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Opportunity Cost of Modularity: Challenges and Requirements for Balancing the Dilemma of Product Platforms
Windheim, Marc; Krause, Dieter
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Year:
2016
Editor:
Dieter Krause, Kristin Paetzold, Sandro Wartzack
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Series:
DfX
Institution:
Hamburg University of Technology (1), Hilti Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (2)
Section:
Modularisierung
Page(s):
065-076
ISBN:
978-3-946094-09-8
Abstract:
Modular product structure, respectively, platform definition is challenging for decision makers such as project managers or managers which are responsible for a product portfolio. Decisions with influence on modularity of the product family or the product portfolio have effects on internal and external variety and thus induce desired and non-desired effects in firms. This paper describes the problem of balancing effects induced by modularity and introduces modularity-induced opportunity cost as a perspective to the problem.
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