An integrated approach for developing modular product families was developed at the PKT
Institute to create individualized products for globally marketable prices. The integrated PKT …

A modular design strategy both enables, but also demands, parallelism in design activities
and collaboration between a diversity of disciplines in companies, which often involves …

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 …

Modular design allows to reduce costs based on scaling effects. However, due to strong
alternating effects between the resulting modules and products, methods and tools are …

To offer individualized products at globally marketable prices, the Integrated PKT-Approach
for Developing Modular Product Families aims to generate high external product variety …

Modularization of product families affects firms in many ways. Many of them have been
investigated in research and observed in industry. But which effect will most likely occur, by …

The Change from seller's to buyer's market leads to a high variance of individualized
products for most companies. However, a high product variety usually leads to an increased …

Durch unterschiedliche Entwicklungstrends, wie zB die Globalisierung des Wettbewerbs,
dynamische Anforderungen an die Produkte und kürzere Produktlebenszyklen, stehen …

EVALUATING A METHODICAL APPROACH FOR DEVELOPING MODULAR PRODUCT
FAMILIES IN INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS Page 1 DESIGN METHODS 837 INTERNATIONAL …

Dem Aspekt der Strukturierung werden die größten Potentiale zur montagegerechten
Gestaltung varianter Produktfamilien zugesprochen. Eine Untersuchung des Stands der …