| Meyer, M. H. and Utterback, J. M. (1993). The product family and the dynamics of core capability. Sloan Management Review, 34,29--47. |
....customers and products often results in a failure to embrace commonality, compatibility, standardization, or modularization among different products or product lines. The end result is a proliferation of product variety, increasing costs and reducing profit margins. Meyer and Utterback [13] argue for a broader approach to managing new products. According to them, concentrating the design efforts at the level of the product family, and on the development and sharing of key components and assets within a family, is of vital importance. This approach is in keeping with the evolving ....
....the design efforts at the level of the product family, and on the development and sharing of key components and assets within a family, is of vital importance. This approach is in keeping with the evolving paradigm of mass customization (see, e.g. Pine [17] Kotha [8] Meyer and Utterback [13] give the following definitions of Product Platform and Product Family.Aproduct platform encompasses the design and components shared by a set of products. An effective platform is the core of a successful product family, serving as the foundation for a series of closely related products. Products ....
Meyer, M. H. and Utterback, J. M. (1993). The product family and the dynamics of core capability. Sloan Management Review, 34,29--47.
....W t Weights for the different objectives in the compromise DSP 1. INTRODUCTION In this age of a buyer s market in which manufacturing firms must satisfy individual customer requirements, many of the current management strategies address developing single products as rapidly as possible. Meyer and Utterback (1993) argue for a broader approach to managing new products. According to them, concentrating the design efforts at the level of the product family, and on the development and sharing of key components and assets within a family, is of vital importance. This approach is in keeping with the evolving ....
....According to them, concentrating the design efforts at the level of the product family, and on the development and sharing of key components and assets within a family, is of vital importance. This approach is in keeping with the evolving paradigm of mass customization (Pine, 1993; Kotha, 1995) Meyer and Utterback (1993) give the following definitions of Product Platform and Product Family. A product platform encompasses the design and components Copyright 2000 by ASME 2 shared by a set of products. An effective platform is the core of a successful product family, and serves as the foundation for a series of ....
Meyer, M. H. and Utterback, J. M., 1993, "The Product Family and the Dynamics of Core Capability." Sloan Management Review, Vol. 34, pp. 29-47.
.... research Customization in contrast with standardization should begin at downstream activities, close to the marketplace, and may then spread upstream, towards fundamental design [9] However, the renewal and succession of product families should be built on the core capabilities of the rm [16]. The interactions of modularity in products, processes, information structures and the organizations themselves should be discussed in terms of nearly decomposable systems while a imodular creation environmentj emerges [19] Performance analysis has shown that companies that invested parallel in ....
M. H. Meyer and J. M. Utterback. The product family and the dynamics of core capability. Sloan Management Rev., pages 2947, Spring 1993.
....individual products [24] and do not consider multiple products in a company s product line simultaneously. In this paper, we discuss how designing the assembly sequence of a product in an 2 The term product family has also been used by other researchers to refer to a set of related products, see [21,26]. 2 integrated manner, by considering the products in a family together, can help a company benefit from the similarities among products, and reduce the safety stock component of the cost of offering product variety. We begin in Section 1.2 with a simple illustration of how the product ....
Meyer, M. H. and Utterback, J.H. (1993) The Product Family and the Dynamics of Core Capability. Sloan Management Review, Spring 1993, 29-47.
....deployment, and life cycle maintenance of software systems. One approach to reducing cost is to amortize the investment across more than one system. Kolter [1] defines a product line from a marketing view point as a group of similar products within a market segment (or mission domain) Meyers [2] defines a product family as a set of products that share a common design and standards (or assets) A product line built from product family assets maximizes reuse yielding economies of production. Our references to product lines through the remainder of this report subscribes to this combined ....
Meyers, M and Utterback, J. "The Product Family and the Dynamics of Core capability." Sloan Management Review, Spring 1993.
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