Configuring products using NSGA-II: warranty profits, performance–price, and environmental emissions from the contractor perspective
Release time:2024-03-07
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DOI number:10.1080/09544828.2022.2139524
Journal:Journal of Engineering Design
Key Words:NSGA-II; product configuration; warranty profit; kano model; electric vehicle charging pile
Abstract:In the context of mass customization business activities, product configuration (PC) can assist companies in quickly occupying the market and improving their competitive advantage. In this paper, contractors are defined as outsourcing companies for producers and manufacturers that do not possess self-developed product moduletechnology and who are more knowledgeable and discerning consumer representatives. This study focused on a PC approach that includes optional, redundant, and common modules. In this approach, three objective functions were considered and solved using NSGA-II: warranty profit, performance-price, and environmental emissions. Warranty profit is calculated by forcing the product failure probability to satisfy a power-law distribution and the user selection behavior to satisfy a multinomiallogit (MNL) model. Kano’s model-based user satisfaction and the relative importance of the product module instance are used to calculate performance-price. The environmental emissions were determined from both production and assembly emissions of the module instance. Additionally, a chromosome encoding method and a chromosome crossover operation were designed for the PC problem. Finally, the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method were verified by taking an electric vehicle DC charging pile configuration project as an example, and discussing and explaining the practical significance of each parameter in the example.
Indexed by:Journal paper
Discipline:Engineering
Document Type:J
Volume:33
Issue:8-9
Page Number:545–566
Translation or Not:no
Date of Publication:2022-11-14
Included Journals:SCI