A Framework for Development Architecture for Modular Products: Cross-Domain Variety Management Perspective

DS 94: Proceedings of the Design Society: 22nd International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED19)

Year: 2019
Editor: Wartzack, Sandro; Schleich, Benjamin; Gon
Author: Oh, Kwansuk; Lim, Jong Wook; Cho, Seongwon; Ryu, Junyeol; Hong, Yoo S.
Series: ICED
Institution: Seoul National University
Section: Product Architecture and Modularization
DOI number: https://doi.org/10.1017/dsi.2019.299
ISSN: 2220-4342

Abstract

Variety management is a cross-domain issue in product family design. In the real field, the relationships across the domains are so complex for most of the existing product families that they cannot be easily identified without proper reference architecture. This reference architecture should provide the cross-domain mapping mechanisms in an explicit manner and be able to identify the proper units for management. From this perspective of cross-domain framework, this paper introduces development architecture (DA) to describe the relationships between elements in market, design, and production domains and to give insights for the cross-domain variety management in the product development stage. DA has three parts: (1) the arrangement of elements in each domain, (2) the mapping between elements, and (3) the identification of management sets and key interfaces which are the proper units for variety management. The proposed development architecture framework is applied to the case of front chassis family of modules of an automobile.

Keywords: Product architecture, Product families, Complexity, Variety management

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