Product portfolio map: a visual tool for supporting product variant discovery and structuring

Ulonska, Sören; Welo, Torgeir

doi:10.1007/s40436-014-0077-y

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“…This paper suggests and applied additions to a product portfolio analysis found in Ulonska & Welo (2014). Our findings require further research to confirm if they are applicable in other similar industries and companies.…”

Section: Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 65%

“…Levandowski et al 2013 state that the costs are due to the complex processes of configuring products. One important cause of the complexity is traced to diffuse/tacit knowledge in the organizations (Levandowski et al 2013, Ulonska & Welo 2014. Hence, revealing tacit knowledge is essential to supply personalized solutions at a competitive price.…”

Section: Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

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Product portfolio mapping used to structure a mature sub‐system with large variation – A case study

Sundet

Syverud

Kokkula

et al. 2021

INCOSE International Symp

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Managing mature products with high variability is an increasing concern for industrial companies. Product variability affects the operational streamlining efforts from product design to production, inventory, selling, and service. In this research, we follow a case where the company faces challenges in manufacturing cost and configuration of both existing and new variants. The purpose of this study is to investigate how product portfolio mapping can structure technical product data to ease the challenges. We analyzed more than 13,000 sales orders executed between 1997‐2019 of a mature sub‐system with large variability. We used Systems Architecting principles in combination with requirements from manufacturing and logistics to create a generic architecture that allows variability in the manufacturing flow. We added interface mapping, the manufacturing view, and the logistic view to enhance product portfolio analysis found in literature. We found significant improvements in both configuration time and the cost prediction accuracy. The company evaluated this research as an overall quality improvement that standardizes the workflow and remove existing bottlenecks.

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Section: Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 65%

Section: Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Product portfolio mapping used to structure a mature sub‐system with large variation – A case study

Sundet

Syverud

Kokkula

et al. 2021

INCOSE International Symp

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“…(d) Consideration of product architecture is also important. Ulonska and Welo [101] proposed Product Portfolio Map, a visual tool for structuring a product portfolio based on architecture analysis; Yan and Stewart [102] introduced GeMoCURE, a modular product design methodology that can help achieve modular product design, which is still a challenge for SMEs. The implementation in a manufacturing SME has uncovered the needs for a standardized system of interfaces.…”

Section: Process Modeling Tools and Techniquesmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Product Development Process Design for Small and Medium Enterprises: A Systematic Literature Review from the Perspective of Open Innovation

Iqbal

Suzianti

2021

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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New product development (NPD) is essential for large, as well as small and medium, enterprises (SMEs). Despite its importance for the economy, challenges remain in the NPD in SMEs. Product success is related with the NPD process, so it is important for SMEs to be able to design their NPD process. This paper aims to identify SME’s NPD research topics, the characteristics of the NPD process in SMEs, and important aspects to be considered for NPD process design. The literature review is done with the analysis of 99 selected academic articles from Scopus and ScienceDirect. Content analysis, bibliographic analysis, and clustering method (based on Pearson’s correlation coefficient) are used to conduct the identification. Less-formal processes, informal strategic planning, limited resources, need technology support, and lack of capabilities in certain fields are some of the characteristics of SME’s NPD. Collaborative product development, competitive advantage, information and communication technology (ICT), concurrent engineering, quality function deployment, and continuous improvement are important keywords based on previous research in SME’s NPD. Design activities in NPD, collaboration and source of innovation, and process modelling, tools, and techniques appear to be important aspects related with the SME’s NPD process.

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“…Jugend and Da Silva (2014) present that several practices are related to product portfolio management from methodological, organisational and strategic viewpoint. As a detailed example, Ulonska and Welo (2014) highlight explicit and visual knowledge representations for product variant discovery and structuring. Visual knowledge representations relate to design rationale modelling.…”

Section: Product Portfolio Management and Product Variety Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Support for Managing Partly Configurable Modular Systems

Pakkanen

Heikkinen²,

Adlin

et al. 2021

Proc. Des. Soc.

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The paper studies what kind of support could be applied to the management of partly configurable modular systems. The main tasks of product management, product portfolio management and product variety management are defined. In addition, a partly configurable product structure and modular system are defined. Because the limited support in the literature for managing partly configurable modular systems, the article reviews previous product development cases in which authors have been involved on lessons learnt basis, i.e., if the methods and tools used in the cases could provide support for the research objective. As a result, the existing definition of the modular system should be extended by the concepts of non-module and design decision sequence description when dealing with partly configurable modular systems. This is because engineer-to-order should be made possible in cases where it brings clear added value to the customer compared to completely pre-defined solutions that may limit the customer's interest in the offering. Tools to assess the impact of changes to the product offering are required. These should be taken into account in frameworks that are used in method and tool development.

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Product portfolio map: a visual tool for supporting product variant discovery and structuring

Cited by 10 publications

References 41 publications

Product portfolio mapping used to structure a mature sub‐system with large variation – A case study

Product portfolio mapping used to structure a mature sub‐system with large variation – A case study

New Product Development Process Design for Small and Medium Enterprises: A Systematic Literature Review from the Perspective of Open Innovation

Support for Managing Partly Configurable Modular Systems

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