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Managing Design Processes of Product Families by Modularization and Simulation

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Managing multiple design projects of product family design necessitates exploitation of commonalities among various variant projects to achieve reduced time and cost. It is important to establish a design process architecture that captures the relevant design process information and to model the design process so as to integrate the logic of design process planning. This chapter describes a design process modularization approach to establish the design process architecture and an integrated modeling and simulation method based on Petri nets (PNs). This framework adopts a generic variety structure of representing diverse variant design processes. A modular design project planning architecture is structured by identifying design process modules using a fuzzy clustering approach. Based on the modular design process, a timed colored Petri net model is formulated to integrate the planning logic of design process configuration, while evaluating design project performance through simulation. Application of the proposed framework in a car dashboard product family design demonstrates promising results of design process management based on modularization and PN simulation.

This book chapter is compiled from the authors’ prior publications in ASME Journal of Mechanical Design (DOI: 10.1115/1.3149844 & DOI: 10.1115/1.3125203) (©ASME 2008), reprinted with permission.

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  1. Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, Singapore

    Qianli Xu

  2. Georgia Institute of Technology, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0405, USA

    Roger J. Jiao

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  1. Dept. Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

    Timothy W. Simpson

  2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Jianxin (Roger) Jiao

  3. School of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA

    Zahed Siddique

  4. Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Singapore

    Katja Hölttä-Otto

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Xu, Q., Jiao, R.J. (2014). Managing Design Processes of Product Families by Modularization and Simulation. In: Simpson, T., Jiao, J., Siddique, Z., Hölttä-Otto, K. (eds) Advances in Product Family and Product Platform Design. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7937-6_20

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