Platform-based design and development: Current trends and needs in industry

Timothy W. Simpson; Tucker Marion; Olivier De Weck; Katja Hölttä-Otto; Michael Kokkolaras; Steven B. Shooter

Platform-based design and development: Current trends and needs in industry

Timothy W. Simpson^*
, Tucker Marion
, Olivier De Weck
, Katja Hölttä-Otto
, Michael Kokkolaras
, Steven B. Shooter

^*Corresponding author for this work

Not published at Aalto University

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review

65 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Many companies constantly struggle to find cost-effective solutions to satisfy the diverse demands of their customers. In this paper, we report on two recent industry-focused conferences that emphasized platform design, development, and deployment as a means to increase variety, shorten lead-times, and reduce development and production costs. The first conference, Platform Management for Continued Growth, was held November-December 2004 in Atlanta, Georgia, and the second, 2005 Innovations in Product Development Conference - Product Families and Platforms: From Strategic Innovation to Implementation, was held in November 2005 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The two conferences featured presentations from academia and more than 20 companies who shared their successes and frustrations with platform design and deployment, platform-based product development, and product family planning. Our intent is to provide a summary of the common themes that we observed in these two conferences. Based on this discussion, we extrapolate upon industry's needs in platform design, development, and deployment to stimulate and catalyze future work in this important area of research.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 2006 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information In Engineering Conference, DETC2006
Volume	2006
Publication status	Published - 2006
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference - Philadelphia, United States Duration: 10 Sept 2006 → 13 Sept 2006

Conference

Conference	ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
Abbreviated title	IDETC/CIE
Country/Territory	United States
City	Philadelphia
Period	10/09/2006 → 13/09/2006

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Keywords

Commonality
Modularity
Product family
Product platform
Product variety

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Simpson, TW, Marion, T, De Weck, O, Hölttä-Otto, K, Kokkolaras, M & Shooter, SB 2006, Platform-based design and development: Current trends and needs in industry. in Proceedings of 2006 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information In Engineering Conference, DETC2006. vol. 2006, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Philadelphia, United States, 10/09/2006.

Platform-based design and development: Current trends and needs in industry. / Simpson, Timothy W.; Marion, Tucker; De Weck, Olivier et al.
Proceedings of 2006 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information In Engineering Conference, DETC2006. Vol. 2006 2006.

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