Large Scale Product Modularity : Verifying Module Heuristics

ISBN-13: 9783639174236 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 56 str.

Rachel Day

Opis

Decreasing time and costs is a major objective inmany businesses today. Including modularity in theearly design phases can effectively decrease timespent on and costs associated with a project. Thetask of identifying modules within a product early inthe design process (when decisions are lessexpensive) is made less daunting by using thetechniques of functional modeling and moduleheuristics. This work discusses the results of theefforts to verify the module heuristics on largeproducts. Observations on needed modifications to thefunctional modeling technique and original moduleheuristics are reported along with an investigationof using potential risk statements to formulatemodules. It is the finding of this work that theoriginal module heuristics do still apply to largeproducts. These module heuristics can be combinedwith themselves or other heuristics to create super modules. This increases the heuristics efficiencyand usefulness in regards to large products.

O autorze

BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Missouri
University of Science and Technology.