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Cooperative Decision-Making in Modular Product Family Design

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Authors:
  1. Marc Windheim

    1. Institut für Produktentwicklung und Konstruktionstechnik (PKT), Technische Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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Part of the book series: Produktentwicklung und Konstruktionstechnik (PK, volume 17)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. Introduction

    • Marc Windheim
    Pages 1-4

  3. Challenges of Modular Product Structure Decision-Making: A Descriptive Study

    • Marc Windheim
    Pages 5-32

  4. State of the Art in Product Family Design and Evaluation

    • Marc Windheim
    Pages 33-78

  5. Decision-Making in Modular Product Family Design

    • Marc Windheim
    Pages 79-94

  6. A Method to Support Cooperative Decision-Making in Product Modularization

    • Marc Windheim
    Pages 95-133

  7. Validation of the Method

    • Marc Windheim
    Pages 135-153

  8. Conclusion

    • Marc Windheim
    Pages 155-157

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 159-209
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About this book

The development of modular product families holds enormous economic potential for companies, as there are always great opportunities but also risks associated with all life phases of a product. However, these fundamental and far-reaching effects inevitably lead to conflicting objectives when defining modular product structures, which makes decision-making in product development particularly complex.
Considering relevant theories from decision theory and product family design, this book presents an innovative method to support decision makers in the development of modular product families. The central element of the method is a novel Modularity Decision Dashboard (MDD), which interactively visualizes all decision-relevant data. The findings presented here confirm that applying the method to real-world decision-making problems leads to a more balanced ratio between internal and external variety, and thus significantly contributes to the efficient economic benefit of modularization.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Produktentwicklung und Konstruktionstechnik (PKT), Technische Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Marc Windheim

About the author

Marc Windheim studied Mechanical Engineering and Management at the Technical University of Munich and Stanford University. During his studies he chiefly focused on Systematic Product Development and Business Management. From 2014 to 2019, he worked for Hilti as a project manager, where he oversaw technology and platform projects for electric drives. At the same time, he was writing his dissertation on decision-making in the development of modular product families at the Institute of Product Development and Mechanical Engineering Design (PKT), Hamburg University of Technology. Since 2019, Marc has been working for Siemens Management Consulting as a Senior Consultant in the areas of Research & Development and Product Lifecycle Management.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cooperative Decision-Making in Modular Product Family Design

  • Authors: Marc Windheim

  • Series Title: Produktentwicklung und Konstruktionstechnik

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-60715-2

  • Publisher: Springer Vieweg Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-60714-5Published: 09 December 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-60717-6Published: 09 December 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-60715-2Published: 21 November 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2629-2157

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-7485

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 209

  • Number of Illustrations: 45 b/w illustrations, 57 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Mechanical Engineering, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing

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