Methodical Development of Modular Product Families: Developing High Product Diversity in a Manageable Way - Softcover

Krause, Dieter; Gebhardt, Nicolas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3662656825 ISBN 13: 9783662656822

Publisher: Springer, 2024

Synopsis

This book focuses on the development of multi-variant products using modular product structures and thus addresses the reduction of complexity from a product development perspective. These modular product structures allow for a greater variety of demand with a smaller, internal variety of components and processes. As a supplement to the common product development methodology, the necessary basics of modularity and variant diversity as well as the corresponding methods are presented comprehensively. The book thus summarizes the current state of science as well as the research activities of the past ten years at the Institute of Product Development and Design Technology at the TU Hamburg-Harburg.

The target groups

This book is aimed at product developers and decision makers in practice. Science is offered a helpful reference book and interested engineering students can immerse themselves in the development of modular product families with the necessary basics.

This book is a translation of the original German 1^st edition Methodische Entwicklung modularer Produktfamilien by Dieter Krause & Nicolas Gebhardt, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2018. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.

About this title

About the Author

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter Krause studied production technology/mechanical engineering and received his doctorate at the Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. This was followed by leading positions as design manager, technical manager and managing director in mechanical and plant engineering. Since 2005 he has been head of the Institute for Product Development and Design Technology at the TU Hamburg-Harburg. He is a member of the Scientific Society for Product Development (WiGeP).

Dr.-Ing. Nicolas Gebhardt studied product development/mechanical engineering at Hamburg University of Technology and received his doctorate on the use of graphics and visualization in product development at the Institute for product development and Mechanical Engineering Design. As a research assistant, he conducted several research and development projects for modular products and product development processes. Since 2017, he has been working as a complexity manager and product architect in the German industry.

From the Back Cover

This book is a translation of the original German 1^st edition Methodische Entwicklung modularer Produktfamilien by Dieter Krause & Nicolas Gebhardt, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2018. 

From the content

Introduction and motivation - effects of variety - basics and terminology - potentials of modular product families- modular product structure strategies - methods for developing modular product families - effects on product development processes and future trends.

The target groups

This book is aimed at product developers and decision makers in practice. Science is offered a helpful reference book and interested engineering students can immerse themselves in the development of modular product families with the necessary basics.

The Authors

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter Krause studied production technology/mechanical engineering and received his doctorate at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. This was followed by leading positions as head of design department head of technical departments  and CEO in mechanical and plant engineering. Since 2005 he has been head of the Institute of for Product Development and Mechanical Engineering Design (PKT) at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH). He is a member of the international Scientific Society of Design Science and of its advisory board and a member of the German Scientific Society of for Product Development (WiGeP) and speaker of its board since 2022.

Dipl.-Ing. Nicolas Gebhardt studied product development and mechanical engineering at the Hamburg University of Technology . From 2011 up to 2017 he was is a research assistant at the Institute for Product Development and Mechanical Engineering Design at the Hamburg University of Technology in the research group methodical development of modular product families. After that he worked at Wittenstein and since 2021 he is working at Thyssen Krupp Marine Systems in Hamburg.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3662656825
• ISBN 13: 9783662656822
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 282