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Opportunity cost of modularity: challenges and requirements for balancing the dilemma of product platforms
Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2016
Sprache
English
Author(s)
TORE-URI
Start Page
65
End Page
76
Citation
DFX 2016: Proceedings of the 27th Symposium Design for X : 65-76 (2016)
Contribution to Conference
Publisher
TuTech Verlag, TuTech Innovation GmbH
ISBN of container
978-3-946094-09-8
Modular product structure, respectively, platform definition is challenging for decision makers such as project managers or managers which are responsible for a product portfolio. Decisions with influence on modularity of the product family or the product portfolio have effects on internal and external variety and thus induce desired and non-desired effects in firms. This paper describes the problem of balancing effects induced by modularity and introduces modularity-induced opportunity cost as a perspective to the problem.
Subjects
Modularity
Platform
Platform design
Variant management
DDC Class
600: Technik