VISUAL REPRESENTATION FOR DEVELOPING MODULAR PRODUCT FAMILIES – LITERATURE REVIEW AND USE IN PRACTICE
DS 77: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2014 13th International Design Conference
Year: 2014
Editor: Marjanovic Dorian, Storga Mario, Pavkovic Neven, Bojcetic Nenad
Author: Gebhardt, N.; Beckmann, G.; Krause, D.
Series: DESIGN
Section: DESIGN METHODS
Page(s): 183-192
Abstract
Modular product families are a splendid strategy to offer variant products while maintaining a low internal variety. The paper highlights the use of visualisations of product structures and influencing factors in the development of modular products. A literature review demonstrates the notion of visualisations as tools in product development. In order to give insights into practice the results of an interview survey with 12 designers from industry are presented (further results of the study are presented on the DESIGN 2014 conference paper no. 295).
Keywords: visualisation, product families, modularity