Print Email Facebook Twitter An incremental method for configurable product changes Title An incremental method for configurable product changes: Improving the validation process of engineering changes to the C-BOM of high-tech configurable products Author van Wijngaarden, Sophie (TU Delft Technology, Policy and Management) Contributor Verbraeck, A. (mentor) Kwakkel, J.H. (mentor) Huang, Yilin (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Complex Systems Engineering and Management (CoSEM) Date 2018-08-27 Abstract Manufacturing technologically complex and configurable products is challenging. Companies are constantly trying to improve product quality and customer service level while reducing lead-times and total costs in order to improve their competitiveness. Nowadays, companies are forced to offer customized products based on the needs and requirements of every individual customer, in order to stay competitive. However, this results in a highly complicated product with many variants and a complicated manufacturing process. Product configuration management is therefore widely used in order to maintain the low production costs, while having a large number of product variants. Engineering change management is the core activity of product configuration management. Engineering changes can have an extremely large impact on the product’s performance, functional elements and physical elements (i.e. product knowledge base) and therefore, must be considered as part of configuration management. This research is concerned with the design of an approach for validating engineering changes to configurable bills-of-materials and aims at the context of high-tech configurable products. This validation approach supports product configuration managers to structure their activities for the implementation of engineering changes and checks whether a changed conditional bill-of-materials is defect-free and therefore, results in valid product configurations. Subject Configurable productC-BOMEngineering changeProduct configuration To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:381fbca8-68b6-4302-bd96-aa85713c0389 Embargo date 2018-08-13 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2018 Sophie van Wijngaarden Files PDF MScThesis_REPOSITORY_Repo ... 246616.pdf 6.86 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:381fbca8-68b6-4302-bd96-aa85713c0389/datastream/OBJ/view