Principles of Product Flexibility

Qureshi, Atif; Murphy, Jeremy; Kuchinsky, Benjamin; Seepersad, Carolyn Conner; Wood, Kristin L.; Jensen, Daniel D.

doi:10.1115/detc2006-99583

Cited by 31 publications

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“…Besides [11] further authors ( [12], [13], [14] and [15]) address research about the flexibility of engineering products. All these researchers agree on the fact that the flexibility of a product acts as a suitable enabler for product architecture modifications.…”

Section: Principles Of Product Flexibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Customer individual product development: Methodology for product architecture modification

Holle

Straub

Roth

et al. 2016

2016 Annual IEEE Systems Conference (SysCon)

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In order to withstand the increasingly global competition companies try to differentiate themselves by fulfilling as many individual customer requirements as possible. Promising, in this regard, are so-called individualized products, where customers actively intervene in the development process by using web-based toolkits. However, avoiding functional or safety-relevant feedback between individualisable and nonindividualisable product components under the condition to maximize the geometric solution space on part of the customers represent major challenges for the product development. In order to cope with that, a three phase methodology for product architecture modifications is presented in this paper. In conclusion an evaluation is presented which illustrates the usability and traceability of the methodical approach.

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Section: Principles Of Product Flexibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Customer individual product development: Methodology for product architecture modification

Holle

Straub

Roth

et al. 2016

2016 Annual IEEE Systems Conference (SysCon)

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“…Qureshi et al (2006) propose 17 different strategies to achieve flexibility in a product, grouped into four types: a modular approach, a special approach, an interface decoupling approach and an adjustability approach based on the principle of TRIZ (e.g. Altshuller, 1998), Martin & Ishii (2002)).…”

Section: Design For Flexibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The 17 th of Qureshi et al's strategic principles, referred to enabling "the device to respond to minor changes, by controlling the tuning of design parameters". Both Qureshi et al (2006) andMuir Wood et al (2010) advocate assessing the flexibility of a product by systematically anticipating and rating the potential changes to 'future proof' the design. Ross and Hastings (2005) advocate assessing the changeability of a system by mapping out the tradespace, i.e.…”

Section: Design For Flexibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Components Margins through the Product Lifecycle

Eckert

Earl

Lebjioui

et al. 2013

Product Lifecycle Management for Society

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Engineering change is ubiquitous throughout the product lifecycle to meet new requirements or deal with emerging problems in the product.. Components have a certain capacity to buffer the impact of changes before they pass changes on to other components. These buffers are margins on the components which exceed the current requirements. Typically these margins are designed into a product at the beginning and eroded in the course of the design process or during future upgrades. Fundamental design decisions are being taken based on an understanding of the margins available when considering design alternatives. This paper argues that the knowledge and understanding of these margins is the key to managing engineering changes through the product lifecycle. By tracking key product margins a company can assess when an engineering change could lead to costly knock-on effects.

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“…A few approaches have been proposed in that direction. Qureshi et al (2006) defined "product flexibility" as the adaptability of a system in response to changing factors. Since flexible products were realized with ad hoc methods that rely on the experience and intuition of the designer, they presented a set of formal principles for guiding the design of flexible products.…”

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Design Requirements in Software and Engineering Systems

Eleiche

Ahmad²,

Elish³

2012

Industrial Engineering and Management Systems

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The subject of "Design Requirements" (DR) is central to the design of software and engineering systems. The main reason for this is that quality aspects are usually closely tied to requirements, among other things. In this review paper, we consider how the subject of requirements is being managed in these two seemingly different design disciplines. Two important aspects are covered, namely: (a) requirements development, describing various activities leading to requirements documentation, and (b) requirements change management, describing various activities needed for the proper treatment of the inevitable changes in requirements. Similarities and differences on how these two aspects are handled in software and engineering systems are highlighted. It is concluded from this literature survey that the management of software requirements is quite coherent and well established as a science. On the other hand, management of engineering systems requirements suffer from being unstructured, in particular when requirements changes are involved. Important gaps and future important research areas are identified.

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Principles of Product Flexibility

Cited by 31 publications

References 14 publications

Customer individual product development: Methodology for product architecture modification

Customer individual product development: Methodology for product architecture modification

Components Margins through the Product Lifecycle

Design Requirements in Software and Engineering Systems

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