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Karl T. Ulrich
Researcher at University of Pennsylvania
Publications - 103
Citations - 19997
Karl T. Ulrich is an academic researcher from University of Pennsylvania. The author has contributed to research in topics: New product development & Product design. The author has an hindex of 45, co-authored 101 publications receiving 19215 citations. Previous affiliations of Karl T. Ulrich include General Mills & Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Product Design and Development
TL;DR: This paper presents a meta-modelling framework for modeling uncertainty in the value of money and the net present value technique, and some examples show how this framework can be applied to product development economics.
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The Role of Product Architecture in the Manufacturing Firm
TL;DR: The paper is intended to raise awareness of the far-reaching implications of the architecture of the product, to create a vocabulary for discussing and addressing the decisions and issues that are linked to product architecture, and to identify and discuss specific trade-offs associated with the choice of a product architecture.
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Product Development Decisions: A Review of the Literature
Vish Krishnan,Karl T. Ulrich +1 more
TL;DR: This paper looks inside the "black box" of product development at the fundamentaldecisions that are made by intention or default, adopting the perspective ofproduct development as a deliberate business process involving hundreds of decisions, many of which can be usefully supported by knowledge and tools.
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Planning for Product Platforms
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a platform-planning process that involves two key tasks: product planning and product attribute selection, and system level designers decide what product architecture to use to deliver the different products while sharing parts and production steps across the products.
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Fundamentals of Product Modularity
TL;DR: The goal of this paper is to define modularity, to explore some of the benefits and costs of modularness, and to propose a set of research questions.