Abstract
Product variety is a growing trend of offering highly configurable products, but increases complexity costs throughout the entire product lifecycle. Modularization makes managing variety-induced complexity and ensuring profitable production possible. Unfortunately, the interfaces between modules represent joining domains and lack modularization and commonalization solutions. Meanwhile, joining element design finds increasingly more support from automation resulting in optimized solutions for individual product variants. Besides, continuous product development implies sequentially designed product variants that cause ambiguous and unnecessary design iterations for joining element design. This paper presents a five-step methodology to modularize joining elements in early product development, while balancing variety-induced complexity and production costs. It reduces complexity by commonalizing joining elements over product variants. The methodology unifies joining technologies, clusters joining locations and proposes an approach to increase modularity by balanced addition of joining elements.
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