Product development (PD) is a broad field of endeavor dealing with the planning, design,
creation, and marketing of a new product. This revolutionary research domain has become …

Continuous innovation is a key ingredient in maintaining a competitive advantage in the
current dynamic and demanding marketplace. It requires an organization to regularly update …

Product family design utilizes platform-based modularity to enable product variety and
efficient mass-production. While product platform issues have attracted much attention from …

Direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) is a novel class of rapid manufacturing process that can
fabricate functional parts of any complexity. However, the DMLS process takes almost 6–12 …

The Linear multiple regression model is one of the prediction models whose parametric
estimations could be achieved in different methods. With the advent of modern technologies …

Mass customization (MC) is one of the leading strategies used in production industries in
today's market filled with competition. MC is an oxymoron of controlling production costs and …

Value stream map** (VSM) assists in identifying opportunities for improvement by
revealing the inefficiencies in the current state. However, several difficulties appear while …

In actual lot-sizing production-to-order problems for recoverable remanufacturing systems,
input data or parameters are often imprecise or fuzzy. This study develops a novel fuzzy …

Continuous innovation intended to deliver products with new attributes is an imperative
driver for organizations to remain competitive in today's fast changing market. A successful …

Joint decision making of configuration design and supplier selection has been well
recognised for successful development of modular product families. However, the prevailing …