Abstract
The modular design can shrink production and management costs by quick procession of the specific needs of individual end users. This article presents a modular product design approach to product-o...
Highlights
With rapid development of global economy and the improvement of productivity, the focus on market competition has shifted from production and quality to personalized customization
One effective way to such demands is sought through product development based on product supply network
This article proposes a modular product design method based on the supply chain network
Summary
With rapid development of global economy and the improvement of productivity, the focus on market competition has shifted from production and quality to personalized customization. This article proposes a modular product design method based on the supply chain network. The supply chain is the functional network created among different companies producing, handling, and/or distributing a specific product.[12] The design of supply chain refers to the customer as the center and is used in a variety of new methods, new ideas, new thinking to build enterprise services and management system, to better meet customer demand. We present a module partition method based on the fuzzy clustering algorithm which studies the degree of closeness and similarity relations between product components in terms of function and structure. A simplified three-level (parts suppliers, module suppliers, final assembly enterprises) supply chain is employed for the case study on product structure and supply chain design.
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