8 Torquecore Publications International Perspectives on Modular Design Research: Connecting Different Approaches to Assist in the Development of Modular Product Family Concepts

Abstract

It has been shown that modular product platforms enable businesses to provide a range of goods while offering 
significant time and cost benefits. As a consequence, the design research community has created a wide range of 
product platform techniques during the last ten years. However, since the approaches have mostly been created 
independently of one another, it is challenging to compare and integrate appropriate methodologies. We build a 
general set of thirteen platform design processes for creating a platform idea after analyzing the literature on 
modularity and product platforms. After that, we look at a number of product platform idea development procedures 
that are used by various businesses, and we get a general flow of the stages from this. The many modular and platform 
design techniques created by the community may then be chained together by associating them with the sequence