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Product families must be based on customer/marketing feasibility, operational flexibility, supply chain responsiveness, and design versatility. This chapter discusses the general strategies of applying these criteria to the fulfillment of product families.
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Anderson, D.M. (2014). Building, Supplying, and Designing Product Families. In: Simpson, T., Jiao, J., Siddique, Z., Hölttä-Otto, K. (eds) Advances in Product Family and Product Platform Design. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7937-6_23
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