...Jesús F. Lampón; Vincent Frigant; Pablo Cabanelas Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the key factors behind the adoption of new automobile modular platforms from the perspectives of product design, manufacturing network and production systems. Design/methodology/approach...

... more efficient processing of products, capitalizing on commonalities and by supporting cross-functional and cross-boundary coordination through simplifying product designs. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the latter proposition, and especially the mediating role of internal, supplier...

... of this paper is to present an interactive system to enable product design for disassembly and to offer robust and quick design solutions based on designers’ input. The system utilizes an interactive questionnaire to communicate with the designer. The questionnaire is in the form of binary questions (Yes...

... is to provide insight into the requirements of a flexible assembly system for product design from the assembly system’s standpoint. Design/methodology/approach To fulfil the purpose of the paper, a literature review and a case study were performed. The case study was conducted with an interactive research...

... with respect to performance. Product design Integral Modular Manufacturing network Multiple-case study research In order to stay competitive, manufacturing firms need to design, manufacture and distribute products to customers, while taking into consideration the requirements of the global...

...@uh.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Product design Mass customization Agile manufacturing Manufacturing performance Manufacturing flexibility Optimization techniques The global competition entails the concepts of introducing high‐variety products with the minimum time...

..., communication equipment, computers to analyse data, etc.) and service elements (e.g. providing maintenance instructions to customers). Whilst existing product design approaches may help organisations design the product elements and service design approaches help design the service elements, the tight coupling...

...A.H.M. Shamsuzzoha; Petri T. Helo Purpose The purpose of this paper is to help organizational managers to keep track of the information management needed not only for product design and development but also to track between different organizational levels. Design/methodology/approach...

.... Angelo Corallo can be contacted at: angelo.corallo@ebms.unile.it © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Product development Product design Automation Knowledge engineering Aircraft engines New product development (NPD) is a highly knowledge‐intensive process. While developing new...

... The novelty of this paper is aimed for designers to study how they can adapt their future products used in PSS in a more beneficial way than in traditional product design. The paper shows ideas and general guidelines to follow which have been scarcely published. Remanufacturing is a process of returning...

...A.K.W. Lau; R.C.M. Yam Purpose Modular product design is a practice manufacturers frequently adopt to develop new products. Some literature has reported the importance of the modular product design and its effect on supply chain management. However, until now, very few empirical researches have...

...‐based industrial applications. A framework of an industrial‐oriented Web‐centred system is proposed based on the demand found from the survey. Some examples are provided to demonstrate applications of the proposed framework. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Design Manufacturing Product design...

... not only improving the efficiency levels of the operations at manufacturing and assembly stages, but also strategically targeting suppliers’ involvement in different stages. The standard procedure used to be linearly linking different functions, thus product design specification would be developed in‐house...

...Wen‐Chuan Chiang; Arunkumar Pennathur; Anil Mital Examines the product design and manufacturing literature to understand why consumer products of daily use often fail to provide the intended function to users’ satisfaction. The review shows that the bulk of published literature addressing...

... by recognizing and adopting functional requirement patterns from previous product designs so as to address a broad spectrum of domain‐specific customer requirements and organize requirement information for product specifications. The database system improves the product definition process during design...

... design has been shown to determine the overwhelming proportion of the cost of production of a product design (Charney, 1991). Therefore, the consideration of production aspects during conceptual design is most important in improving the efficiency of manufacture of designs. The implications of companies...

...Hubert K. Rampersad During recent years numerous design for assembly methods have been developed to optimize product design for robotic assembly and hence reduce assembly costs. Various bottlenecks in product design are, however, still encountered with the widespread application of robotic assembly...

... as early as possible in the product design process to try to reduce costs, while the scope for change is large but the committed costs small. This becomes increasingly important as the breadth of concurrent engineering extends to embrace all the downstream functions, such as the environmental impact...

...Paul S. Wu; Tam Hon Yuen; Zhao Fuliang Examines the research of integrated product design. Several design strategies and methodologies have been proposed, yet none of them is particularly suitable for small‐to medium‐sized enterprises. Develops strategies of integrated product design for small...

... perspectives. The use of computer‐aided design (CAD) hardware and software to assist in the receipt, verification, storage, manipulation, analysis and reproduction of design information and new product designs and ideas. The idealistic view of CIM is that, once implemented, it becomes of strategic...