Abstract
Manufacturing companies increasingly develop product families to offer a large variety of products with limited development and manufacturing costs. This paper asserts that the development of a product family requires product architectures in three domains, defining the required function, technological realisation and the physical realisation. A product architecture separates the stable and the variable aspects of the design. The stable aspects are then integrated to improve the cost-performance ratio, and the variable aspects are developed in a modular way to improve the cost-variety trade-off. The paper supports its arguments through an example.
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