... to help create new or redesigned product families, thus avoiding potential pitfalls of a poor product platform design strategy. product family benchmarking commonality and variety benchmark testing cost reduction manufactured products mass production product design product development...

... for the methodology illustration. 10 03 2005 12 03 2006 agile manufacturing product customisation mass production redesign design customization decomposition design dependency matrix large-scale computational design agile manufacturing Carrying out the procedure of stage 3...

...: a lightweight polycarbonate plastic version suitable for inexpensive mass production, and an aluminum and stainless steel linkage that offers greater reliability and higher stiffness. Both linkages were designed to be statically balanced over their full workspace. Contributed by the Mechanisms and Robotics...