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Tracing of weight propagation for modular product families
Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2011
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Start Page
103
End Page
114
Citation
Invest on visualization : proceedings of the 13th International DSM Conference, Cambridge, MA, USA, 14 - 15 September 2011. - München, 2011 (): Seite 103-114 (2011)
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Modular product strategies are very popular in product development, especially for variant-rich products where modularity benefits economies of scale due to commonality. In weight-driven sectors such as aviation, modularity is not pursued consequently. Developers fear a performance loss caused by additional design constraints and weight. This paper demonstrates a way to effectively reduce this performance deficit in lightweight modular designs. Components or modules with high sensitivity to weight propagation across the product family system are traced using a DSM-based system model. This allows specific optimization of these modules.
Subjects
Lightweight design
Modularity
Product families
DDC Class
600: Technik
620: Ingenieurwissenschaften