Derivation of Starting Solutions Based on Product Architecture Flexibility Evaluation

Abstract

Manufacturing companies nowadays face growing numbers of heterogeneous customer requirements. Due to that, internal and external complexity lead to an increase in the associated costs. Especially companies with a high Engineer-to-Order business are strongly affected. To reduce external and internal complexity, Starting Solutions are a suitable way to do that. Starting Solutions require on the one hand the evaluation of product flexibility, on the other hand the evaluation of customer requirements. These two requirements are compared to each other and Starting Solutions are thereby derived.

Productization and product structure enabling BIM implementation in construction

“…A generic PS is an organised hierarchical and structural representation (Bri ere-Côt e et al, 2010; Chu et al, 2009;Heimes et al, 2020;Pinqui e et al, 2015) illustrating product's composition and assembly relationships (Belkadi et al, 2016;Binbin et al, 2011;Christ et al, 2013;Lu et al, 2011;S ¸enaltun and Cangelir, 2013). PS consists of either abstract or physical elements (Riesener et al, 2020;Sarinko et al, 2005), cover entire product families, show which modules and part types or classes are used in products or product families (Christ et al, 2013;Magnusson and Pasche, 2014;Mannisto et al, 1998;Venkatesh, 2015). PS forms a consistent unit that can be identified and its elements replaced (Belkadi et al, 2016), and supports managerial decision-making (Binbin et al, 2011; and collaborative workflow by maintaining up-to-date design details (S ¸enaltun and Cangelir, 2013) so that they remain dynamic and reusable.…”

“…, 2011; Şenaltun and Cangelir, 2013). PS consists of either abstract or physical elements (Riesener et al. , 2020; Sarinko et al.…”