Product family design and platform-based product development: a state-of-the-art review

J Jiao, TW Simpson, Z Siddique - Journal of intelligent Manufacturing, 2007 - Springer
Product family design and platform-based product development has received much attention
over the last decade. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art …

A review of recent literature in product family design and platform-based product development

Z Pirmoradi, GG Wang, TW Simpson - Advances in product family and …, 2013 - Springer
Increased demand for a greater variety of consumer products has forced many companies to
rethink their strategies to offer more product variants. For manufacturers, producing a variety …

Global views on modular design research: linking alternative methods to support modular product family concept development

K Otto, K Hölttä-Otto… - Journal of …, 2016 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
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 …

A market-driven approach to product family design

D Kumar, W Chen, TW Simpson - International Journal of …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
In an effort to meet the diverse needs of today's highly competitive global marketplace better,
many companies are utilizing product families and platform-based product development to …

Incorporating customer personalization preferences in open product architecture design

C Tan, H Chung, K Barton, SJ Hu, T Freiheit - Journal of Manufacturing …, 2020 - Elsevier
Open product architecture is a key enabler for product personalization, as it allows the
integration of personalized modules in a product architecture to satisfy individual customer …

From user requirements to commonality specifications: an integrated approach to product family design

TW Simpson, A Bobuk, LA Slingerland… - … in Engineering Design, 2012 - Springer
Many companies design families of products based on product platforms that enable
economies of scale and scope while satisfying a variety of market applications. Product …

Joint optimization of product family configuration and scaling design by Stackelberg game

G Du, RJ Jiao, M Chen - European Journal of Operational Research, 2014 - Elsevier
Product family design is generally characterized by two types of approaches: module-based
and scale-based. While the former aims to enable product variety based on module …

Product configuration using redundancy and standardisation in an uncertain environment

Q Song, Y Ni, DA Ralescu - International Journal of Production …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Product configuration involves selecting common components/modules of individualised
products. This is done according to customer requirements under mass customisation …

Product family architecture design with predictive, data-driven product family design method

J Ma, HM Kim - Research in Engineering Design, 2016 - Springer
This article addresses the challenge of determining optimal product family architectures with
customer preference data. The proposed model, predictive data-driven product family …

A review of mass customization across marketing, engineering and distribution domains toward development of a process framework

SM Ferguson, AT Olewnik, P Cormier - Research in Engineering Design, 2014 - Springer
Introduced nearly 25 years ago, the paradigm of mass customization (MC) has largely not
lived up to its promise. Despite great strides in information technology, engineering design …