Platform concept development within the integrated PKT-Approach

Volume
7
Issue
DS 80-07
Start Page
73
End Page
82
Citation
International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED DS 80-07 (7): 73-82 (2015-07)
Contribution to Conference
20th International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 2015  
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84979703372
The development of modular product structures and platforms for product families is used more and more in companies to cope with the increasing complexity. Both approaches, modules and platforms, contain the definition of a certain degree of reusable elements which leads to a reduction of the internal variety, e.g. a reduced number of parts. The integrated PKT-approach is a method toolkit including different combinable method units supporting the development of modular product structures with reduced internal variety. The aim of this paper is to include the specific development of product platform concepts and the evaluation of different concepts regarding complexity costs into the integrated PKT-approach on an exemplary product family.
Subjects
Complexity costs
Integrated product development
Platform concepts
Product families
Product structuring