Overview
- Discusses how product platform and product family design can be used successfully to: increase variety within a product line, shorten manufacturing lead times, reduce overall costs within a product line
- Includes real-life case studies that explain the benefits of platform based product development
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Designing products and product families so they may be customized for the global marketplace and achieving these goals in abbreviated time period, while maintaining production efficiencies are the keys to successful manufacturing operations. The research on these areas has matured rapidly over the last decade.
Today's highly competitive and volatile marketplace is reshaping the way many companies do business as rapid innovation and mass customization offer a new form of competitive advantage. In response, companies like Sony, Black and Decker, and Kodak have successfully implemented strategies to design and develop an entire family of products to satisfy a wide variety of customer requirements.
Product Platform and Product Family Design: Methods and Applications discusses how product platform and product family design can be used successfully to: -increase variety within a product line, -shorten manufacturing lead times, - reduce overall costs within a product line.
The material available here will serve as both a reference and a hands-on guide for practitioners involved in the design, planning and production of products. Included are real-life case studies that explain the benefits of platform based product development.
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Platform-Based Product Family Development
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Front-End Issues Related to Platform-Based Product Family Development
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Optimization Methods to Support Platform-Based Product Family Development
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Back-End Issues Related to Platform-Based Product Family Development
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Product Platform and Product Family Design
Book Subtitle: Methods and Applications
Editors: Timothy W. Simpson, Zahed Siddique, Jianxin Roger Jiao
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-29197-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-25721-1Published: 24 October 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3824-4Published: 29 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-29197-0Published: 20 March 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 548
Topics: Industrial and Production Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Design