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Chapter 16 PROCESS PLATFORM AND PRODUCTION CONFIGURATION FOR PRODUCT FAMILIES Jianxin (Roger) Jiao, Lianfeng Zhang, and Shaligram Pokharel School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798 1. INTRODUCTION One of the pressing needs faced by manufacturers nowadays is quick response to the requirements of individual customers while achieving high quality and near mass production efficiency, namely mass customization (Pine, 1993a). Due to product proliferation, manufacturing organizations are confronted with difficulties in dealing with frequent design changes and recurrent process variations, which augments the complexity of product and process structures (Westkamper, et al., 2000). Developing multiple products as product families based on common platforms has been well recognized as a successful approach in many industries (Sanderson and Uzumeri, 1997). Current practice in developing product families only encompasses the design domain - dealing with the transformation of diverse customer needs to functional requirements and subsequently the fulfillment of these requirements through a variety of design parameters (Simpson, 2004). It seldom, if not at all, explicitly considers the input from the backend of product realization, viz., production processes. While seeking technical solutions is the major concern in design, it is at the production stage that product costs are actually committed and product quality and lead times are determined per se. For a given design, the actual cost depends on how the production is planned and to what extent the economy of scale can be realized within the existing manufactu