Cost of complexity is a term often used to describe the costs that are caused by introducing new product platforms and products, as well as managing the variety of products produced. Many different pr...

Construction has a hard time to match the productivity of other industries Although there have been multiple phases of industrialization, these changes have had varying degrees of success. And despite...

This is my second post in a series of blogs around modular systems and configurable product platforms. In the first post, What makes a Good Modular system? I looked at how good modular systems balance...

A good modular system balances the scope of the system and its lifespan with the effort to create it. In this post, I will suggest a schematic metric that explains the value over time of such a modula...