Product family and platform design is a strategic approach in manufacturing that allows companies to create a range of products using a common set of components or systems. This method not only ...

The motivation for using Extended Twin Family Designs (ETFDs), including how ETFDs can reduce biases that occur in other designs arising from assortative mating and passive G-E covariance arising from ...

“Especially multi-family products in suburban areas,” he ... and with his background in architectural design, a great floor plan was mandatory. “I’ve been working since I’ve been 14 ...

This lecture shows how to derive expectations of variances and covariances in ETFDs using path tracing rules. We use a “Nuclear Twin Family Design” as an example. throughout.