PLATFORM CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE INTEGRATED PKT-APPROACH

DS 80-7 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 15) Vol 7: Product Modularisation, Product Architecture, systems Engineering,Product Service Systems, Milan, Italy, 27-30.07.15

Year: 2015
Editor: Christian Weber, Stephan Husung, Gaetano Cascini, Marco CantaMESsa, Dorian Marjanovic, Frederico Rotini
Author: Kruse, Moritz; Ripperda, Sebastian; Krause, Dieter
Series: ICED
Institution: Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Section: Product Modularisation, Product Architecture, Systems Engineering, Product Service Systems
Page(s): 073-082
ISBN: 978-1-904670-70-4
ISSN: 2220-4334

Abstract

The development of modular product structures and platforms for product families is used more and more in companies to cope with the increasing complexity. Both approaches, modules and platforms, contain the definition of a certain degree of reusable elements which leads to a reduction of the internal variety, e.g. a reduced number of parts. The integrated PKT-approach is a method toolkit including different combinable method units supporting the development of modular product structures with reduced internal variety. The aim of this paper is to include the specific development of product platform concepts and the evaluation of different concepts regarding complexity costs into the integrated PKT-approach on an exemplary product family.

Keywords: Integrated Product Development, Product Families, Product Structuring, Platform Concepts, Complexity Costs

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