Complexity costs evaluation in product families by incorporating change propagation

Reviewing Complexity Costs – What Practice Needs and What Research Contributes

“…Consequently, their approach focuses mostly on the organizational and planning, control, and information complexity in the Vogel and Lasch (2016) framework. Summarizing the different approaches in Table 1, we identify three main groups of approaches: process-/organization-centralized (Schuh, 2005;Bayer, 2010;Wilson and Perumal, 2010), product-/portfolio-centralized (Park and Simpson, 2006;Orfi et al, 2011;Hansen et al, 2012;Bauer et al, 2015;Skirde, 2015, as well as Ripperda and Krause, 2017) and logistic-/supply chain-centralized procedures (Lechner et al, 2011). The analysis further shows that procedures primarily focus on internal complexity and mostly ignore the external dimensions.…”

“…By a summation of the costs of all non-base parts, the complexity costs are revealed (Lechner et al, 2011). Bauer et al (2015) present an extension of the VD-ABC approach. They determine the complexity costs due to engineering changes in products, as their approach identifies the variety-inducing change drivers (VICDs), which are then linked to components and product functions.…”

Interdisciplinary engineering of cyber-physical production systems: highlighting the benefits of a combined interdisciplinary modelling approach on the basis of an industrial case

“…In addition, together with a manufacturer of home appliances, BSH Home Appliances, product architectures were adapted and enriched for one of their variant rich market segments successfully with our approach. Based on this collaboration, a general guideline for industry has been published (Bauer et al 2014(Bauer et al , 2016. This methodology proved feasible for a manufacturer of large medical devices.…”