Product Family Formation and Selection for Reconfigurability Using ANP

This chapter develops a conceptual framework for product family formation towards reconfigurability through a product-process reconfiguration link . Various decisive factors affecting product family formation and selection such as manufacturing requirements, market requirements, manufacturing cost and time and cost of process reconfiguration are investigated. An analytical network process (ANP) model is proposed to incorporate all the outlined decisive factors and major criteria and elements influencing the product family formation and selection. The proposed ANP model is utilised for selecting the most appropriate product family with synthesis judgements and sensitivity analysis through a case study in a manufacturing company.

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