Assessment of commonality in products and processes for a product family

Author

Deepak Tickoo

Abstract

"Many companies use commonality indices as surrogate measures to assess the economies of scale in their design and manufacturing operations. However, the computation of commonality indices during the early design stages and identification of common resources consumed during the product realization process is not adequately addressed in the literature. In the present study, four commonality indices have been developed -- two design commonality indices and two resource commonality indices at conceptual and structural stages of product design and product manufacture, respectively. Two weighting factors, namely, cost and demand have also been taken into account while computing these indices.

These indices provide insight to the designers and product roadmap developers about design elements shared by different product variants. The conceptual and structural architecture commonality indices, namely, the Conceptual Architecture Commonality Index (CACJ), and the Structural Architecture Commonality Index (SAC/) are computed based on an attribute ranking scale. Nine attributes have been identified, each at the conceptual and the structural architecture level, respectively. The resource commonality index is computed based on a set of processes. Conceptual processes are considered for the computation of Conceptual Resource Commonality Index (RCI_c), while manufacturing processes are considered for the computation of Structural Resource Commonality Index (RCI_s). The proposed methodology has been explained using an illustrative example of a family of Color Picture Tubes (CPTs)"--Abstract, page iv.

Advisor(s)

Allada, Venkat

Committee Member(s)

Krishnamurthy, K.
Ragsdell, K. M.

Department(s)

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

Degree Name

M.S. in Engineering Management

Sponsor(s)

University of Missouri--Rolla. Intelligent Systems Center

Research Center/Lab(s)

Intelligent Systems Center

Publisher

University of Missouri--Rolla

Publication Date

Summer 2007

Pagination

xii, 103 pages

Note about bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 42-45).

Rights

© 2007 Deepak Tickoo, All rights reserved.

Document Type

Thesis - Restricted Access

File Type

text

Language

English

Subject Headings

New products
Product management -- Decision making

Thesis Number

T 9246

Print OCLC #

378634278

Electronic OCLC #

919438852

Link to Catalog Record

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Recommended Citation

Tickoo, Deepak, "Assessment of commonality in products and processes for a product family" (2007). Masters Theses. 5957.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/masters_theses/5957