TY - JOUR
T1 - Modular product architecture to manage product development complexity
AU - Shamsuzzoha, Ahm
AU - Helo, Petri
AU - Piya, Sujan
AU - Alkahtani, Mohammed
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was financially supported by Beijing Postdoctoral Research Foundation and Beijing Agriculture Innovation Consortium (BAIC05-2018).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Shorter product life cycles, together with heterogeneous market demands, are forcing manufacturing companies to eliminate or reduce complexities in product development and supply chain. These complexities arise due to high level of interdependencies between component interfaces and supply chain participants. To address such complexities, companies need to focus on their product architecture and supply chain design. In this research, the impact of product architecture on developing modular products is highlighted. This modular principle is elaborated with the objective to reduce product development complexities. A case example is presented to define the importance of product architecture with the help of a design structure matrix (DSM) tool to reduce product development complexity. In addition, various drivers responsible for supply chain complexities are identified and categorised, and the relationship between product architecture and supply chain complexities are defined within the scope of this research.
AB - Shorter product life cycles, together with heterogeneous market demands, are forcing manufacturing companies to eliminate or reduce complexities in product development and supply chain. These complexities arise due to high level of interdependencies between component interfaces and supply chain participants. To address such complexities, companies need to focus on their product architecture and supply chain design. In this research, the impact of product architecture on developing modular products is highlighted. This modular principle is elaborated with the objective to reduce product development complexities. A case example is presented to define the importance of product architecture with the help of a design structure matrix (DSM) tool to reduce product development complexity. In addition, various drivers responsible for supply chain complexities are identified and categorised, and the relationship between product architecture and supply chain complexities are defined within the scope of this research.
KW - Complexity
KW - Component interfaces
KW - DSM
KW - Design structure matrix
KW - Modularity
KW - Product architecture
KW - Supply chain
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U2 - 10.1504/IJISE.2020.110243
DO - 10.1504/IJISE.2020.110243
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85093122232
SN - 1748-5037
VL - 36
SP - 225
EP - 247
JO - International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering
JF - International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering
IS - 2
ER -