... York , pp. 245 – 269 . [2] Pirmoradi , Z. , Wang , G. G. , Simpson , T. W. , 2014 , “ A Review of Recent Literature in Product Family Design and Platform-Based Product Development ,” Advances in Product Family and Product Platform Design , T. W. Simpson , ed., Springer...

... of innovative devices design of machine elements design optimization design validation multidisciplinary design and optimization product design product family design Structural optimization Topology optimization user-centered design Massachusetts Institute of Technology 10.13039/100006919...

... with complementarity constraints Nash equilibrium oligopoly product design product family design product platform design Increased globalization has provided opportunities for companies to reduce costs by creating common platforms across products sold in different countries [ 1 ]. Examples of product...

... product family design Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 10.13039/501100001659 Product development faces the challenge of covering an ever-increasing external variety demanded by the market. This is accompanied by an increase in internal variety and the resulting increase in complexity...

... , 45 ]; and (3) simultaneous consideration of both [ 46 , 47 ]. Multi-objective optimization is a class of optimization problems where multiple competing objectives are considered simultaneously and is a popular approach to product family design. Multi-objective optimization approaches can...

... the new methodology developed in this paper. This example is a first good illustration of how sustainability can be considered while keeping the security components in product family design. The initial findings validate the usefulness of the framework for designing product structures and selecting...

.... , and Srinivasan , K. , 1990 , “ Broader Product Line: A Necessity to Achieve Success? ,” Manage. Sci. , 36 ( 10 ), pp. 1216 – 1232 . 10.1287/mnsc.36.10.1216 [47] Jiao , J. R. , Simpson , T. W. , and Siddique , Z. , 2007 , “ Product Family Design and Platform-Based Product Development...

... . 10.2307/41165792 [10] Kwak , M. , and Kim , H. M. , 2011 , “ Assessing Product Family Design From an End-of-Life Perspective ,” Eng. Optim. , 43 ( 3 ), pp. 233 – 255 . 10.1080/0305215X.2010.482990 [11] Ma , J. , and Kremer , G. E. O. , 2015 , “ A Fuzzy Logic-Based...

... and/or standards, and organizational capabilities. The angle factor in the product family evaluation graph (PFEG) can be used to find best the product family design option among sets of alternatives based on their performance with respect to the ideal commonality/variety trade-off. So whereas Kota et al. [ 8...

... in methods of product family design. We make use of these references in our work here to consider individual impacts of modularity. Modularization has become a well-established approach to introduce a variety of products to different markets by reducing the internal variety of components and processes...

... Product Architecture ,” Des. Stud. , 22 ( 5 ), pp. 409 – 424 . 10.1016/S0142-694X(01)00004-7 [27] Gonzalez-Zugasti , J. , 2000 , “ Models for Platform-Based Product Family Design ,” Ph.D. thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology . [28] Yu , J. , Gonzalez-Zugasti , J...

... , A. , Michalek , J. J. , and Simpson , T. W. , 2009 , “ An Efficient Decomposed Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm for Solving the Joint Product Platform Selection and Product Family Design Problem With Generalized Commonality ,” Struct. Multidiscip. Optim. , 39 ( 2 ), pp. 187 – 201 . 10.1007/s00158-008...

... Computer-aided design Conceptual design Design evaluation Design visualization Multidisciplinary design Product design Product family design Shape grammars Optimization It is widely accepted that product appearance plays a significant role in ensuring the market success of products [ 1 – 5...

... and Supply Chains With One Manufacturing Firm and Multiple Cooperative Suppliers ,” Int. J. Prod. Econ. , 124 ( 1 ), pp. 121 – 136 . 10.1016/j.ijpe.2009.10.016 [15] Fujita , K. , 2014 , “ Global Product Family Design: Simultaneous Optimal Design of Module Commonalization and Supply Chain...

... methods in a literature review. A new approach to quantify these cost effects to support concept selection during modular product family design is introduced. The one-time effort, which depends on known, similar or new components, is shown on the left-hand side of Table 2 . For every considered process...

.... , Siddique , Z. , and Jiao , J. , eds., 2005 , Product Platform and Product Family Design: Methods and Applications , Springer , New York . [2] Jiao , J. , Simpson , T. W. , and Siddique , Z. , 2007 , “ Product Family Design and Platform-Based Product Development: A State...

.... Assoc. Editor: Carolyn Seepersad. 14 10 2015 09 04 2016 Product family design Product platform design Systems design A product family is a set of products that have been developed from a common product platform to respond to customers in various market segments [ 1...

...; final manuscript received January 6, 2016; published online February 5, 2016. Editor: Shapour Azarm. 04 02 2015 06 01 2016 Design for manufacturing Design methodology Design optimization Product family design Product platform design AM represents a collection...

... transformations. As another approach, the box boundaries may be moved to extend the permissible range of one parameter at the expense of the permissible range of another parameter. Uniqueness of result. According to the problem statement in Sec. 2.2 , several different product family designs may...

... 2015 24 08 2015 Design methodology Product family design In response to increasing customer demands, the proliferation of product variety has changed the manufacturing paradigm since the late 1980 s to provide more customized products at near mass production cost. For example...