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Product family and platform design have become important strategies in manufacturing for flexibly meeting with customers' needs, reducing fixed cost, shortening lead time, etc. In such directions, how and when each member of the product family is realized and launched to the market under the given platform must be managed in some way. This paper discusses the impact of resource constraints under time frames on the management of product family deployment. Resource constraints restrict the amount of design activities that can be investigated at each time frame against their requirement for exploring the product family. Under such a viewpoint, a mathematical formulation of product family deployment under resource constraints is developed, and its optimization method is configured. The modality of product family deployment is demonstrated through optimal design of product family deployment of circuit boards for televisions.
