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 …

In this paper, we address a Stochastic-Demand Assembly Job Shop Scheduling Problem
(SD-AJSSP) in the presence of the commonality of sub-assemblies across products. We …

The focus of manufacturing has been shifting from mass production to mass customization
and producers are seeking ways to reduce production costs, still offering a competitive …

Product family design and platform-based product development have garnered much
attention. They have been used to provide nearly customised products to satisfy individual …

Competitiveness of any manufacturing industry depends on its ability to respond quickly to
market niches and to produce a variety of high-utility products at relatively low costs. The …

Increase of demand on product variety has pushed companies to think about offering more
and more product variants in order to take more market shares. However, product variation …

In this dissertation, a product family design method for scale based products leveraged from
multiple platforms is presented. A product family is a set of related products derived from a …

Companies have utilized product families to satisfy diverse customer needs while
maintaining competitive cost structures. However, armed with current product family design …

In present competitive market, there is growing concern for ascertaining and fulfilling the
individual customer's wants and needs. Therefore, the focus of manufacturing has been …

In this paper, a Product-Process Ontology is developed to capture, design and organize the
product data knowledge in a manner that computer can use and manipulate it meaningfully …