Product Platform Design: A Graph Grammar Approach

Siddique, Zahed; Rosen, David W.; Woodruff, George W.

doi:10.1115/detc99/dtm-8762

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“…Shea et al 52 integrated shape grammars into a new cognitive approach for the autonomous design-to-fabrication system. Grammars have also been used for product configuration modelling, 53,54 , optimal configuration 38,55 and combining product configuration with behavioural aspects and finite element simulation. 56…”

Section: Grammars and Their Applications In Designmentioning

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Styling of cars: is there a relationship between the style of cars and the culture identity of a specific country?

Bluntzer

Ostrosi

Sagot

2014

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D:

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Today, with globalization, an important characteristic of a car's brand should be its clear and precise identity. In order to obtain a successful brand, company managers should continuously be innovative without forgetting the product history of the brand and should use the culture of the country as a value system and as an inspirational background. The goal of this paper is to analyse the relationship between the car's style and some implicit references such as the culture identity of a specific country. The analysis is carried out on the basis of the extracted data on and study of characteristic styling lines of the cars. French cars (Peugeot, Citroën and Renault) as well as German cars (Volkswagen) are selected and analysed. It is found that specific styling lines are particular to French cars. From this analysis, it is concluded that a French style identity is implicitly embedded in the car's design.

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Section: Grammars and Their Applications In Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Styling of cars: is there a relationship between the style of cars and the culture identity of a specific country?

Bluntzer

Ostrosi

Sagot

2014

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D:

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“…A new approach to platform planning is the use of agent-based synthesis software 9 . Other approaches to Platform Development include a graph-grammar approach 25 , Physical Programming 26 , Genetic Algorithm 27 . A simpler approach to platform planning can be taken by using a modularity matrix 28 .…”

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An Online Learning Tool For Product Platform Planning

Srinivasan¹,

Terpenny

Shooter

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2005 Annual Conference Proceedings

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Product Platform Planning is an emerging philosophy that calls for the planned development and deployment of families of related products. It is markedly different from the traditional product development process, which focuses on optimized designs for individual products. This is a relatively new development in engineering design, which is not typically a part of an engineer's education. Furthermore, it is different from traditional engineering topics in that it requires an integration of principles from both management and engineering design. All this makes for a new and different topic for which educational material needs to be developed. This paper presents and describes an online learning tool that includes a tutorial, cases, and a glossary in a multimedia format hosted on the Internet. The tutorial presents the basic concepts as well as current research on planning and architecting families of products. The case study section has three cases based on a family of popular power tools. The cases, of increasing complexity, present information in the form of function diagrams, assembly diagrams, individual component pictures, usage information and market segmentation data. Links are provided to helpful sites, as well as to relevant sections in the tutorial. Learning and practice activities are also presented. This paper and associated web-based materials are intended for educators interested in incorporating Product Platform Planning in the design curriculum as well as practicing design engineers and product planners in industry interested in improving their knowledge and skills in this strategic approach to product development.

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Characterizing complex product architectures

Sharman

Yassine

2003

Systems Engineering

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Due to the large-scale nature of complex product architectures, it is necessary to develop some form of abstraction in order to be able to describe and grasp the structure of the product, facilitating product modularization. In this paper we develop three methods for describing product architectures: (a) the Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM), (b) Molecular Diagrams (MD), and (c) Visibility-Dependency (VD) signature diagrams. Each method has its own language (and abstraction), which can be used to qualitatively or quantitatively characterize any given architecture spanning the modular-integrated continuum. A consequence of abstraction is the loss of some detail. So, it is important to choose the correct method (and resolution) to characterize the architecture in order to retain the salient details. The proposed methods are suited for describing architectures of varying levels of complexity and detail. The three methods are demonstrated using a sequence of illustrative simple examples and a case-study analysis of a complex product architecture for an industrial gas turbine.

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Product Platform Design: A Graph Grammar Approach

Cited by 35 publications

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Styling of cars: is there a relationship between the style of cars and the culture identity of a specific country?

Styling of cars: is there a relationship between the style of cars and the culture identity of a specific country?

An Online Learning Tool For Product Platform Planning

Characterizing complex product architectures

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