TY - GEN
T1 - Application of product modularity in industry
T2 - 7th Annual Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, IEOM 2017
AU - Shamsuzzoha, Ahm
AU - Al-Kindi, Mahmood
AU - Al-Hinai, Nasr
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© IEOM Society International.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Product modularity is a design strategy that offers mutual benefits to the manufacturing companies. Its benefits can be varied from satisfying diverse customer needs through offering customized product with reduced lead-time. This research investigates the overall concept of product modularity, its application in industry and related works published in the literature. The main objective was to identify metrics can be used to measure product modularity. Six industrial cases are investigated in this research study with the objective to measure their product modularity levels. In order to measure such modularity level, Design Structure Matrix (DSM) tool and an analytical method are used. Result shows that overall modularity level in the case industries varies significantly based on product architectures, which are related to the number of components, number of modules, and number of interfaces/dependencies.
AB - Product modularity is a design strategy that offers mutual benefits to the manufacturing companies. Its benefits can be varied from satisfying diverse customer needs through offering customized product with reduced lead-time. This research investigates the overall concept of product modularity, its application in industry and related works published in the literature. The main objective was to identify metrics can be used to measure product modularity. Six industrial cases are investigated in this research study with the objective to measure their product modularity levels. In order to measure such modularity level, Design Structure Matrix (DSM) tool and an analytical method are used. Result shows that overall modularity level in the case industries varies significantly based on product architectures, which are related to the number of components, number of modules, and number of interfaces/dependencies.
KW - Design strategy
KW - Design structure matrix (DSM)
KW - Modularity level
KW - Product design and development
KW - Product modularity
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85019004970
SN - 9780985549763
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management
SP - 1936
EP - 1945
BT - 7th Annual Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, IEOM 2017
PB - IEOM Society
Y2 - 11 April 2017 through 13 April 2017
ER -