Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
© 2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers
Call for Papers
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
Special Issue on
Product Family Design and Development
Guest Editors
Jianxin (Roger) Jiao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Timothy W. Simpson, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma, USA
The rationale for developing product families to satisfy diverse customer needs while keeping low costs has been well recognized in both academia and industry. This special issue is dedicated to recent advances in product family design and development. Original papers of both theoretical and practical nature are welcome, as well as state-of-the-art reviews and discussions of future research directions in the field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
· Fundamental issues of product families (e.g., variety, modularity, commonality, adaptability, flexibility, reusability, customizability, etc.);
· Customer engineering for product families, Kansei engineering, customer decision making and interaction with product families, product proliferation, requirement management, product definition, product line positioning, product portfolio, functional modeling;
· Product family architecture, product platform, product family configuration, design modeling and support, product family design automation and optimization, designing product families for make- or configure-to-order production;
· Production and process planning of product families, assembly systems for product families, variant handling, agile, flexible and reconfigurable processes, sales and manufacturing interface, synchronization of product and process platforms;
· Supply chain coordination for product families, early supplier and customer involvement in product family design, e-design and e-manufacturing systems for product families, design for postponement of product families, integration of customer, product, process and logistics, collaborative product and process commerce;
· Performance measure, economies of scale and scope, valuation and cost accounting of product families, product family data models and information systems; and
· New strategies, project management, organization issues, enabling technologies (e.g., e-commerce, AI, OR, etc.), business models, case studies, and industrial practice.
Important dates:
Submission of full papers
31 October 2004
Notification and reviews to authors
15 January 2005
Final decision and submission of final papers
15 March 2005
Planned publication date
June 2005
Authors should follow the Notes for Authors of JIM when preparing their manuscripts for submission. Please refer to the JIM website: http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0956-5515/.
Please submit papers in electronic form (preferable in Word, PDF, or Zip file) to one of the guest editors:
