Developing configurable products for a product family
Hämäläinen, Rasmus (2019)
2019
Konetekniikka
Tekniikan ja luonnontieteiden tiedekunta - Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
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Hyväksymispäivämäärä
2019-01-09
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tty-201901031005
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tty-201901031005
Tiivistelmä
Today’s products are more complex and needed in larger numbers. Managing the variety within product assortment and fulfilling varying requirements of customers is an advantage. To be able to achieve this advantage, one approach is to develop products that are configurable. To enable this configurability, the products should have modular architecture, which means that they consist of different modules, whose relations and interfaces between each other are well-defined.
Case company that is introduced in this thesis, is also seeking this advantage compared to their competitors, who are currently ahead of case company’s solutions. Moreover, the case company is aiming at developing configurable products for a product family. By doing so, the aim is to improve sales-delivery process so that there is no need for engineering in sales-delivery process. Product families are pre-engineered and in sales-delivery process products can be configured to meet customer requirements. Earlier other products of case company have been developed successfully with application of Brownfield Process and therefore this project development is also done by applying the same process. Brownfield Process is a method for developing modular product families that enable configuration.
This thesis considers the concepts of modularity and configuration and moreover configurable and modular products. Also, methods for developing a configurable product family for existing products are presented. Furthermore, current and desired situation in case company are analyzed and based on them products are developed through Brownfield Process steps.
The result of this thesis is review of the business impacts of modularization and rationalization of product assortment within case company. Also, areas that need further development are pointed out and description of product family is documented.
Case company that is introduced in this thesis, is also seeking this advantage compared to their competitors, who are currently ahead of case company’s solutions. Moreover, the case company is aiming at developing configurable products for a product family. By doing so, the aim is to improve sales-delivery process so that there is no need for engineering in sales-delivery process. Product families are pre-engineered and in sales-delivery process products can be configured to meet customer requirements. Earlier other products of case company have been developed successfully with application of Brownfield Process and therefore this project development is also done by applying the same process. Brownfield Process is a method for developing modular product families that enable configuration.
This thesis considers the concepts of modularity and configuration and moreover configurable and modular products. Also, methods for developing a configurable product family for existing products are presented. Furthermore, current and desired situation in case company are analyzed and based on them products are developed through Brownfield Process steps.
The result of this thesis is review of the business impacts of modularization and rationalization of product assortment within case company. Also, areas that need further development are pointed out and description of product family is documented.