Comprehensive Product Platform Planning (CP3) for a Modular Family of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Chowdhury, Souma; Maldonado, Víctor; Tong, Weiyang; Messac, Achille

doi:10.1115/detc2013-13181

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“…Chowdhury, et al [91] introduced a comprehensive product platform planning (CP 3 ) framework to develop a scale based product family based on a platform by maximizing performance and minimizing the cost. Chowdhury, et al [92] modified commonality matrix and constraints of the scale based product family and then applied the commonality matrix and the constraints to a modular product family. de Weck, et al [93] utilized two level optimization models: product platform model and product variant model.…”

Section: A Product Family and Platform Design Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable product family design and a platform strategy

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With awareness of environmental concerns growing at an ever-increasing rate, environmental regulations are becoming more stringent which is leading product designers to factor-in an extra feature into their designs: sustainability. Modular product design has been researched to consider product lifecycle including manufacturing, use, and end-of-life stages. As most modular product design has been developed for primarily manufacturing purposes, the design lacks the ability to configure and assess modules for the end-of-life stage. Since a product recovery strategy at the end-of-life stage has potential to meet the environmental regulations and earn economic and social benefits, the product recovery strategy must be considered for sustainable product design. This research proposes a sustainable product family design methodology (SPFDM) to incorporate sustainability performance into module-based product family design. Product design features including functionality and architecture have a major impact on the economic and environmental performances at the product recovery stage.By incorporating sustainable design at the product architecture design level, the proposed methodology extends and reinterprets the current product family design to enhance product recovery. In this research, new concepts of sustainable design methods are introduced to: 1) evaluate disassembly complexity and modularity of products from the viewpoint of the product recovery, 2) provide modular architecture to show how sustainable modular drivers affect the modular architecture to improve recyclability and reusability, 3) determine a sustainable platform for a product family by considering not only commonality, but also sustainability and risk of redesigning products, and 4) identify a sustainable product family to enhance economic and environmental performances by considering manufacturing and end-of-life (remanufacturing) stages simultaneously. To demonstrate and validate the effectiveness of the proposed SPFDM, case studies have been performed with product families of coffee makers and electric shavers. The main contribution of the SPFDM is to provide a foundation for modelling ii the link between product design and sustainability performance that incorporates environmental, economic, and social aspects. Accordingly, the proposed product design methods can help determine how to evaluate which design is more sustainable than other design, and then apply the evaluated information into product family design. The SPFDM can be used to develop design strategies to manage and enhance product lifecycle to meet environmental regulations and customer requirements.iii AcknowledgementFirst of all, I would like to thank God for giving me the strength, perseverance, and capability to achieve what I have done. May He be glorified through the research that I do both now and in the future. I am most grateful for my supervisor, Dr. Seung Ki Moon for giving me the chance to study at NTU in Singapore and patiently supporting me throughout this difficult journey. ...

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Sustainable product family design and a platform strategy

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Global Views on Modular Design Research: Linking Alternative Methods to Support Modular Product Family Concept Development

Otto

Hölttä‐Otto

Simpson

et al. 2016

Journal of Mechanical Design

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Modular product platforms have been shown to provide substantial cost and time savings while still allowing companies to offer a variety of products. As a result, a multitude of product platform methods have been developed over the last decade within the design research community. However, comparison and integration of suitable methods is difficult since the methods have, for the most part, been developed in isolation from one another. In reviewing the literature in modularity and product platforms, we create a generic set of 13 platform design steps for developing a platform concept. We then examine a set of product platform concept development processes used at several different companies, and from this form a generic sequence of the steps. We then associate the various developed methods to the sequence, thereby enabling the chaining together of the various modular and platform design methods developed by the community.

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