Developing agile platform assets – exploring ways to reach beyond modularisation at five product development companies

Abstract

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Supporting the Reuse of Design Assets in ETO-Based Components—A Case Study from an Industrialised Post and Beam Building System

“…Every project is unique, and the reuse of assets is limited. In this scenario, utilising a traditional component or modular-based platform by taking advantage of clearly predefined components does not suffice [15].…”

“…The DPA was developed to support platform-based development for ETO-based companies [17] when traditional platform concepts do not suffice. The DPA approach is a feasible way to increase the reuse of different assets and provide a coherent environment to be used as a means to systematically develop, manage, and use engineering assets in ETO industries [15]. The DPA information model encompassed various objects related to processes, synthesis resources, product constructs, assessment resources, solutions, and projects [16].…”

“…KBE methods can be utilised to achieve design automation, to effectively capture knowledge by storing rules, relations, and facts [34]. KBE is an approach to support the design of unique products and can generate large continuous ranges of variant designs compared to the discrete solution space provided by the configuration of pre-defined modules [15].…”

“…The literature reviews show many examples of successful implementation of platform-based product development strategies. However, these are based on either component or modular product architecture [15]. There is a lack of methods and tools that support the designers to manage ETO components and become more flexible towards customer needs and creative in the IHB design process.…”

A Method to Explore Product Risk in Product Lifecycle Management of Configured Products

“…The integration of different product variants does not come with any monetary benefits if it is not organized through a holistic controlling approach. Cost schemes of modular products can also be established by decomposing the product family into generic modules to support cost calculation (Raudberget et al, 2019). Thus, enterprises use configuration management in order to establish consistency with requirements, ensure accuracy of meeting targets, and maintain performance throughout a product's entire lifecycle.…”