Systematic product platform design: a combined function-means and parametric modeling approach

Johannesson, Hans L; Claesson, Anders

doi:10.1080/09544820512331325247

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“…Several methods for product family design can found in the literature, including a quantitative platform selection method that maximizes commonality while minimizing loss of individual product performance (Fellini et al 2006), a systematic product platform design procedure combining function-means with a parametric approach (Johannesson and Claesson 2005), and a method that integrates design for quality into the early stages of modular product family development (Nepal et al 2006). While these methods have different foci (product performance, customer needs, quality), they only examine the design of a new product family, not the redesign of an existing one.…”

Section: Methods For Product Family Redesignmentioning

confidence: 99%

A comprehensive metric for evaluating component commonality in a product family

Thevenot

Simpson

2007

Journal of Engineering Design

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The competitiveness in today's market forces many companies to rethink the way they design (and redesign) products. Instead of developing one product at a time, many manufacturing companies are developing families of products to provide enough variety for the marketplace while keeping costs relatively low. Although the benefits of commonality are widely known, many companies are still not taking full advantage of it when developing new products or redesigning existing ones. One reason is the lack of appropriate methods and useful metrics to assess a product family based on commonality and diversity. Although many component-based commonality metrics have been proposed in the literature, they do not help resolve the trade-off between commonality and diversity in a product family and do not capture enough information to be very useful during product family design and redesign. In this paper, we propose the Comprehensive Metric for Commonality (CMC) to evaluate the design of a product family on a 0-1 scale based on the components in each product, their size, geometry, material, manufacturing process, assembly, cost, and the allowed diversity in the family. To demonstrate the usefulness of this metric for product family benchmarking and redesign, the CMC is compared to six other component-based commonality indices. A CMC-based redesign method is also proposed and applied to a family of staplers to assess the level of commonality in the family and to give recommendations for redesigning it.

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Section: Methods For Product Family Redesignmentioning

confidence: 99%

A comprehensive metric for evaluating component commonality in a product family

Thevenot

Simpson

2007

Journal of Engineering Design

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“…A common usage is in the definition of cars, where customers select from a range of options to define the specific cars that they desire. Such products include a common platform with which configuration items are integrated (Johannesson and Claesson 2005).…”

Section: Personalisation Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Affective communication: towards the personalisation of a museum exhibition

McKay

2007

CoDesign

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Affective communication is a key element in the design of museum exhibitions to engage with visitors and so enhance their visit experience.Museums are examples of what Auge´refers to as non-places. He asserts that non-places, such as museums, supermarkets and airports, provide people with different experiences (when compared with experiences in anthropological places) because people in a non-place are a collection of solitary individuals (as opposed to a social group), each of whom typically interacts with the non-place using written text and narratives. This inevitably affects each individual experience of the non-place. Personalisation is a strategy used in the production of consumer goods to tailor products to suit the needs of individual consumers. This paper explores the use of personalisation as a design strategy that might be used to improve affective communication between an exhibition and individual visitors. Early results of research using personalisation technologies to provide museum visitors with personalised journeys through an exhibition space are presented. Key similarities and differences between the personalisation of exhibition visits and consumer products are highlighted. In the longer term, it is anticipated that learning from this research could be applied to other non-places, such as supermarkets, the products that occupy them and the way in which such products are presented to consumers.

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“…The task of a producer is not limited to the design and implementation of the service side into an artefact but also encompasses the transfer of information and knowledge to the user on how to enact these capabilities (Schmid 2002). One well-established need for companies that develop, manufacture and sell complex products is to be able to define and manage information about the product throughout all stages of the product life-cycle (Johannesson and Claesson 2005). On the rational side, a producer intends to communicate at least those services that differentiate this product from others.…”

Section: Product Designmentioning

confidence: 99%