Seminar on modularisation and modular design - Efficiently designing scalable and modular product architectures
For years, the variety of variants in manufacturing companies has been increasing. This enormous variety of variants results in a high degree of complexity and associated costs. Successful complexity management and, in particular, modular product kits can reduce internal variant diversity without eliminating important configurations for the customer. In this seminar, you will learn how to develop a kit for your company. The methodological approach will be illustrated with numerous practical examples and applied to your products in the workshop.
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Event description
In the seminar, you will first learn the basics and strategies of complexity management. The aim is to be able to realize the greatest possible external variety of customer configurations with the smallest possible internal variety of components and modules. The key to this is a modular concept. You will be introduced to four steps in the development of a modular concept: starting with the market and customer analysis as well as the product and process analysis. After the two steps of the analysis phase, standards and the necessary number of variants are defined. Finally, the configuration logic is developed, which enables you to automatically assemble the modules of your products depending on the customer's selection. However, construction kits do not end with concept development. Therefore, the organizational anchoring of the modular strategy and the management of the modular system are also addressed. Our experts will present success factors identified from practical examples for modular design and in the workshop you will deepen what you have learned through direct application.
By attending the seminar you will learn...:
- the basics of complexity management
- the procedure for developing a modular concept
- how to systematically analyze the market and customer perspective
- how to analyze your existing products and processes
- which methods you can use to plan standards and variance
- how to transfer your concept into a configurator
- know many examples from practice
- how to successfully anchor and manage your modular concept
Topic areas
- Modular product system
- Modular system
- Variety of variants
- Modularization
- Variant management
- Complexity management
- Modular architecture
- Product architecture
Target group
Agenda
| Time | Programme item |
|---|---|
| 10:00 | Begrüßung und Kennenlernen |
| 11:00 | Einführung in das Komplexitätsmanagement |
| 11:45 | Pause & Networking |
| 12:15 | Erster Schritt zum Baukasten: Markt- und Sortimentsanalyse zum Management der externen Vielfalt |
| 13:00 | Gemeinsames Mittagessen |
| 14:00 | Zweiter Schritt zum Baukasten: Produktstrukturierung zum Management der internen Vielfalt |
| 14:45 | Workshop Teil I: Markt- und Produktanalyse |
| 15:30 | Pause & Networking |
| 16:00 | Dritter Schritt zum Baukasten: Definition von Baukastenstandards |
| 16:45 | Workshop Teil II: Abgleich Markt- und Produktsicht |
| 17:30 | Ende der Veranstaltung |
| 19:00 | Gemeinsames Abendessen |
| Time | Programme item |
|---|---|
| 09:00 | Review des ersten Tages |
| 09:15 | Exkurs: Bewertung von Produktvarianten mittels Komplexitätskosten |
| 09:45 | Vierter Schritt zum Baukasten: Baukastenkonfiguration |
| 10:30 | Pause & Networking |
| 11:00 | Workshop Teil III: Baukastenstandards |
| 12:00 | Gemeinsames Mittagessen |
| 13:00 | Organisatorische Verankerung im Komplexitätsmanagement |
| 13:45 | Pause & Networking |
| 14:15 | Steuerung von Produktbaukästen |
| 15:30 | Wrap-up: "What to do on Monday" |
Your contact
Timm Schulz-Isenbeck, M.Sc.
Mobil: +49 160 99081688
timm.schulz-isenbeck@complexity-academy.com
Experience
- Implementation support for the introduction and implementation of the CTO strategy of an MDAX company.
- Assessment of potential through the introduction of a continuous configuration process and support during the implementation phase.
- Multiple complexity assessments to analyse external and internal variant diversity.
- Market analyses and identification of innovation fields for digital products.
- Development and support of innovation strategy audits.
- Development and implementation of a consortium benchmarking study to identify success factors in AI-supported product development with 21 companies.
- Leading the innovation management focus group.
- Conducting in-house seminars on modularisation and modular design as well as product and portfolio management.
- Developing and conducting a complexity management study focusing on sustainability and product and portfolio management.