Study on New Product Development Based on Reuse

Inspired by the idea and model of software reuse, a process model for new product development based on reuse was established and its key technologies for realizing this model, i.e. structural representation for existing design, design retrieval and design solution adaptation, were discussed. The technology of design for reuse was studied. As the new product development is transforming from stage integration for a single project to multi project integraton, this paper presented a new methodology for the product development based on the reuse of product platform and core components in terms of the concept of software platform. The different reuse strategies that possess significance of guideline for new product development of different industries were proposed also.