Determination of the required product platform flexibility from a change perspective

Bauer, Wolfgang R.; Elezi, Fatos; Roth, Michael; Maurer, Maik

doi:10.1109/syscon.2015.7116723

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“…Change and cancellation costs reduce company profits, as they have a negative impact on the margins of the affected products each time they occur [3,7]. Because several products in the manufacturing industry are based on modular systems [8] it is necessary to reduce change and cancellation costs to a minimum.…”

Section: Experimental Design Materials and Methodsmentioning

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Data on the current state of modular systems in a highly dynamic environment: Empirical analyses in the manufacturing industry and automotive industry of Germany

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Today, many companies develop modular systems to realise considerable product differentiation and variation while simultaneously reducing costs through economies of scale [1]. Designing these modular systems to be lasting and robust in a highly dynamic environment [2], avoiding subsequent modification cost [3,4] and staying innovative over the product lifecycle is crucial for sustainable success in an increasingly competitive market [5]. Two closely related surveys were carried out on the initial situation described above. The first survey deals with the major conflict between planning reliability and flexibility with regard to future boundary conditions that the described challenges lead to. The data presented in this article on the first survey was collected from German companies, mainly from the automotive industry, developing and manufacturing complex products using modular systems. Other represented companies operate in the machine and plant construction industry. The survey comprises the answers of 39 participants, gathered via online questionnaire. The 17 questions of the survey are divided into two topics: characteristics of the participants, and the problem description of modular systems in highly dynamic environments and the management thereof. The second survey deals with the anticipation of innovations in the design of modular systems and the selection of the right choice from a variety of possible innovations to be considered. The data presented in this article on the second survey was collected from German automotive manufacturers, which develop and manufacture complex products using modular systems. The survey comprises the answers of 501 participants, gathered via online questionnaire. The 14 questions of the survey are divided into two topics: characteristics of the participants, and the problem description of modular systems and the management thereof. The data obtained allows the identification of existing deficits and dedicated research on solutions.

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Section: Experimental Design Materials and Methodsmentioning

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Data on the current state of modular systems in a highly dynamic environment: Empirical analyses in the manufacturing industry and automotive industry of Germany

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“…Changes can be caused internally, for example, due to errors in the technical functions of a product [47]. 3) Variety of environments: Changes made in laws, standards, and regulations as well as society after products are launched, weather, new company strategy, social/political factors, diversification, etc., [48], [49]…”

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Integrated PSS Roadmapping Using Customer Needs and Technology Change Likelihood

Pessoa

Gowda²

2022

IEEE Trans. Eng. Manage.

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A product roadmap depicts the vision and direction of a product offering over time. It is a guiding strategic document as well as a plan for executing the strategy, which communicates the why and what behind the product's development. Fulfilling the market demand for solutions composed of products and services requires new approaches for roadmapping. This article presents a method for the definition and managing of a product-service system (PSS) roadmap based on both the market needs and the technology change likelihood. In this way, an integrated management of the PSS's product and service shares is performed, which also supports the shift from different PSS types (product-, use-or performanceoriented). The proposed approach is based on the acceptance, ephemerality, importance, operationalize, and urgency variables: importance and urgency relate to market requirements, acceptance, and operational relate to technology choices, and ephemerality relates to how both the requirements and/or technologies are likely to change in a given time horizon. To illustrate and evaluate the approach, a roadmap is developed for a home appliance. The results show the proposed method's efficiency for both setting the product architecture and defining and managing the roadmap. IndexTerms-Engineering management, program management, requirements management, research and development management.

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“…How easy it is for that basis to be reused and repurposed can be described as the "flexibility" of the platform, following definition of flexibility: "the ability to change or adapt with little penalty in time, cost, effort or performance" (Upton, 1994). Analysis of flexibility has been approached from many perspectives like from the management side by (Jana et al, 2018), or from a change viewpoint (Bauer et al, 2015). Other investigations in to the behaviour of systems exposed to change and the propagation of its effects has led to the development of mathematical models to predict the risk of the change (Clarkson et al, 2004).…”

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Identification of Technology Integration Challenges at Two Global Automotive Oems

Fern

2020

Proc. Des. Soc.: Des. Conf.

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Platform design has been firmly established in the automotive industry as a strategy to provide wider product variety while maintaining cost effective production. But this strategy can struggle to keep up with the pace and nature of emerging technologies. This paper reviews the existing approaches to modelling product platforms, and showcases the challenges at OEMs introducing new technological innovations in their platforms. A gap is identified in the methods to assess the ability of existing platforms to integrate new technologies whenever they become available.

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Determination of the required product platform flexibility from a change perspective

Cited by 6 publications

References 14 publications

Data on the current state of modular systems in a highly dynamic environment: Empirical analyses in the manufacturing industry and automotive industry of Germany

Data on the current state of modular systems in a highly dynamic environment: Empirical analyses in the manufacturing industry and automotive industry of Germany

Integrated PSS Roadmapping Using Customer Needs and Technology Change Likelihood

Identification of Technology Integration Challenges at Two Global Automotive Oems

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