Our publications
Our skilled consultants at CPC have contributed to a vast collection of research. Take a look at our books and articles.
Books
Variation Management in Project-Based Design
This study focuses on the limited reuse of R&D resources in Engineer-to-Order (ETO) companies operating with generally defined product-principles and one-of-a-kind designs. The study investigates the gain of designing customer-specific products from defined and aligned process and product platforms, governed by strict architectures and systems definitions.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark
Top-Down Financially Driven Modularization
This thesis presents methods to support industrial companies in applying modularization, on a portfolio level, as a strategy for product and production development. This includes a focus on how argumentation for modularization can be supported by assessing financial effects and a focus on how critical modularization decisions can be captured and communicated to support the realization of these effects.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark
Application of Product Configuration Systems
Engineering companies increasingly face the challenge of delivering highly customized products where time, cost, and quality are critical factors. To provide customized products efficiently, a product configuration system (PCS) is commonly implemented. This study focuses on engineering companies and aims to strengthen the research field of PCS applications and increase the successfulness of engineering companies in applying the PCS in terms of both successful implementation and benefits realization to greater extent.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark
PLM support to architecture based development
Designers doing product architecture based development look to convert desired behavior to solutions for a portfolio of products, and through modularization pursue commonality among different variants without increasing the internal task proportional to handling variety. This study describes research into the phenomena of developing products based on architectures and how to represent architectures in computer systems.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark
Architecture Descriptions
This research contributes to the vocabulary and understanding of the architecture phenomenon. A conceptual framework is provided which allows for conceptualization of the architecture phenomenon, and how it applies within production system design. To aid the companies in the operational design and handling of production system architecture, research is conducted into the description of production system architecture, including what an architecture description contains in general and what it should describe for production systems specifically.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark
On the identification of architectures for product programs
The topic of this study is the identification of architectures for product programs with the purpose of improving the competitiveness of industrial companies while reducing complexity. The presented frameworks and approaches have been tested in a number of case studies across a variety of industries demonstrating significant effects in terms of time-to-market reduction, improvement of R&D efficiency, and complexity cost reduction.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark
Radikal forenkling via Design
This publication describes the results from the proof-of-concept study. The main contribution is a systematic approach to radical simplification via design (“Radikal forenkling via Design”) targeted small and mid-sized Danish companies.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark
Developing product families based on architectures
Companies are introducing more and more product variants to fulfill the market demands. These new variants add complexity to many of the processes and systems in the companies. Reuse of standard designs (i.e. design entities) and re-use of the way new products are developed can simplify the processes and systems. Case studies show that reuse can lead to reduction of cost and time-to-market of new products.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark
Articles
Modular maintenance instructions architecture (MMIA)
Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering
Quantifying the impact of early-stage maintenance clustering
Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering
Identifying profitable reference architectures in an engineer-to-order context
International Journal of Production Research
Systematic maintenance action modularization for improved initiative prioritization
NordDesign Conference
Modularizing Maintenance for Improved Production Impact Clarification
International Design Conference
Data-Driven Systematic Evaluation of Preventive Maintenance Performance
Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS)
Identifying Modularity Practices Across Mechanics, Electronics and Software
NordDesign Conference
Structuring and Contextualizing Historical Data for Decision Making in Early Development
International Design Conference
Initiatives towards a concurrent maintenance process
NordDesign Conference
Why Engineer-To-Order Portfolio Rationalization Stalls: Challenges In Standardization, Modularization, Platform Design And Mass Customization
International Design Conference
Engineer-To-Order Plant Design: Assessing System Complexity and Hour Use Based on Directed Network Graphs
IEEE International Conference
ETO Standardization Strategies: Verifying Implementation and Effect
NordDesign Conference
Guidelines for Structuring Object-Oriented Product Configuration Models in Standard Configuration Software
Journal of Universal Computer Science
The reduction of product and process complexity based on the quantification of product complexity costs
International Journal of Production Research
Achieving long-term modularization benefits: A small- and medium-sized enterprise study
Journal of Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications
The impact of applying product-modelling techniques in configurator projects
International Journal of Production Research
Time Estimation for Product Configuration Systems Projects
IEEE International Conference
Scoping a PIM System: A Supporting Framework
IEEE International Conference
Using business critical design rules to frame new architecture introduction in multi-architecture portfolios
International Journal of Production Research
Assessing Increased Product Line Commonality’s Effect on Assembly
International Design Conference
How to scope configuration projects and manage the knowledge they require
Journal of Knowledge Management
Measuring the complexity of product configuration systems
International Workshop on Configuration
Return on investment from the use of product configuration systems – A case study
Computers in Industry
The main challenges for manufacturing companies in implementing and utilizing configurators
Computers in Industry
Good product line architecture design principles
International Conference on Engineering Design
Automatic Identification of Similarities Across Products to Improve the Configuration Process in ETO Companies
International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management
Complexity of Configurators Relative to Integrations and Field of Application
International Workshop on Configuration
How to Identify Possible Applications of Product Configuration Systems in Engineer-to-Order Companies
International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management
Impact of product configuration systems on product profitability and costing accuracy
Computers in Industry
Improving product configurability in ETO companies
International Conference on Engineering Design
The documentation of product configuration systems: A framework and an IT solution
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Usage Frequency of Product Configuration Systems Relative to Integrations and Fields of Application
International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
Towards a framework for modular service design synthesis
Research in Engineering Design
Analysis of visual representation techniques for product configuration systems in industrial companies
International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
Assessing the cost saving potential of shared product architectures
Journal of Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications
Business cases for product configuration systems
International conference on mass customization and personalization
Development and implementation strategy for the of product configuration systems in engineer-to-order companies
International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
Impact of the utilization of a product configuration system on product’s life cycle complexity
World conference on Production and operations Management
Improved Performance and Quality of Configurators by Receiving Real-Time Information from Suppliers
Configuration Workshop
Industrial Application of Configurators: From Motivations to Realized Benefits
International Conference on Industrial Engineering
Industrial experience from using the cpm-procedure for developing, implementing and maintaining product configuration systems
International Conference on Industrial Engineering
Product configuration system and its impact on product’s life cycle complexity
IEEE International Conference
Quantification of Benefits and Cost from Applying a Product Configuration System
International conference on mass customization and personalization
Reconfiguring Variety, Profitability, and Postponement for Product Customization with Global Supply Chains
World Conference on Mass Customization & Personalization
Utilizing product configuration systems for supporting the critical parts of the engineering processes
International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
Alignment of Configuration and Documentation for Highly Engineered Complex Product Configuration Systems: a Demonstration from a Case Study
IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence Conference
An agile documentation system for highly engineered, complex product configuration systems
International Annual EurOMA Conference
Goal-Oriented Data Collection Framework in Configuration Projects
World Conference on Mass Customization, Personalization and Co-Creation
How to Analyze and Quantify Similarities between Configured Engineer-To-Order Products by Comparing the Highlighted Features Utilizing the Configuration System Abilities
International Configuration Workshop
Identification of profitable areas to apply product configuration systems in Engineering-To-Order companies
World Conference on Mass Customization, Personalization and Co-Creation
Impact on cost accuracy and profitability from implementing product configuration system – A case-study
International Configuration Workshop
PLM system support for modular product development
Computers in Industry
Domain Theory, its models and concept
Chapter in “An Anthology of Theories and Models of Design”
Springer Verlag, Germany
Managing complexity of product mix and production flow in configure-to-order production systems
International Annual EurOMA Conference
Mapping requirements to a product architecture supported by a PLM system
International Design Conference
Proactive identification of scalable program architectures: How to achieve a quantum-leap in time-to-market
International Journal of Industrial Engineering
Interface diagram: Design tool for supporting the development of modularity in complex product systems
Journal of Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications
PLM support for development of modular product families
International Conference on Engineering Design
Calculation of Complexity Costs: An Approach for Rationalizing a Product Program
NordDesign Conference
Modelling and using product architectures in mechatronic product development
NordDesign Conference
On the Market Aspect of Product Program Design: Towards a Definition of an Architecture of the Market
International Design Conference
Towards a Classification of Architecture Initiatives: Outlining the External Factors
NordDesign Conference
Visual product architecture modelling for structuring data in a PLM system
International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management
Improving decision making in the early phases of configuration projects
International Journal of Industrial Engineering
Proactive modeling of product and production architectures
International Conference on Engineering Design
Examining the Possibilities of Identifying and Modeling Correlations between Product Families and Business Processes
NordDesign Conference
Making Product Customization Profitable
International Journal of Industrial Engineering
Handling the early phases of configuration projects
World Conference on Mass Customization & Personalization
Identification of platform levels
International Conference on Engineering Design
Multi Product Development: New models and concepts
Symposium DFX
Modelling Relations In Product Families
NordDesign Conference
Understanding the Phenomenon of Modularization
International Design Conference
Managing Modularization
EISAM International Product Development Management Conference
On the Way Towards Definition of Product Architecture
Symposium DFX
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