Product family design and platform-based product development: a state-of-the-art review

J Jiao, TW Simpson, Z Siddique - Journal of intelligent Manufacturing, 2007‏ - Springer
Product family design and platform-based product development has received much attention
over the last decade. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art …

Product platform design and customization: Status and promise

TW Simpson - Ai Edam, 2004‏ - cambridge.org
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 …

Modular and platform methods for product family design: literature analysis

A Jose, M Tollenaere - Journal of Intelligent manufacturing, 2005‏ - Springer
After the industrial revolution, the literature has mentioned different “principles” to allow a
better management of the production and product life cycle activities. For example the …

An approach to decision-based design with discrete choice analysis for demand modeling

HJ Wassenaar, W Chen - J. Mech. Des., 2003‏ - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In this paper, we present the importance of using a single criterion approach to Decision-
Based Design (DBD) by examining the limitations of multicriteria approaches. We propose in …

A market-driven approach to product family design

D Kumar, W Chen, TW Simpson - International Journal of …, 2009‏ - Taylor & Francis
In an effort to meet the diverse needs of today's highly competitive global marketplace better,
many companies are utilizing product families and platform-based product development to …

Assessing variable levels of platform commonality within a product family using a multiobjective genetic algorithm

TW Simpson, BS D'Souza - Concurrent Engineering, 2004‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Many companies are using product families and platform-based product development to
reduce development costs and lead-time while increasing product variety and …

[كتاب][B] Modular product platform design

K Hölttä-Otto - 2005‏ - aaltodoc.aalto.fi
Modular product platforms, sets of common modules that are shared among a product
family, can bring cost savings and enable introduction of multiple product variants quicker …

The evolution of the platform concept: A systematic review

ALF Facin, LA de Vasconcelos Gomes… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Platforms have been considered as a paradigm for managing new product development and
innovation. Since their introduction, studies on platforms have introduced multiple …

Effective product family design using physical programming

A Messac, MP Martinez, TW Simpson - Engineering Optimization, 2002‏ - Taylor & Francis
In response to today's highly competitive global marketplace, many companies are utilizing
product families-groups of related products derived from a product platform-to maintain …

A genetic algorithm based method for product family design optimization

BS D'Souza, TW Simpson - … and information in …, 2002‏ - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Increased commonality in a family of products can simplify manufacturing and reduce the
associated costs and lead-times. There is a tradeoff, however, between commonality and …