Modular product design based on the supply chain network

The modular design can shrink production and management costs by quick procession of the specific needs of individual end users. This article presents a modular product design approach to product-oriented supply chain network. The proposed approach first builds a relationship matrix through the func...

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Published inAdvances in mechanical engineering Vol. 9; no. 10; p. 168781401773230
Main Authors Rong, Zhijun, Yang, Zhiwei, Li, Ying, Chen, Kuisheng, Dan, Binbin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.10.2017
Sage Publications Ltd
SAGE Publishing
Subjects
Case studies
Cluster analysis
Clustering
Collaboration
Cooperation
End users
Innovations
Lead time
Modular design
Modularity
Product design
Product development
Suppliers
Supply chains
supply chain
Fuzzy clustering
modular product design
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Summary:The modular design can shrink production and management costs by quick procession of the specific needs of individual end users. This article presents a modular product design approach to product-oriented supply chain network. The proposed approach first builds a relationship matrix through the functional and structural interaction between the product components. Second, module suppliers are determined by the product module division via fuzzy clustering analysis of the relationship matrix. Third, for the determined suppliers, the supply chain costs and lead time are obtained, which can indicate the pros and cons of the supply network. Thus, proposed optimal product modules are verified through the supply network. A case on refrigerator parts modular is examined by the proposed method.
ISSN:1687-8132
1687-8140
1687-8140
DOI:10.1177/1687814017732308