Methoden zur Entwicklung modularer Produktfamilien

Coping Asynchronous Modular Product Design by Modelling a Systems-in-System

“…Additionally, there is a need to identify and research module drivers at discipline level and linkages between different disciplin-specific components. In this regard, Life Phase Modularization (Blees et al, 2010;Krause and Gebhardt, 2018) provides a good reference model, but module drivers for cross-disciplinarity need to be located and applied within the life phase. Another issue is the integration into an iterative or agile context.…”

“…This resulted in different subsystem boundaries, which, due to interactions with each other, lead to an increased development effort for changes or adaptations. The conceptual adaption on regarding different discipline-specific components in the conducted case study corresponds to an variation of Life Phase Modularization by Blees et al (2010), which runs one level higher than the development disciplines and aims for cross-departmental harmonization (Krause and Gebhardt, 2018). By this means, different drivers of specific development disciplines can be considered and integrated into the design process.…”

“…There are also approaches that represent the product-strategic view, such as Modular Function Deployment by Erixon (1998) or Life Phase Modularization by Blees et al (2010). In addition, there are also approaches that combine both views, such as the Product Family Master Plan (Simpson et al, 2012) or the Integrated PKT Approach (Krause and Gebhardt, 2018). Based on this, the importance of multi-and cross-disciplinarity in those modular design approaches was investigated.…”

“…The motivation for the topic of this paper is based, among other things, on field observations in which increasing flexibility and customer individualization have an impact on the design of mechatronic systems and modular product families (Albers et al, 2018;Kuhl et al, 2021). In addition, manufacturing companies are facing highly competitive pressure induced by long-term megatrends such as increasing globalization or an accelerated technology cycle (Krause and Gebhardt, 2018). Market pressures and new business models to meet these requirements also change the way system architecture design is considered (Skogstad et al, 2022;Gauss et al, 2022;Seiler et al, 2019;Wynn, 2010).…”

“…Many of the pressures mentioned can be addressed by developing modular product families. In doing so, the development of modular product families reduces internal variety while maintaining or increasing external diversity, which can make complexity more manageable within the company itself (Krause and Gebhardt, 2018). In addition, the life phases upstream and downstream of the development are integrated into the structuring of the product architecture, whereby a harmonization of the system structure can be achieved (Greve et al, 2020;Blees et al, 2010).…”