Product family design

Subject: Product family design

Credits: 10 ECTS

Target Audience:  1. year students, MSc Product and system design

Prerequisites: BSc

Objectives:

Introduction to methods product family design methods. The goal is to design the assortment instead of single products and then embrace commonality compatibility, standardization, modularization among different products and production lines. The goal is both to have high degree of customization and standardisation. The product assortment and the value chain will be developed simultaneously.

Topics:

• Modularisation
• Platform
• Configuration
• Product architecture
• Scaling
• Product family modelling
• Introduction to system modelling
• Automatic design
• System simulation

Course readings:

1. The design factory, Hans Petter Hildre, Kompendium ved Høgskolen i Ålesund 2008
2. The power of product platforms, Marc H. Meyer, Alvin P. Lehnerd, The free press, 1997
3. Improving business by Conceptual Modeling, Niels Henrik Mortensen,  Invensys CRM 2000
4. Introduction to Systems Engineering – Andrew P. Sage

Instruction: Lectures and individual- and group-exercises (mandatory)

Mandatory Assignments:

Mandatory exercises must be approved before admission to the examination

Evaluation:

50% project work and 50% 3 ours written exam.

Grades: A – F where the grade F represents failure.