TY - GEN
T1 - A product platform concept exploration method for product family design
AU - Simpson, Timothy W.
AU - Maier, Jonathan R.A.
AU - Mistree, Farrokh
N1 - Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge .David Schooley and Doug Dawson for their help in developing the universal motor analyses. Timothy W. Simpson was supported by a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship during his doctoral study. We also acknowledge NSF Grant DMI-9612327 for its support. The cost of computer time was underwritten by the Systems Realization Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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© 1999 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). All rights reserved.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - Today's highly competitive, global marketplace is redefining the way companies do business. Many companies are being faced with the challenge of providing as much variety as possible for the market with as little variety as possible between products in order to maintain economies of scale while satisfying a wide range of customer requirements. Developing a family of products-a group of related products derived from a common product platform-provides an efficient and effective means to realize sufficient product variety to satisfy a range of customer demands. In this paper the Product Platform Concept Exploration Method (PPCEM) is presented, providing a Method that facilitates the synthesis and Exploration of a common Product Platform Concept that can be scaled into an appropriate family of products. As an example, the PPCEM is employed to design a family of universal electric motors that are also compared against a benchmark group of individually designed motors. The focus in this paper, however, is on the PPCEM and not on the results, per se.
AB - Today's highly competitive, global marketplace is redefining the way companies do business. Many companies are being faced with the challenge of providing as much variety as possible for the market with as little variety as possible between products in order to maintain economies of scale while satisfying a wide range of customer requirements. Developing a family of products-a group of related products derived from a common product platform-provides an efficient and effective means to realize sufficient product variety to satisfy a range of customer demands. In this paper the Product Platform Concept Exploration Method (PPCEM) is presented, providing a Method that facilitates the synthesis and Exploration of a common Product Platform Concept that can be scaled into an appropriate family of products. As an example, the PPCEM is employed to design a family of universal electric motors that are also compared against a benchmark group of individually designed motors. The focus in this paper, however, is on the PPCEM and not on the results, per se.
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U2 - 10.1115/DETC99/DTM-8761
DO - 10.1115/DETC99/DTM-8761
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80052908610
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
SP - 199
EP - 210
BT - 11th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 1999 Design Engineering Technical Conferences, DETC 1999
Y2 - 12 September 1999 through 16 September 1999
ER -