In this paper we focus on scale-based product families derived from scalable product
platforms that can be exploited from both a functional and a manufacturing standpoint to …

In many cases, capabilities for providing product variety may be enhanced efficiently and
effectively by creating families of products based on product platforms. However, the actual …

The design of module interfaces is very important when develo** so-called modular
products. The interfaces should not only be designed for the module variety but should also …

The Archimedean and preemptive formulations that are currently used in the goal
formulation of the Compromise Decision Support Problem (DSP) suffer two major drawbacks …

This paper presents a systematic method for designing part families whose production costs
are insensitive to changes in production plans due to market demand fluctuations. A unified …

This paper presents the status of an ongoing project to develop a comprehensive suite of
test problems suitable for comparing methods for scale-based product platform design …

Design optimization is an important engineering design activity. Research on design
optimization has considered better solution methods as well as novel formulations. Although …