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 …

Human-centred design in industry 4.0: case study review and opportunities for future research

H Nguyen Ngoc, G Lasa, I Iriarte - Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2022 - Springer
The transition to industry 4.0 has impacted factories, but it also affects the entire value chain.
In this sense, human-centred factors play a core role in transitioning to sustainable …

Open platform strategies and innovation: Granting access vs. devolving control

K Boudreau - Management science, 2010 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper studies two fundamentally distinct approaches to opening a technology platform
and their different impacts on innovation. One approach is to grant access to a platform and …

Let a thousand flowers bloom? An early look at large numbers of software app developers and patterns of innovation

KJ Boudreau - Organization Science, 2012 - pubsonline.informs.org
In this paper, I study the effect of adding large numbers of producers of application software
programs (“apps”) to leading handheld computer platforms, from 1999 to 2004. To isolate …

Product variety management

H ElMaraghy, G Schuh, W ElMaraghy, F Piller… - Cirp Annals, 2013 - Elsevier
A great challenge facing industry today is managing variety throughout the entire products
life cycle. Drivers of products variety, its benefits, pre-requisites and associated complexity …

Change propagation analysis in complex technical systems

M Giffin, O De Weck, G Bounova, R Keller, C Eckert… - 2009 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Understanding how and why changes propagate during engineering design is critical
because most products and systems emerge from predecessors and not through clean …

Advances in product family and product platform design

TW Simpson, J Jiao, Z Siddique, K Hölttä-Otto - New YorN: Springer, 2014 - Springer
Increased product variety, decreased costs, faster time to market. The motives for designing
product platforms and develo** families of products have changed little these past three …

A new function-based patent knowledge retrieval tool for conceptual design of innovative products

L Liu, Y Li, Y **ong, D Cavallucci - Computers in Industry, 2020 - Elsevier
The reuse of design knowledge within a specific domain is currently a major research focus
in product design. However, the importance of support from cross-domain knowledge is …

Global views on modular design research: linking alternative methods to support modular product family concept development

K Otto, K Hölttä-Otto… - Journal of …, 2016 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Concurrent design optimization of powertrain component modules in a family of electric vehicles

M Clemente, M Salazar, T Hofman - Applied Energy, 2025 - Elsevier
We present a modeling and optimization framework to design powertrains for a family of
electric vehicles, focusing on the concurrent sizing of their motors and batteries. Whilst …