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 …

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 …

This paper addresses two important fundamental areas in product family formulation that
have recently begun to receive great attention. First is the incorporation of market demand …

An effectively designed product platform is vital to the final product family derived from it. A
product platform design consists of platform configuration to decide which variables to make …

With highly fragmented market and increased competition, platform-based product family
design has been recognized as an effective method to construct a product line that satisfies …

A successful product family design method should achieve an optimal tradeoff among a set
of conflicting objectives, which involves maximizing commonality across the family of …

Many companies are using product platform concepts to gain economies of scale and to
identify new market opportunities. Though the area of product platforming continues to be …

This thesis presents an approach to cost optimize product families. It combines both a
technical and an economical perspective to identify a cost optimized product family design …

Design optimization is an important engineering design activity. Research on design
optimization has considered better solution methods as well as novel formulations. Although …

The goal of this research is to propose a data mining based design framework that can be
used to solve complex systems design problems in a timely and efficient manner, with the …