The design process of product variants involves complicated task planning that needs to leverage a number of design activities and resources. A comprehensive product variant design process model is imperative for capturing the semantics underlying product variants and subsequently supporting design process planning decisions. This paper applies timed colored Petri nets (TCPN) to model various elements of the product variant design process. The TCPN model performs as a generic design process platform from which alternative configurations of process plans can be derived and further converted to discrete-event simulation models for evaluation. A case study of car dashboard family design demonstrates that the TCPN design process model can effectively represent the elements of multiple design processes and support design task planning while leveraging design activities and resource allocation at the entire product family level.
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June 2009
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Modeling the Design Process of Product Variants With Timed Colored Petri Nets
Qianli Xu,
Qianli Xu
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
e-mail: qlxu@ntu.edu.sg
Nanyang Technological University
, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798
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Jianxin (Roger) Jiao
Jianxin (Roger) Jiao
The G. W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering,
e-mail: roger.jiao@me.gatech.edu
Georgia Institute of Technology
, Atlanta, GA 30332-0405
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Qianli Xu
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Nanyang Technological University
, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798e-mail: qlxu@ntu.edu.sg
Jianxin (Roger) Jiao
The G. W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology
, Atlanta, GA 30332-0405e-mail: roger.jiao@me.gatech.edu
J. Mech. Des. Jun 2009, 131(6): 061009 (9 pages)
Published Online: May 21, 2009
Article history
Received:
January 19, 2008
Revised:
March 8, 2009
Published:
May 21, 2009
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Xu, Q., and Jiao, J. (. (May 21, 2009). "Modeling the Design Process of Product Variants With Timed Colored Petri Nets." ASME. J. Mech. Des. June 2009; 131(6): 061009. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.3125203
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