A proposal of method for module commonization in product family

Abstract

A method for both quality improvement and design efficiency is required to meet diversifying customer requirements and human resource development. Especially in the case of configure-to-order production systems, a design method that can appropriately evaluate the diversity of modules in advance is necessary to suppress customization. Currently, such evaluation is implicit, and technical transferability is also an issue.

In this paper, we propose a method to visualize and analyze the diversity of modules and evaluate them in advance and show its effectiveness when applied to servo motors. The proposed method is expected to standardize and formalize the conventional methods.