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TYPES OF PARTLY CONFIGURABLE PRODUCTS IN HIGH-VARIETY, LOW-VOLUME CONTEXT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2023

Teuvo Heikkinen  and
Tero Juuti
Teuvo Heikkinen*
Affiliation:
Tampere University
Tero Juuti
Affiliation:
Tampere University
*
Heikkinen, Teuvo, Tampere University, Finland, teuvo.heikkinen@tuni.fi

Abstract

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Research on partly configurable products is emerging. Key concepts of these types of products have been scarcely synthetized, as definitions of partly configurable products in high-variety, low-volume industrial context are limited. These products incorporate modular and integral designs, which calls for an overview on the relations of key concepts defining them. The problem is approached through an exploratory literature review, which allowed an overview of the key concepts over product modularity and partly configurable products. Those were synthetized further define partly configurable products. As a result, four types of partly configurable products are given. This review supports vantage over the key concepts and their relations for reuse with partly configurable products in academia. For practitioners the presented attributes and given examples support in understanding of concepts and their relations with partly configurable products.

Keywords

Partly configurable productDesign managementProduct architectureProduct structuring
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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 3: ICED23 , July 2023 , pp. 3661 - 3670
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