Designing Rotationally Symmetric Products for Multi-variant Mass Production by Using Production-Technical Solution Space

Highly customized products have led to an irreproducible complexity in product development and order processing process. Today’s product design and IT-tools reduce this complexity insufficiently and potentials in administration and manufacturing are not fully lapped. The approach presented in this paper starts the development of a product structure at the manufacturing environment. The aim is to develop a product structure for rotational products that is adapted for manufacturing processes and therefore enabling a cost-effective production. As a result, companies are able to provide their customers with individual product solutions using standardized processes. This enables a technological and production-related flexibility to fulfill growing needs of global markets.

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