Product Platform And Product Family Design

by Simpson, Timothy W.; Siddique, Zahed; Jiao, Jianxin (Roger)

• ISBN13: 9780387257211
• ISBN10: 0387257217
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-14
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Designing products and product families so they may be customized for the global marketplace and achieving these goals in abbreviated time period, while maintaining production efficiencies are the keys to successful manufacturing operations. The research on these areas has matured rapidly over the last decade. Today's highly competitive and volatile marketplace is reshaping the way many companies do business as rapid innovation and mass customization offer a new form of competitive advantage. In response, companies like Sony, Black & Decker, and Kodak have successfully implemented strategies to design and develop an entire family of products to satisfy a wide variety of customer requirements. Product Platform and Product Family Design: Methods and Applications discusses how product platform and product family design can be used successfully to: - Increase variety within a product line. - Shorten manufacturing lead times. - Reduce overall costs within a product line. The material available here will serve as both a reference and a hands-on guide for practitioners involved in the design, planning and production of products. Included are real-life case studies that explain the benefits of platform based product development.

Table of Contents

Contributing Authors	ix
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
Platform-Based Product Family Development	1	(16)
Timothy W. Simpson
Zahed Siddique
Jianxin (Roger) Jiao
PART I: Front-End Issues Related to Platform-Based Product Family Development	17	(114)
Effective Product Platform Planning in the Front End	19	(8)
Daniel Bowman
Platform-Driven Development of Product Families	27	(22)
Johannes I. M. Halman
Adrian P. Hofer
Wim van Vuuren
Platform Concept Evaluation	49	(24)
Katja Holtta-Otto
Kevin Otto
Platform Leveraging Strategies and Market Segmentation	73	(18)
Tucker J. Marion
Timothy W. Simpson
Product Family Positioning	91	(16)
Jianxin (Roger) Jiao
Yiyang Zhang
Commonality Indices for Assessing Product Families	107	(24)
Henri J. Thevenot
Timothy W. Simpson
PART II: Optimization Methods to Support Platform-Based Product Family Development	131	(172)
Methods for Optimizing Product Platforms and Product Families	133	(24)
Timothy W. Simpson
Commonality Decisions in Product Family Design	157	(29)
Ryan Fellini
Michael Kokkolaras
Panos Y. Papalambros
Product Variety Optimization	186	(39)
Kikuo Fujita
Analytical Target Cascading in Product Family Design	225	(16)
Michael Kokkolaras
Ryan Fellini
Harrison M. Kim
Panos Y. Papalambros
Determining Product Platform Extent	241	(62)
Olivier L. de Weck
PART III: Back-End Issues Related to Platform-Based Product Family Development	303	(154)
A Roadmap For Product Architecture Costing	305	(30)
Sebastian K. Fixson
An Activity-Based Costing Method for Product Family Design	335	(24)
Jaeil Park
Timothy W. Simpson
Product Family Redesign Using a Platform Approach	359	(18)
Zahed Siddique
Process Platform and Production Configuration for Product Families	377	(26)
Jianxin (Roger) Jiao
Lianfeng Zhang
Shaligram Pokharel
Measuring Shape Commonality	403	(18)
Zahed Siddique
Manojkumar Natarajan
Process Parameter Platform Design to Manage Workstation Capacity	421	(36)
Christopher B. Williams
Janet K. Allen
David. W. Rosen
Farrokh Mistree
PART IV: Applications of Platform-Based Product Family Development	457	(72)
Ice Scraper Product Family Development at Innovation Factory	459	(16)
Steven B. Shooter
Architecting and Implementing Profitable Product Families and Shared Engineering Platforms	475	(24)
Srinivas Nidamarthi
Harshavardhan Karandikar
A Case Study of the Product Design Generator	499	(14)
Gregory M. Roach
Jordan J. Cox
Product Platform Management Practice at Cetetherm	513	(16)
Tobias Holmqvist
Magnus Persson
Karin Uller
References	529	(16)
Index	545