Technical Product Modelling

Cipriano Forza and Fabrizio Salvador

Chapter 6 in Product Information Management for Mass Customization, 2006, pp 86-110 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The description, from the technical point of view, of each product variant is a distinctive function of configuration systems. The performance of this key function requires, on the part of the company, the elaboration of a large amount of technical information. Consequently, the knowledge required to process such technical information has to be captured within appropriate logical structures. The present chapter: summarizes the main difficulties associated with the organization of technical information, in the case of configurable products; explains the ‘traditional’ approaches used to describe product variants from the technical point of view, illustrating their limitations; discusses the concept of a generic bill of materials, i.e. the logical structure that generally implements the technical model; supplies guidelines for designing generic bills of materials.

Keywords: Technical Model; Product Variant; Generic Element; Product Family; Mass Customization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230800922_6

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