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 …

With intense global competition, many manufacturing companies pursue a platform strategy
to develop diverse products belonging to a family, while utilizing available manufacturing …

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 …

Engineering design problems often involve non-linear criterion functions, including
inequality and equality constraints, and a mixture of discrete and continuous design …

With global market competition, product family design and a platform-based strategy have
received a lot of attention for providing sufficient variety of products in an economical way …

Additive manufacturing (AM) has evolved from prototy** to functional part fabrication for a
wide range of applications. Challenges exist in develo** new product design …

The variability of products affects customers' satisfaction by increasing flexibility in decision-
making for choosing a product based on their preferences in competitive market …

ABSTRACT A product family has been applied to minimise development costs and
maximise profits. Since products in the product family have similar functions and product …

The product platform strategy has emerged as one of the important enablers of mass
customisation where common components used across different product variants are …

Design for optimal commonality in product families is different from design for optimal
performance. While optimal performance may be achieved by the choice of appropriate …