Development of sustainable platform for modular product family: a case study

Defining product platform architecture is a critical issue to design and develop product variants. Different factors are highly dependent on the architecture type, such as number of variants, to measure modularity level, component commonality, market demand, etc. It is directly related to manage pro...

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Published in:	Production planning & control 2017-06, Vol.28 (6-8), p.512-523
Main Authors:	Shamsuzzoha, Ahm, Helo, Petri
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Architecture Case studies case study Commonality Design design checklist Designers Guidelines Modular design Modularity Product design Product development product family design Sustainability Sustainable development Sustainable product platform
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Summary:	Defining product platform architecture is a critical issue to design and develop product variants. Different factors are highly dependent on the architecture type, such as number of variants, to measure modularity level, component commonality, market demand, etc. It is directly related to manage product portfolios and setting up business plan of a company. Before defining a product platform, whether it is modular or integral product designers need to follow specific design guidelines and checklists. This research mainly focuses on to define the platform architecture as well as provides necessary design guidelines and checklists for the product designers. It also highlights an example product of a case company with the objective to clarify/validate the proposed product design approach. In conclusion, this paper outlines the findings from this research and proposed some critical questions need to be answered within the scope of future research potentials.
ISSN:	0953-7287 1366-5871