Product Platform and Product Family Design
Methods and Applications
- Author
- Timothy W. Simpson (editor), Zahed Siddique (editor), Jianxin Roger Jiao (editor)
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2006
- Pages
- 548
Summary
Covers platform planning, commonality decisions, optimization, costing and industrial applications. The edited volume brings together methods for developing product families that share platforms while meeting varied customer requirements and maintaining production efficiency.
Its chapters span front-end planning, product-family positioning, commonality assessment and engineering design methods. The breadth makes it useful as a reference for teams seeking to balance product variety with reuse rather than treating each variant as an independent development project.
Our verdict
Recommended as a substantial engineering reference for developing product families around shared platforms. Best used selectively for the planning, commonality and optimization methods relevant to your product family, rather than read as a short introduction.
Who should read it
- —Product-family and platform engineers
- —Engineering leaders managing product variety
- —PLM practitioners aligning product structures with platform strategy
How it relates to your work
- —Inform shared-platform and variant decisions with commonality, cost and performance trade-offs.
- —Connect product-family planning with the structures and reuse policies maintained in PLM.
Keep in mind
- —An edited engineering reference, with varying depth and emphasis across chapters.
- —The hardcover was released in October 2005; Springer lists the eBook publication in March 2006. The library uses the requested 2006 edition year.
- —Publisher access may require purchase or an institutional subscription.