In many cases, product families are established on top of a successful pilot product. While this approach provides an option to measure many concrete attributes like performance a...
This paper presents a knowledge-intensive support paradigm for platform-based product family design and development. The fundamental issues underlying the product family design an...
Systems engineering is the process which takes requirements specifications and engineers products and product families which involve hardware, software and possibly mechanical sub...
An original method for service life assessment of building products is proposed. In addition to a rigorous analysis and system modelling, "Evidence Theory" is adapted an...
Abstract. Products within a product family are composed of different component configurations where components have different variable features and a large amount of dependency re...