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Modular structure based products have been chosen by industries to provide sufficient variety of their products to the market. In this work, a multi-objective product family design that aims to develop a module family for a modular product is discussed. Enterprise considerations such as market share and cost-savings benefits are integrated with the product family design. A representation scheme is introduced to enable us to integrate the qualitative market segmentation grid (MSG) with the scalability evaluation which plays a significant role in determining the appropriate configuration of the module product as well as the final product in different market niches. The combinatorial problem with a large number of module configurations is solved through the implementation of genetic algorithm of NSGA-II. The design of a family of application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) for a modular structure based electronic control unit (ECU) is used to demonstrate the proposed approach.
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Adhitama, Y., Rosenstiel, W. (2015). Module Family Design for Modular Product. In: Filev, D., et al. Intelligent Systems'2014. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 323. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11310-4_40
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