Commonality Analysis Using Clustering Methods

Lawrence Dale Thomas
Additional contact information
Lawrence Dale Thomas: NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama

Operations Research, 1991, vol. 39, issue 4, 677-680

Abstract: The application of commonality in a system represents an attempt to reduce costs by reducing the number of unique components. A formal method for conducting commonality analysis has not been established. This paper characterizes commonality analysis as a partitioning problem for which the solution may be approximated by the application of clustering methods. A clustering algorithm is developed and applied to a commonality analysis of Space Station water tanks. The success in applying a clustering method in this problem indicates a significant potential for application of clustering methods to commonality analysis.

Keywords: engineering: systems optimization; statistics; cluster analysis: variance methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/opre.39.4.677 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:inm:oropre:v:39:y:1991:i:4:p:677-680

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Operations Research from INFORMS Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Asher ().