Product modularization in new product development has attracted considerable interest
among scholars and practitioners from diverse fields of specialization. This has resulted in …

As sustainability and circularity are emerging as the new normal for business, manufacturers
have attempted to apply recovery strategies such as reuse, remanufacturing, and recycling …

Product developers are faced with the challenge of covering an ever-increasing external
variety with as little internal variety as possible. Modular product architectures offer one way …

Featured Application The developed method for knowledge-based decision support is
mainly aimed at companies that have to deal with a high number of variants in their product …

Traditional product architecture design is motivated towards structural-functional modularity
by a flat map all-in-one (AIO) approach, providing little emphasis on interface complexity and …

Production platforms can be considered as the foundation for the design, development, and
reconfiguration of a production system. Even though, the product platform domain has been …

In order to maintain their competitiveness and to respond effectively to different customer
needs, manufacturing companies offer a wide range of product variants. This increasing …

Within emerging markets, ensuring the competitiveness of manufacturing companies is
crucial to their success. The integration of new business possibilities, such as Product …

Due to global megatrends, manufacturing companies are supplementing their existing
products with services and are thus transforming themselves into providers of so-called …

This article synthesises the return of experience of performing a product variety analysis for
a (supplier in the automotive sector) that haven't had yet a product variety management …