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 …

Customer demands and global markets prompt companies to offer increasing product
variety. The use of modular product structures is a possible strategy for providing the …

Product family design offers a cost-effective solution for providing a variety of products to
meet the needs of diverse markets. At the beginning of product family design, designers …

Zusammenfassung Die Gestaltung der Produktarchitektur fokussiert die Analyse und
Synthese der Zusammenhänge zwischen der funktionalen und physischen …

Teams of engineering students take part in a problem-based learning course, where they
develop physical product variants of a robotic system and take part in a competition. Design …

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 …

Methods for developing modular product families contain a lot of information and data that
are not always consistent. Consistent data modeling enables simple changes across all …

Undoubtedly, this dissertation was written during one of the most influential and multifaceted
periods in my life–during my time as an external PhD candidate at the Institute of Product …