Product Line Architecture

Advanced training

Industry organizations and manufacturers of complex products and services now face fragmented markets where each segment is characterized by fierce competition and a high degree of specificity required by customers and end-users. There is therefore a real competitive advantage to be able to offer to end-users, and at controlled cost, products that suit their needs.
Our training answers this industrial challenge: how to make custom products at controlled costs and risks? You learn how to maximize the reusability of existing components, while mastering the diversity of a family / product line, leading to flexible and modular architectures.

Training objectives
At the end of the training, you will be able to:

Understand the stakes, issues, challenges and foundations of modular architecture
Implement, concretely, an operational, functional & constructional architecture approach in the context of a family or a product line
Know the strategic, managerial, organizational and financial impacts of setting up a family policy or product line.

Who should attend? Engineers, project managers, managers or directors, and/or you are involved in the design or management of product systems or complex projects.

Prerequisite: Have at least 3 years of experience in the field of design and management of complex industrial systems and know the fundamentals of system architecture.

Methods used & agenda: We dedicate a large part of our modules to conversing and practice to facilitate learning. During these 2 days you will immediately put into practice the architectural processes and tools on a simple industrial system, collectively chosen.

Program:

0. Introduction of the module

1. Panorama of families and product lines

2. Business Architecture of a Family / Product Line
– Identification of stakeholder variability and use cases
– Definition of the segmentation grid of the environment & products
– Identification of the variability of needs
– Exercise: Operational Architecture of a Family / Product Line
– Synthesis

3. Functional and organic architecture of a family / product line
– Objectives, progress and deliverables

– Generic & family-specific functions and functional requirements / product lines
– Generic and family-specific components and organic requirements / product lines
– Exercise: functional analysis of a family / product line
– Synthesis

4. Family strategy / product line
– Definition of a platform strategy and a diversity management policy
– Definition of an instantiation strategy and the governance of a family / product line
– Exercise: defining a family / product line strategy
– Synthesis

5. Conclusion

Key information

CLASSROOM OR REMOTE

Format: Inter-company or intra-company

Where? For classroom trainings: CESAMES Academy (Paris)

Duration: 16 heures (2 days) – 9h00-12h30 / 13h30-18h00

Supports: Pdf version is sent by email before the training

Trainer: CESAMES senior architect

Cost: 
— Inter-company: 2.000 euros excl. taxes/pers. (Including lunch & snacks)
— Intra-company: Upon request

Follow-up: Attendance sheet signed by the trainees and the trainer each half-day and proof of attendance.

Evaluation of satisfaction: Satisfaction questionnaire completed by each trainee.

Contact us 
— academy@cesames.net
— +33 (0)1 40 15 54 27

CESAMES is a training provider registered under the number 11 75 46653 75.

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