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 …

In today's highly competitive global business landscape, customers demand personalised
products and responsive distribution systems, hence fuelling the concept of Distributed …

This paper carried out a systematic literature review and meta-synthesis of 72 peer-reviewed
articles and book chapters (1998–2021) that addressed front-end issues in product family …

Increasing product variety and expanding commercial offering create a challenge for
companies in terms of keeping their product portfolio profitable and managing it through the …

As seen in recent years, the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment has
made flexibility in product design and production planning more important than ever …

Research in modularization of product families reveals numerous individual cause and
effect impacts of modularity on a firm. There are clearly many interrelated positive and …

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 …

In this paper an approach to combine the basic concept of Digital Twins with research in
product family development applied to civil aviation is presented. Concomitant benefits but …

Manufacturing companies face high demand for products that fulfil individual customer
desires. Recent improvements in additive manufacturing (AM) enable the fabrication of …

This paper presents a method that uses engineering change forecast to identify and
prioritise product components for modularisation. The method uses a matrix-based …