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 …

With intense global competition, many manufacturing companies pursue a platform strategy
to develop diverse products belonging to a family, while utilizing available manufacturing …

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 …

How do consumers react to products assembled from existing components? Nine studies in
both the lab and the field demonstrate that consumers evaluate products as more creative …

A new model is proposed for automatically redesigning product variants using physical
commonality, instead of evaluating alternate solutions provided by designers using …

With a highly fragmented market and increased competition, platform-based product family
design is recognised as an effective method for constructing a product line that satisfies …

The smart factories that are already beginning to appear employ a completely new approach
to product creation. Smart products are uniquely identifiable and know both their current …

Development of a family of products that satisfies different market niches introduces
significant challenges to today's manufacturing industries—from development time to …

Many studies on product platform design have been performed, and have focused on factors
such as product function, performance level, and production cost. In platform design …

Alignment makes face distribution statistically more compact than un-aligned faces and
provides a good basis for face modeling, recognition and synthesis. In this paper we present …