TY - GEN
T1 - Individualized product design by evolutionary algorithms
AU - Maurer, Maik
AU - Lindemann, Udo
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - The steady trend towards product customization requires new strategies in product design. A promising approach aims at the creation of predesigned product structures optimized for later component adaptations. Thus, if customer demands turn up, change impacts are minimized and can be easier handled in order to diminish delivery time and costs. As available methods of structure planning show disadvantages in comprehensive considerations of interdependency networks, an evolutionary algorithm based process has been developed for mediating case specific structural characteristics to the designer. In this context a fitness function has been implemented to meet the selection demands. Further, the new approach permits automated structure optimization by modifying single product dependencies. The designer obtains propositions for useful product adaptation regarding product's aptitude for later customization.
AB - The steady trend towards product customization requires new strategies in product design. A promising approach aims at the creation of predesigned product structures optimized for later component adaptations. Thus, if customer demands turn up, change impacts are minimized and can be easier handled in order to diminish delivery time and costs. As available methods of structure planning show disadvantages in comprehensive considerations of interdependency networks, an evolutionary algorithm based process has been developed for mediating case specific structural characteristics to the designer. In this context a fitness function has been implemented to meet the selection demands. Further, the new approach permits automated structure optimization by modifying single product dependencies. The designer obtains propositions for useful product adaptation regarding product's aptitude for later customization.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33745324716&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/11553939_189
DO - 10.1007/11553939_189
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33745324716
SN - 3540288961
SN - 9783540288961
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 1359
EP - 1365
BT - Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - 9th International Conference, KES 2005, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 9th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2005
Y2 - 14 September 2005 through 16 September 2005
ER -