TY - JOUR
T1 - Identification and measurement of product modularity – An implementation case
AU - Shamsuzzoha, Ahm
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2018 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Product modularity offers extended benefits to the manufacturing companies with respect to reduce lead-time, improves assemble ability, promotes product family design and enhances customers’ satisfactions. This product design and development strategy also offers an opportunity to mix and match all the components of a product into a standardised modular product. The objectives of this research are to introduce and measure the concept of product modularity within manufacturing companies. In addition, a mathematical framework is also highlighted within the scope of this research, which can be used to measure the product modularity level within manufacturing companies. To measure and validate such product modularity level, necessary product design data from a case manufacturing company’s product’s is collected and analysed by using design structure matrix (DSM) tool. The necessary product modularity level is measured through clustering the collected data related to the components interdependences within the case company’s product portfolio. This research is concluded with future research directions on product modularity.
AB - Product modularity offers extended benefits to the manufacturing companies with respect to reduce lead-time, improves assemble ability, promotes product family design and enhances customers’ satisfactions. This product design and development strategy also offers an opportunity to mix and match all the components of a product into a standardised modular product. The objectives of this research are to introduce and measure the concept of product modularity within manufacturing companies. In addition, a mathematical framework is also highlighted within the scope of this research, which can be used to measure the product modularity level within manufacturing companies. To measure and validate such product modularity level, necessary product design data from a case manufacturing company’s product’s is collected and analysed by using design structure matrix (DSM) tool. The necessary product modularity level is measured through clustering the collected data related to the components interdependences within the case company’s product portfolio. This research is concluded with future research directions on product modularity.
KW - Components interdependencies
KW - DSM
KW - Design structure matrix
KW - Innovation
KW - Modularity level
KW - Product modularity
KW - Standard components
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U2 - 10.1504/IJIL.2018.091088
DO - 10.1504/IJIL.2018.091088
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85045527852
SN - 1471-8197
VL - 23
SP - 261
EP - 282
JO - International Journal of Innovation and Learning
JF - International Journal of Innovation and Learning
IS - 3
ER -