Product portfolio map:a visual tool for supporting product variant discovery and structuring

作     者：Soren Ulonska Torgeir Welo 

作者机构：Faculty of Engineering Science and TechnologyNorwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheimNorway Department of Engineering Design and MaterialsNorwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheimNorway 

出 版 物：《Advances in Manufacturing》 (先进制造进展（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2014年第2卷第2期

页      面：179-191页

核心收录：

学科分类：120202[管理学-企业管理（含：财务管理、市场营销、人力资源管理）] 12[管理学] 1202[管理学-工商管理] 

主　　题：Knowledge-based development(KBD) Knowledge discovery Product architecture Product portfolio mapping 

摘      要：A fundamental criterion for reusing and continuously improving knowledge in product development is ensuring that the knowledge is explicit and *** paper is based on the situation of an engineer-to-order（ETO） manufacturing company,where historically grown product variety and related knowledge are diffuse（tacit）.Consequently,several resources are used in（re）developing derivatives of previous products rather than innovating new *** establish a more competitive configure-to-order（CTO） product strategy,product knowledge needs to be revealed,systemized,and structured,and thus made ***,product-specific knowledge and product variants have been analyzed and subsequently mapped at architectural,functional,and physical levels in one unified map and tested in the form of a proof-of-concept（POC）demonstrator with the introduced SME *** result is a product portfolio map that forms a base for defining a systemized,transparent,unified product variant overview,which can be used as a basis for implementing a cross-variant product architecture and supporting knowledge-based approaches.