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 …

Abstract Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
for aerospace applications have brought about new opportunities for the fast-growing …

The design structure matrix (DSM), also called the dependency structure matrix, has become
a widely used modeling framework across many areas of research and practice. The DSM …

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 …

EARTH-CENTRIC spacecraft have been designed for decades as monolithic systems, which
are highly integrated systems conceived to fulfill a set of goals satisfying certain user needs …

Purpose–While the beneficial impact of supply chain integration (SCI) and modular product
design are generally acknowledged, few empirical studies have examined how an …

ABSTRACT Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS) emerged from companies' needs
to increase their responsiveness to an uncertain market, in which customers are increasingly …

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 …

Modular design has become a widely accepted developmental strategy to create products
and systems that can be easily manufactured, upgraded and maintained. In order to achieve …

A modular design strategy both enables, but also demands, parallelism in design activities
and collaboration between a diversity of disciplines in companies, which often involves …