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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 071401 |
| Journal | Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions Of the ASME |
| Volume | 144 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| Publication status | Published - 24 Mar 2022 |
Abstract
Product developers are faced with the challenge of covering an ever-increasing external variety with as little internal variety as possible. Modular product architectures offer one way of resolving the challenge. They have an impact on all life phases and on economic targets. These effects are represented in the Impact Model of Modular Product Families. A large number of modularization methods can be found in the literature. The modularization methods consist of different activities: decomposition of product, analysis and revision of components, and reintegration to modules. Module drivers play a major role in reintegration, as they determine which components together form a module. It is not yet clear what effects different modularization methods involving different module drivers have on economic targets. For this reason, the module drivers are examined in their role as levers of modularity and integrated into the Impact Model via access points. By documenting the results in a specially developed uniform method step description and the Impact Model, we enable the selection of modularization methods with regard to their economic impact. The introduction is followed by the state of research. In Sec. 3, the research problem and the research approach are presented. In Sec. 4, the generic method step description is applied to seven modularization methods. Based thereon, the modularization methods are compared with each other with regard to their addressed economic objectives. In an explanatory example, the method selection made possible by this is presented. Finally, the results are discussed and an outlook is given.
Keywords
- conceptual design, design theory and methodology, product development, product family design
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Engineering(all)
- Mechanics of Materials
- Engineering(all)
- Mechanical Engineering
- Computer Science(all)
- Computer Science Applications
- Computer Science(all)
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
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In: Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions Of the ASME, Vol. 144, No. 7, 071401, 24.03.2022.
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T1 - How to Use the Levers of Modularity Properly
T2 - Linking Modularization to Economic Targets
AU - Schwede, Lea Nadine
AU - Greve, Erik
AU - Krause, Dieter
AU - Otto, Kevin
AU - Moon, Seung Ki
AU - Albers, Albert
AU - Kirchner, Eckhard
AU - Lachmayer, Roland
AU - Bursac, Nikola
AU - Inkermann, David
AU - Rapp, Simon
AU - Hausmann, Maximilian
AU - Schneider, Jannik
N1 - Funding Information: Thanks to the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft—DFG; Funder ID: 10.13039/50110000 1659) for funding this project within the research grant “WiMo 2— Entwicklung eines Wirkmodells der Eigenschaften modularer Pro-duktstrukturen zur Bewertung methodischer Ansaetze” at the Hamburg University of Technology.
PY - 2022/3/24
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N2 - Product developers are faced with the challenge of covering an ever-increasing external variety with as little internal variety as possible. Modular product architectures offer one way of resolving the challenge. They have an impact on all life phases and on economic targets. These effects are represented in the Impact Model of Modular Product Families. A large number of modularization methods can be found in the literature. The modularization methods consist of different activities: decomposition of product, analysis and revision of components, and reintegration to modules. Module drivers play a major role in reintegration, as they determine which components together form a module. It is not yet clear what effects different modularization methods involving different module drivers have on economic targets. For this reason, the module drivers are examined in their role as levers of modularity and integrated into the Impact Model via access points. By documenting the results in a specially developed uniform method step description and the Impact Model, we enable the selection of modularization methods with regard to their economic impact. The introduction is followed by the state of research. In Sec. 3, the research problem and the research approach are presented. In Sec. 4, the generic method step description is applied to seven modularization methods. Based thereon, the modularization methods are compared with each other with regard to their addressed economic objectives. In an explanatory example, the method selection made possible by this is presented. Finally, the results are discussed and an outlook is given.
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