Modularisation of system architecture to improve system recoverability: a unique application of design structure matrix

Enabling the identification of multi-product assembly system architectures – a new method and its application in the automotive industry

“…Modularity similarity of product assemblies are evaluated based on DSM by Qiao et al (2017) who use a metric which is calculating a theoretical 'cost' of dissimilar clusters by counting the number of elements which are not allocated to the same cluster. Recent work couples DSM with axiomatic design by clustering design parameters (DP) in DSM matrices in order to improve the design matrix containing the relations between functional requirements (FR) and DP (Mollajan and Iranmanesh 2021;Park et al 2022;Tamayo et al 2019). A less-used application of DSM is its application to assembly system layout design as presented by Gong, Liu, and Jiao (2017) who use weighted assembly process plans in order to determine assembly system clusters in the plant layout.…”

A Comprehensive Decision-Making Approach for Strategic Product Module Planning in Mass Customization

“…Tilstra et al [46] developed a high-definition design structure matrix (HDDSM) to analyze product component relationships and evaluate product structural features. Ali et al [47] used the DSM and axiomatic design theory to modularize the system structure. It can be seen that the DSM is an important analytical tool for system modeling and design, especially for design decomposition and integration.…”