...Guangyu Zou; Zhongkai Li; Chao He The development of a product platform is an effective strategy to respond to dynamic market demands, decrease lead time, and delay product differentiation. However, the traditional product platform configuration method cannot satisfy the sustainability requirements...

...Sarah Case; Jeremy J. Michalek; Kate S. Whitefoot Global product platforms can reduce production costs through economies of scale and learning but may decrease revenues by restricting the ability to customize for each market. We model the global platforming problem as a Nash equilibrium among...

... November 10, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Gary Wang. 02 09 2016 11 09 2017 manufacturing systems product platform product family system platform synthesis co-platforming In order to succeed in a market characterized by high variation in product functions and features...

... segment grid, (2) test the feasibility of using each optimal component as a platform for the other artifacts, (3) formulate an optimization problem around the feasibility statistics whose solution is a product platform portfolio, and (4) solve the optimization problem for the platform portfolio that can...