A heuristic method for identifying modules for product architectures

Stone, Robert B.; Wood, Kristin L.; Crawford, Richard H.

doi:10.1016/s0142-694x(99)00003-4

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“…They can be thought of quite simply as building blocks with defined interfaces [8]. Modular products may be defined as machines, assemblies or components that accomplish an overall function through combination of distinctive building blocks or modules [27]. A modular product development is one in which the input and output relationships between Components, that is, the component interfaces, in a product have been fully specified and standardized [13].…”

Section: The Proposed Modular Product Structure Methodsologymentioning

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A Modular Product Structure Based Methodology for Seamless Information Flow in PLM System Implementation

Giddaluru

Gao

Bhatti

2015

Computer-Aided Design and Applications

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Product development process deals with large amount of information generated from market survey, concept design, manufacture, test, limited production, production, service, and obsoleting. The information should be stored systematically so that it is easily traceable and reusable for future product development. This paper presents a methodology for seamless product information flow between the three main enterprise information systems such as Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM), Product Data/Lifecycle Management (PDM/PLM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) used in the process of innovative product development while implementing PLM. PLM implementation deals with various existing product data and information generated over years both from CAD and ERP systems. Data integration is very challenging in multi-national engineering companies and has important impact on future decisions while creating new processes. The aim is to define a modular product structure that can be used to connect the product information throughout the life cycle that can be reused effectively and efficiently for future similar products.

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Section: The Proposed Modular Product Structure Methodsologymentioning

confidence: 99%

A Modular Product Structure Based Methodology for Seamless Information Flow in PLM System Implementation

Giddaluru

Gao

Bhatti

2015

Computer-Aided Design and Applications

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“…In order to standardize the language for the process of functional modeling and the representation of functions and flows that correspond to each subfunction, an extended functional basis approach from Pahl and Beitz's original five categorical functions is used here (Hirtz et al 2002;Stone and Wood 2000;Pahl and Beitz 1996). All functions have been shown to be instances of abstract function classes, thereby providing a hierarchy of functions naturally intuitive to engineers.…”

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“…Identification of modules and interface boundaries within functional models may be achieved through additional refinement of the functional model (Stone and Wood 2000), allowing for simplification of the model, and/or discovery of opportunities to improve manufacturability, maintainability, and reliability early in the design process through function sharing and proper interface design (Salonen et al 2008). Another benefit of functional models is the ability to standardize, allowing for the archiving and retrieval of design knowledge, for which a number of systems have been developed (Szykman et al 1999(Szykman et al , 2000Bohm et al 2005Bohm et al , 2008.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The process begins with constructing a controlled and converged vocabulary of functions extracted from a patent database, building on the hierarchical structure of a functional basis, as inspired by the functional modeling approach of Pahl and Beitz (Hirtz et al 2002;Otto and Wood 2001;Stone and Wood 2000;Pahl and Beitz 1996), and five categorical functions of which all functions are more specific instances. This approach provides a natural abstraction mechanism for analogies that is likely already familiar to an engineering designer.…”

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Design-by-analogy: experimental evaluation of a functional analogy search methodology for concept generation improvement

Murphy

Yang

et al. 2014

Res Eng Design

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Design-by-analogy is a growing field of study and practice, due to its power to augment and extend traditional concept generation methods by expanding the set of generated ideas using similarity relationships from solutions to analogous problems. This paper presents the results of experimentally testing a new method for extracting functional analogies from general data sources, such as patent databases, to assist designers in systematically seeking and identifying analogies. In summary, the approach produces significantly improved results on the novelty of solutions generated and no significant change in the total quantity of solutions generated. Computationally, this design-by-analogy facilitation methodology uses a novel functional vector space representation to quantify the functional similarity between represented design problems and, in this case, patent descriptions of products. The mapping of the patents into the functional analogous words enables the generation of functionally relevant novel ideas that can be customized in various ways. Overall, this approach provides functionally relevant novel sources of design-byanalogy inspiration to designers and design teams.

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“…The Function Structure Heuristic method uses functional decomposition block diagrams of product functions as well as material, energy and information flows between the components (Stone et al 2000). Stone et al separate modules from a single product's function structure by finding the 'dominant flow', 'branching flows', or 'conversion-transmission' pairs.…”

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confidence: 99%

Mass Customization of Services

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Growing Modular

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Different configuration problems at different stages in the service life cycle. By Jose Angel Lakunza, Juan Carlos Astiazaran, Maria ElejosteConfiguring an open pipeline fulfilment system -a simulation study in an automotive context. By Philip G. Brabazon, Andy Woodcock, Bart L MacCarthyReplanning in an open pipeline fulfilment system -a simulation study in an automotive context. Topics of the IMCM'08 & PETO'08 and this book are: Mass customization in service, mass customizing financial services, mass customization in supply networks, implementation issues in logistics, product life cycle and mass customization. The research field of mass customization is more than 15 years old but as the topics illustrate, quite a diverse field. This is expected to continue as long as all fields continue to evolve in their own direction. From a research point of view this provides an opportunity as practitioners from diverse fields have an interest in meeting and sharing ideas. The IMCM'08 & PETO'08 is one such opportunity.We would like to offer our special thanks to the authors who by submitting their work made this conference possible and thereby continue to support this conference as a platform for mass customization research. AbstractThe rules and practices of supply-side collaboration changed with the automaker moving to modular assembly, and modular supply becomes dominate of the emerging automotive industry. The major purpose of this paper is to identify how modular supply affects the supply-side collaboration, and how to organize the upstream supply network effectively to supply these two type modules. Based on the case studies in Chinese automotive industry and literature reviews, we conclude that there are two type modules, fully integrated module and partial integrated module, and there are two types module supplier correspondingly. This paper observes the supply-side collaboration not only on the function level to identify the function deployment among design, production, inbound logistics and information, but also on the role level to analysis the relationship among automaker, module supplier and 3PL provider. And we summarized the findings into a 3C framework followed the 3C framework approach, which includes the context and capability requirements for supply-side collaboration when providing the two different type modules, and the configuration regarding the upstream supply network structure, the supply side collaboration process structure, and the supported information architecture.

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A heuristic method for identifying modules for product architectures

Cited by 440 publications

References 18 publications

A Modular Product Structure Based Methodology for Seamless Information Flow in PLM System Implementation

A Modular Product Structure Based Methodology for Seamless Information Flow in PLM System Implementation

Design-by-analogy: experimental evaluation of a functional analogy search methodology for concept generation improvement

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