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Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Strategische Entwicklung modularer Produktfamilien - Methoden und Validierung(Springer, 2025-10-20); ; ; ; Modularisierung ist eine Schlüsselstrategie, mit der sich sowohl innovative Produktideen als auch neue individuelle Kundenanforderungen in bestehende Produktportfolios integrieren lassen. Aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse umschließen ein breites Themenfeld von der Auswirkung der Modularisierung bis zur Anwendung in Forschungsprojekten, Einbindung von Nutzern in die Entwicklung, sowie Adressierung von spezifischen Unternehmenszielgrößen. Gleichzeitig müssen diese methodischen Ansätze einer situationsgerechten Methodenvalidierung standhalten, die in der Grundlagenforschung am Institut untersucht wird.Publicationtype: Book Part41 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Complexity Coping by Methodical Agile and Modular Product Development - A Bibliometric ReviewThis bibliometric analysis identifies the extent to which the methodical development of modular product families (product side) and agile project development (process side) can be beneficial for coping with complex product development tasks. The accomplished co-occurrence analysis reveals an indirect relationship between the development of modular product families and agile product development. This indirect connection is because the different methods are incorporated in the field of Design Methodology. However, the analysis leaves a gap in the direct interaction of both subjects, a subsequently accomplished bibliographic coupling points out. A consecutive in-depth abstract and paper analysis reveals further research on their integration is necessary.Publicationtype: Conference Paper72 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Development of a dynamic complexity costs assessment approach in aviation development(The Design Society, 2023-09-15); ; ; The development of avionic products is subject to high-cost pressure due to increasing international competition and small batch sizes. To compete on the global market in a long-term view, potentially arising complexity costs must already be considered in the early phases of the product generation development process. Existing approaches to cost evaluation concentrate on a subsequent evaluation of developed product family concepts alternatives. To avoid a cost- and time-intensive subsequent evaluation of complexity costs, a generic approach for the dynamic consideration of complexity costs within the product generation development process is to be developed by integrating existing approaches for the product generation development and evaluation of variety-induced complexity costs.Publicationtype: Conference Paper55 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: with files , Development of Modular Architectures for Product–Service Systems(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2023-09-01); ; ; ; Driven by servitization, an increasing number of manufacturing companies are transforming from being a pure product provider to a provider of Product–Service Systems (PSS). PSS offer unique benefits to both providers and customers by combining physical products and intangible services. However, this results in an increase in variety for the provider, which causes an increase in variety-induced complexity and, finally, also in costs. This correlation is proven based on the literature; possible approaches to manage the complexity are presented and the current research gap is addressed. To address the gap, a method for the development of modular architectures for PSS is presented in this paper. The method comprises five phases and supports companies from identifying PSS-based business models up to modularizing product components and service components. To validate this method, it is first applied to the example of a product family of pressure-reducing valves and then its results are discussed afterwards. It is proven that this method is suitable for the development of modular PSS architectures, but there is also a need for further research, which is described in the Conclusions section.Publicationtype: Journal Article38 139 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: with files , Exploiting the sustainability potential of modular products by integrating R-imperatives into product life phases(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2023-07); ; ; ; Climate change and the growing consumption of natural resources has made it increasingly clear that engineering must focus on the development of more sustainable products. To do so, the methodologies for developing products need to address sustainability. However, many of the frequently used methodologies, such as Modular Function Deployment (MFD) or the Life Phases Modularisation (LPM), do not do that sufficiently. The product life phases, these methodologies are based, only address sustainability in the form of recycling. That is why a broader approach to sustainability, such as the R-imperatives, is not considered. Therefore, in this contribution, the model of product life phases is extended by integrating the R-imperatives. Furthermore, the module drivers resulting from the extended product life phases that are necessary to apply the MFD and the LPM are developed. Finally, the positive impact of the developed module drivers on the product architecture is shown by applying the resulting method onto an industrial example.Publicationtype: Conference PaperScopus© Citations 2 34 49 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Zielgerichtete Gestaltung modularer Maschinen-Architekturen: Ermöglichen digitaler Fabriken durch die Entwicklung digitalfähiger SystemeA digital factory is a good approach for optimizing value streams. Various aspects contribute to the design of digital factories - on the process side and on the product/system side. This ranges from machining centers to autonomous transport systems. Each of these products/systems must have a corresponding architecture that facilitates integration. Therefore, the system architecture design should not be neglected and is an essential part of the development process. With the methodical development of modular architectures, products/ systems are supported in their integration into digital factories. This article shows how the Integrated PKT-Approach for Developing Modular Product Families enables this.Publicationtype: Journal Article35 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: with files , Reviewing the intellectual structure of product modularization: Toward a common view and future research agenda(Wiley-Blackwell, 2023-01); ; ; ; Product modularization in new product development has attracted considerable interest among scholars and practitioners from diverse fields of specialization. This has resulted in cross-disciplinary diversity in the field, diverting attention from its overall intellectual structure and hindering the development of a common view and shared concepts. Extant research lacks an integrative review, transcending a focal discipline that could identify gaps and ambiguities while making recommendations to advance the field. Considering a period of 30 years (1990–2020), we generate a data set of 2988 citing publications to which we apply a co-citation analysis. Thereby, we uncover the intellectual structure of the field and find three research perspectives that represent key knowledge bases: (1) product system, (2) production system, and (3) organizational system. Delimiting the data set into four periods, we can track developments over time, where we notice an increasing disintegration of the product system perspective, which is rooted in the discipline of engineering design. Within the two other perspectives, we document extensive dynamism in terms of publications, especially in the two most recent periods, indicating an active discussion and a potential receptivity to new trends. For these periods, we also identify an emerging cluster of fundamental publications and an increasing emphasis on the concept of system architecture. Leveraging the synthesis of these results, we forge links between neighboring disciplines and recommend avenues for further research, ideally to develop a more common view.Publicationtype: Journal ArticleScopus© Citations 12 138 552 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Analyzing Dependencies between Product Architecture and Module DriversA company's business model focuses on delivering personalized products or changing its offering to a Product-Service System impacts the underlying product architecture. Depending on the aim, different product architectures need to be designed. Therefore, modularization utilizing module drivers offers the advantage that additional objectives can be addressed. This contribution identifies module drivers focusing on the architecture design of personalization, collaboration, or PSS, which are not yet known. Analyzing existing literature and empirical findings, dependencies between different module drivers and product architectures are identified. As a result of this contribution, an extended view of module drivers in various product architecture applications is given.Publicationtype: Conference Paper33 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Development of Business Model Families for Product-Service Systems(2022-09); ; ; To access new market segments, a growing number of manufacturing companies are changing their business models and are transforming themselves into providers of so-called Product-Service Systems (PSS). These are a combination of product and service components. Since a complete transformation of the business model often involves uncertainties and risks, companies often offer different types of PSS simultaneously. However, this increases the variety and thus the variety-induced complexity for the companies. Therefore, this paper introduces an approach that allows the development of suitable PSS-based business models that can be offered simultaneously as a business model family and are based on existing products. The approach is applied to the example of a manufacturer of industrial valves.Publicationtype: Conference Paper25 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Increasing Transparency for Novel and Existing Complex Systems Development - Modular Design in an Agile Context(2022-08); ; This paper addresses the question of how Modular Design methods can support the development of complex products. The goal of selected Modular Design methods is to improve transparency in the development of modular systems to be able to structure these systems in a way that adds value to the observed company and to derive optimized product architectures from the conducted procedures. The problem addressed here is that existing methods can develop increasingly less transparency within the development of complex products, since the extent of these products rises increasingly. This increases the complexity of the work steps and scope of work, which results in a reduction of the immediate transparency in observing the underlying product architecture. To address this pain points, two selected methods in the context of Modular Design are exemplary adapted to agile approaches and principles. These adaptations are applied to two underlying case studies, each of which has to do with the development of complex products in various aspects. In the case studies, different process perspectives are depicted, which offer both a development process (further development of an existing system) of a laser cutting machine tool of a mechanical engineering company, as well as a development project (new design of a system with a high degree of novel development) of a smart industrial valve of a medium-sized engineering manufacturer with, in addition, an unknown proportion of new development as an investigation environment. The results show the integration of agile aspects in selected Modular Design methods as a successful support in generating transparency in the development of complex products and systems, in different process perspectives. At the same time, the research also shows that adaptations to the studied methods are necessary, such as continuous and centralized concept documentation, to apply them in an agile context.Publicationtype: Conference Paper36