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Building, Supplying, and Designing Product Families

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Product families must be based on customer/marketing feasibility, operational flexibility, supply chain responsiveness, and design versatility. This chapter discusses the general strategies of applying these criteria to the fulfillment of product families.

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  1. Build-to-Order Consulting, Cambria, CA, USA

    David M. Anderson

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  1. Dept. Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

    Timothy W. Simpson

  2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Jianxin (Roger) Jiao

  3. School of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA

    Zahed Siddique

  4. Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Singapore

    Katja Hölttä-Otto

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Anderson, D.M. (2014). Building, Supplying, and Designing Product Families. In: Simpson, T., Jiao, J., Siddique, Z., Hölttä-Otto, K. (eds) Advances in Product Family and Product Platform Design. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7937-6_23

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