Towards an approach for the target-size-oriented selection and adaptation of methods for the development of modular product families

Increasing customer demands and intensifying competition lead many companies to expand their product portfolios continuously, posing challenges for manufacturing firms. Modular product families offer a solution by maintaining external variety while reducing internal variety. Modular product families impact all product life phases and economic targets like time, cost, quality, and flexibility. However, selecting methods for developing modular product families based on economic objectives is challenging due to method intricacies, inconsistent documentation, and vague economic goal addressing. This paper proposes a method selection and adaptation approach for modular product family development to address this problem. This approach uses a methodstep-database from our own preliminary work to support the target-size-oriented adaptation.

Subjects

product development | method selection | modular product families | product family design | impacts of modularity

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600: Technology

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Towards an approach for the target-size-oriented selection and adaptation of methods for the development of modular product families