Product life-oriented development of component commonality and variety

Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2014
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Eilmus, Sandra  
Krause, Dieter  orcid-logo
Institut
Produktentwicklung und Konstruktionstechnik M-17  
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/7472
Citation
Proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition - 2013 : presented at ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition ; November 15 - 21, 2013, San Diego, California, USA. - New York, NY : ASME. - Vol. 12 (2014).
Contribution to Conference
ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2013  
Publisher DOI
10.1115/IMECE2013-63619
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84903444695
Publisher
ASME
To reach many customers and have a broad range of products at marketable prices companies aim for high commonality across product variants. Commonality is known as the sharing of components by product variants. But using the same components for different product variants can also lead to trade-offs in product function and fulfillment of customer requirements as well as in internal processes. The aim of this paper is to investigate by literature review and a case study on forklift trucks how benefits and trade-offs can be balanced according to corporate needs. Existing tools from the Integrated PKT-Approach for Developing Modular Product Families are applied and advanced in the case study. Practical examples demonstrate that commonality is a gradual property that can be given to variant components as well and that it is influenced by the modular structure and how components are handled as modules in different life phases. New product concepts with enhanced commonality are derived and evaluated by estimating the created lot size caused and code number caused costs.
DDC Class
600: Technik
620: Ingenieurwissenschaften