NDLI: Linking 10 Years of Modular Design Research: Alternative Methods and Tool Chain Sequences to Support Product Platform Design

Content Provider	The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Digital Collection
Author	Otto, Kevin Hölttä-Otto, Katja Timothy, W. Simpson
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	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 platform methods have been developed over the last decade within the design research community. However, comparison and integration of suitable methods is difficult since the methods have, for the most part, been developed in isolation from one another. In reviewing the literature in modularity and product platforms, we create a generic set of twelve platform design activities. We then examine a set of product platform development processes used at several different companies, and from this form a generic sequence of the activities. We then associate the various developed methods to the sequence, thereby enabling the chaining together of the various modular and platform design methods developed by the community.
Sponsorship	Design Engineering Division Computers and Information in Engineering Division
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780791855898
DOI	10.1115/DETC2013-12523
Volume Number	Volume 3B: 39th Design Automation Conference
Conference Proceedings	ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
Language	English
Publisher Date	2013-08-04
Publisher Place	Portland, Oregon, USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Design Chain Design methodology Software development
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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