase the integration of sustainability aspects into methodical product development.Publicationtype: Journal Article46 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: with files , Determination of the right level of detail: A methodical approach for life cycle costing integration in product development(Elsevier, 2025); ; ; In Life cycle costing the processing of the high amount of cost data is challenging for industrial companies. Depending on the existing product and business model the cost structure and the relevance of different cost types differs. To minimize the effort for data processing in product development, this paper presents a methodical approach to determine the needed level of detail concerning the consideration of life cycle cost. The necessary level of detail for business models can be defined by converting the existing cost data into a holistic cost model. The methodical approach presented is applied to an exemplary business model.Publicationtype: Conference Paper23 18 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , How to Use the Levers of Modularity Properly-Linking Modularization to Economic Targets(2022-07); ; ; ; Product developers are faced with the challenge of covering an ever-increasing external variety with as little internal variety as possible. Modular product architectures offer one way of resolving the challenge. They have an impact on all life phases and on economic targets. These effects are represented in the Impact Model of Modular Product Families. A large number of modularization methods can be found in the literature. The modularization methods consist of different activities: decomposition of product, analysis and revision of components, and reintegration to modules. Module drivers play a major role in reintegration, as they determine which components together form a module. It is not yet clear what effects different modularization methods involving different module drivers have on economic targets. For this reason, the module drivers are examined in their role as levers of modularity and integrated into the Impact Model via access points. By documenting the results in a specially developed uniform method step description and the Impact Model, we enable the selection of modularization methods with regard to their economic impact. The introduction is followed by the state of research. In Sec. 3, the research problem and the research approach are presented. In Sec. 4, the generic method step description is applied to seven modularization methods. Based thereon, the modularization methods are compared with each other with regard to their addressed economic objectives. In an explanatory example, the method selection made possible by this is presented. Finally, the results are discussed and an outlook is given.Publicationtype: Journal Article84 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: with files , Designing PSS fleets - consideration of the product architecture(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2022-05); ; ; By transforming from a manufacturer into a PSS provider, the business model of a company changes. In particular with service-oriented business models, the importance of tangible products alters. Instead of selling products, PSS providers need product fleets that enable the provision of services. If the manufacturer of the product and the provider of the PSS fleet are identical, the products can be designed specifically for the PSS. This paper introduces a framework that supports the design of modular PSS fleets so that the product architecture is optimised for the requirements of the fleet.Publicationtype: Conference PaperScopus© Citations 2 123 95 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Impact of Modularity Decisions on a Firm's Economic Objectives(2020-04-01); ; ; ; Research in modularization of product families reveals numerous individual cause and effect impacts of modularity on the firm. While many modularization methods are present in the literature, an overall combined picture of the interrelations of modular product structures on the firm is yet missing. This makes the construction of an economic business case for modularity difficult. The aim of this work is to show a causal network of how modular product structures affect a firm's economics through modularity's impact on the firm's activities over its products lifecycle phases. Therefore we introduce a literature based impact model on the basis of three main cause and effect node types, being (1) modularity property causes leading to (2) product life phase effects, leading to (3) economic impacts. We show how modularization decisions on a product family structure can impact activities in the product life cycle differently and the resultant economic outcomes. The cause and effect model is a combined summary of the corpus of knowledge found in the literature, highlighting for example that modularity can have an initial negative delaying effect on the development time for a platform followed by a positive reduction in product variant development times, and can a positive impact on reduced manufacturing costs. For validation the model was evaluated by industrial experts against nine case studies of major product-family-wide design projects, marking effects that were experienced and observed in their modularization projects.Publicationtype: Journal Article424 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Szenarien der Methodenanwendung : Ein White-Paper für die MethodenforschungPublicationtype: Journal Article39 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: with files , Design for X - Beiträge zum 24. DfX-Symposium September 2013(Tutech Innovation GmbH, 2013); ; ; ; Once founded by Prof. Harald Meerkamm the 24th DfX-Symposium provides young researchers a communicative platform for presenting new ideas and concepts. Since 2010 organization of the Symposium was taken over by Prof. Kristin Paetzold (University of the armed forces Munich), Prof. Dieter Krause (Hamburg University of Technology) and Prof. Sandro Wartzack (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg) with venue circling between the three Universities. In 2013 the Symposium showed 22 contributions from 9 universities and 5 industry companies. The main topics of the symposium were - Modularization & variant management - Structure analysis, simulation & testing - Light weight design - other DfX related topicsPublicationtype: Conference Proceedings5693 7111