Architectures for product families
Computers in Industry - Special issue: co-operation in manufacturing systems, CIM at work
Product family modeling for mass customization
ICC&IE Selected papers from the 22nd ICC&IE conference on Computers & industrial engineering
A fuzzy outranking method in energy policy planning
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Engineering Design: Products, Processes, and Systems
Engineering Design: Products, Processes, and Systems
A Model-Based Approach for Planning and Developing a Family of Technology-Based Products
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
A new approach based on soft computing to accelerate the selection of new product ideas
Computers in Industry
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing - SPECIAL ISSUE: Platform product development for mass customization
Evaluation of design requirements using fuzzy outranking methods: Research Articles
International Journal of Intelligent Systems
Fuzzy inference system for software product family process evaluation
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Standardization and modularization driven by minimizing overall process effort
Computer-Aided Design
A structural component-based approach for designing product family
Computers in Industry
A fuzzy-logic-based approach for new product Go/NoGo decision at the front end
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
A fuzzy configuration multi-agent approach for product family modelling in conceptual design
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
Fuzzy agent-based approach for consensual design synthesis in product configuration
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
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Over the past few years, a number of key issues related to the product family design have been addressed, and a great deal of work has been done to improve it. Many different tools have been employed in this effort, such as mass customization, modularity, delayed differentiation, commonality, platforms, product families, and so on. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how fuzzy logic has been applied and how it can help to improve the entire process of product family development. Given its powerful capability to represent aspects that binary variables cannot, we show how fuzzy logic has been used to take advantage by considering the vague parameters related to the human character in different processes. Our aim is to contribute to the understanding and improvement of product family development process by identifying essential applications of fuzzy logic. An extended overview of the product family development process is provided, and also this work highlights the role of fuzzy logic in it. Fourteen fuzzy logic tools and thirteen topics into the product family development process are identified and summarized as a framework to analyze the role of fuzzy logic and at the same time to identify further application opportunities.