TY - JOUR
T1 - Sustainable manufacture of scalable product families based on modularity
AU - Mesa, Jaime
AU - Pierce, James
AU - Zuñiga, Jorge
AU - Esparragoza, Iván
AU - Maury, Heriberto
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by COLCIENCIASthrough the Ph.D. National Scholarship Program No 61702. Contract UN-OJ-2014-24072and the office of the Engineering Technology and Commonwealth Engineering at Penn State University.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by COLCIENCIAS through the Ph.D. National Scholarship Program No 61702. Contract UN-OJ-2014-24072 and the office of the Engineering Technology and Commonwealth Engineering at Penn State University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 CIRP
PY - 2021/11
Y1 - 2021/11
N2 - This article presents a redesign methodology based on modularity to minimize resource consumption and reuse components, avoiding the need to replace a whole product with another with higher functional performance. The method employs two decision algorithms to modularize product families that offer the same functionality in different levels (i.e., scalable functions) based on design parameters such as geometry, size, and functional relationships among components. The proposed approach's benefits are demonstrated through a case study of a family of upper limb prostheses. Significant improvements in the manufacturing stage, such as raw material and energy consumption, manufacturing cost, and complexity, were obtained from implementing the method. Other benefits in the use stage were also obtained from modularization, increasing the product family's reuse of components.
AB - This article presents a redesign methodology based on modularity to minimize resource consumption and reuse components, avoiding the need to replace a whole product with another with higher functional performance. The method employs two decision algorithms to modularize product families that offer the same functionality in different levels (i.e., scalable functions) based on design parameters such as geometry, size, and functional relationships among components. The proposed approach's benefits are demonstrated through a case study of a family of upper limb prostheses. Significant improvements in the manufacturing stage, such as raw material and energy consumption, manufacturing cost, and complexity, were obtained from implementing the method. Other benefits in the use stage were also obtained from modularization, increasing the product family's reuse of components.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cirpj.2021.05.011
DO - 10.1016/j.cirpj.2021.05.011
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85107651332
SN - 1755-5817
VL - 35
SP - 80
EP - 95
JO - CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology
JF - CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology
ER -
