Masters Theses
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 (RCIc), while manufacturing processes are considered for the computation of Structural Resource Commonality Index (RCIs). 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 productsProduct management -- Decision making
Thesis Number
T 9246
Print OCLC #
378634278
Electronic OCLC #
919438852
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
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