Research on the Framework for Product Design Reuse

Organizations are facing ever increasing pressure to develop new products to meet the requirements of fast changing market. Sustainable competitive edge requires enterprises to make full use of their existing asserts. Product design reuse (PDR) supports this process. This paper studied some key issues of PDR. Firstly, the concept of PDR and the implications behind it was defined and discussed, and PDR′s process framework and its two main approaches were presented; Secondly, the attributes on assets and levels about PDR were analyzed, and multiple view conceptual model for assets and PDR′s level was proposed respectively; Finally, the difference between reuse and innovation, and the relationship between PDR and software reuse were discussed.