Direct air capture (DAC) can provide an impactful, engineered approach to combat climate
change by removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air. However, to meet climate goals …

The current manufacturing environment aims at getting an increasing variety of customised,
high-quality products in flexible batches. The dynamic market demand, the short product …

How do technologies develop? This study proposes the theory of technological parasitism
that is based on the idea that parasite-host relationships between technologies and …

This paper is a review of research in product development, which we define as the
transformation of a market opportunity into a product available for sale. Our review is broad …

This paper reviews the smallness, modularity and reactor-design aspects of emerging small
modular reactors (SMRs). It is shown that small (whether in physical size or power level) …

The present paper presents an overview of existing research on the definition of modular
product design and its benefits. Modularity has been discussed in terms of product …

In an effort to improve customization for today's highly competitive global marketplace, many
companies are utilizing product families and platform-based product development to …

The implementations of design for assembly and design for manufacture (DFM) led to
enormous benefits including simplification of products, reduction of assembly and …

Increasingly heterogeneous markets, together with shorter product life cycles, are forcing
many companies to simultaneously compete in the three domains of product, process, and …

Research in operations management suggests that firms can mitigate the negative impact of
product variety on operational performance by deliberately pursuing modularity in the …