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Product Line Engineering Comes to the Industrial Mainstream
Author(s) -
Clements Paul C.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2015.00131.x
Subject(s) - portfolio , aerospace , automotive industry , product engineering , product (mathematics) , mainstream , multitude , product line , manufacturing engineering , system of systems engineering , new product development , production engineering , domain engineering , biological systems engineering , engineering , computer science , systems engineering , engineering management , product design , industrial engineering , civil engineering software , business , software , systems design , marketing , software development , philosophy , mathematics , aerospace engineering , theology , geometry , epistemology , finance , component based software engineering , programming language
Product line engineering (PLE) is a systems engineering discipline to engineer a portfolio of related products in an efficient manner, taking full and ongoing advantage of the products’ similarities while respecting and managing their differences. Managing a portfolio as a single entity with variation, as opposed to a multitude of separate products, brings enormous efficiencies in production and maintenance. This paper shows that PLE has now matured into a repeatable, industrial‐strength engineering discipline. We define and explore the concepts central to modern product line engineering, and illustrate how it is becoming applied in two of the most challenging systems engineering domains of all: aerospace and defense, and automotive.