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Attacking the Critical Parts in Product Development

Marin Platform - Building Flexible Structural Elements for Boats

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The product cycle is changing, where time legs are shorter, high volume- and cash cow-phases fading. Rapid product introduction and customization are keywords, and often associated with modularization. The objective is to create a flexible product design, not requiring changes in the overall product design every time a new variant is introduced. This has been a feasible strategy for manufacturers of small boats in high-cost countries where an incremental development process is well suited for modularization. However, also more radical innovations are needed, not only change modules and product configurations but also have to develop new product platforms. We then have to deal with the critical, resource demanding processes. This conceptual paper describes how boat builders take modularization to a higher lever by attacking the critical parts in product development, i.e. the structural elements of boats.

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  • Innovation
  • modularization
  • product development
  • leisureboat

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    Bjørnar Henriksen & Carl Christian Røstad

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  1. Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 16802, University Park, PA, USA

    Vittal Prabhu

  2. Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci 32, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Marco Taisch

  3. EPFL, STI-IGM-LICP, ME A1 396, Station 9, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Dimitris Kiritsis

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Henriksen, B., Røstad, C.C. (2013). Attacking the Critical Parts in Product Development. In: Prabhu, V., Taisch, M., Kiritsis, D. (eds) Advances in Production Management Systems. Sustainable Production and Service Supply Chains. APMS 2013. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 414. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41266-0_12

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