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Product design specification
About: Product design specification is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5057 publications have been published within this topic receiving 109601 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop a simple model that captures the costs and benefits associated with this redesign strategy and apply this simple model to analyze some special cases that are motivated by real examples to formalize three different product/process redesign approaches (standardization, modular design, and process restructu...
Abstract: Expanding product variety and high customer service provision are both major challenges for manufacturers to compete in the global market. In addition to many ongoing programs, such as lead-time reduction, redesigning products and processes so as to delay the point of product differentiation is becoming an emerging means to address these challenges. Such a strategy calls for redesigning products and processes so that the stages of the production process in which a common process is used are prolonged. This product/process redesign will defer the point of differentiation (i.e., defer the stage after which the products assume their unique identities). In this paper, we develop a simple model that captures the costs and benefits associated with this redesign strategy. We apply this simple model to analyze some special cases that are motivated by real examples. These special cases enable us to formalize three different product/process redesign approaches (standardization, modular design, and process restructu...
650 citations
TL;DR: The design for variety (DFV) method as discussed by the authors uses the concept of specification "flows" within a product de- velopment project, and develops two indices to measure a product's architecture.
Abstract: Developing a robust, product platform architec- ture brings an important competitive advantage to a company. The major benefits are reduced design effort and time-to-market for future generations of the product. This paper describes a step-by-step method that aids companies in developing such product platform architectures. Using the concept of specification ''flows'' within a product de- velopment project, the design for variety (DFV) method develops two indices to measure a product's architecture. The first index is the generational variety index (GVI), a measure for the amount of redesign effort required for future designs of the product. The second index is the coupling index (CI), a measure of the coupling among the product components. The design team uses these two indices to develop a decoupled architecture that requires less design effort for follow-on products. This paper describes the DFV method and uses a water cooler example to illustrate the method.
616 citations
TL;DR: A process for the systematic design of product related technical services is introduced that upon its modularization represents a promising starting point for linkage with corresponding product design processes.
607 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a tool called "The Ten Golden Rules" to facilitate the integration of reasonable environmental demands into the product development process, which can be used as a base and guidelines for development of situation specific product-design challenges.
565 citations
TL;DR: It is concluded that the PPCEM provides an efficient and effective means to design a scalable product platform and corresponding product family, promoting increased commonality within the product family with minimal performance tradeoff.
Abstract: In this paper we focus on scale-based product families derived from scalable product platforms that can be exploited from both a functional and a manufacturing standpoint to increase the potential benefits of having a common platform. While many companies have been successful with scalable product platforms, few, if any, have instituted a systematic approach to design (i) the product platform and (ii) the corresponding family of products which are scaled around the product platform. Accordingly, in this paper we address the following question: How can a scalable product platform and its resulting product family be efficiently and effectively modeled, analyzed, and designed?
562 citations