Timothy W. Simpson is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University

Jianxin (Roger) Jiao is a Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology

Zahed Siddique is a Professor in the School of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma

Katja Hölttä-Otto is a Professor in Design Engineering Product Development at Singapore University of Technology

Presents state-of-the-art methods and tools for product family and product platform design

Adopts an integrated, systems view on product family and product platform design

Details successful applications and case studies from a variety of industries

Combines contributions from leading experts from industry as well as academia

Is accessible to novice practitioners as well as experienced designers and engineers

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Preface.- 1. Recent Advancements in Product Family Design and Platform-based Product Development.- Part I: Platform Planning and Strategy.- 2. Crafting Platform Strategy based on Anticipated Benefits and Costs.- 3. Multidisciplinary Domains Association in Product Family Design.- 4. Modular Function Deployment - Using Module Drivers to Impart Strategies to a Product Architecture.- 5. Emphasizing Reuse of Generic Assets through Integrated Product and Production System Development Platforms.- 6. Quantifying the Relevance of Product Feature Classification in Product Family Design.- 7. Platform Valuation for Product Family Design.- Part II: Platform Architecting and Design- 8. A Pro-Active Scaling Platform Design Method Using Modularity for Product Variations.- 9. Architectural Decomposition - the role of granularity and decomposition viewpoint.- 10. Integrated Development of Modular Product Families - a Methods Toolkit.- 11. Solving the Joint Product Platform Selection and Product Family Design Problem.- 12. One-Step Continuous Product Platform Planning: Methods and Applications.- 13. Defining Modules for Platforms: An Overview of the Architecting Process.- 14. A QFD-based Optimization Method for Scalable Product Platform.- 15. Managing Design Processes of Product Families by Modularization and Simulation.- Part III: Product Family Development and Implementation.- 16. Global Product Family Design: Simultaneous Optimal Design of Module Commonalization and Supply Chain Configuration.- 17. Architecture-Centric Design Approach for Multi-Disciplinary Product Development.- 18. Product Family Commonality Selection using Optimization and Interactive Visualization.- 19. Developing and Assessing Commonality Metrics for Product Families.- 20. Managing Design Processes of Product Families by Modularization and Simulation.- 21. Design Principles for ReusableSoftware Product Platforms.- 22. Considering Human Variability When Implementing Product Platforms.- Part IV: Applications & Case Studies.- 23. Building, Supplying, and Designing Product Families.- 24. Modular Function Deployment Applied to a Cordless Handheld Vacuum.- 25. Optimal Commonality Decisions in Multiple Ship Classes.- 26. A Heuristic Approach to Architectural Design of Software-Intensive Product Platforms.- 27. Customer Needs Based Product Family Sizing Design: The Viper Case Study.- 28. Product Family Design and Recovery for Lifecycle.- 29. Application of the Generational Variety Index: A Retrospective Study of iPhone Evolution.- 30. Designing a Lawn and Landscape Blower Family Using Pro-Active Platform Design Approach.- Epilogue.- Index.