DYNA JOURNAL ENGINEERING

Key words:

Plataforma de productos, Diseño, Estandarización y Modularización, Product Platform Design, Standardization and modularization, Product Platform Design, Standardization and modularization, Product Platform Design, Standardization and modularization

Article type:

COLABORACIÓN / COLLABORATION

Section:

COLLABORATIONS

ABSTRACT:
Developing a robust, product platform architecture brings an important competitive advantage to a company. The major benefits are reduced design effort and time-to-market for future generations of the product. This paper develops a methodology (DFV) for the development of a product platform, based on two indexes. The first index is the Generational Variety Index (GVI), a measure for the amount of redesign effort required for future designs of the product. The second index is the Coupling Index (CI), a measure of the coupling among the product components. The article presents the case of a bicycle as illustration and application of the methodology.

Keywords: Product Platform Design, Standardization and modularization.