Decision Support for Frugal Products and Production Systems based on Product-Process-Resource-Skill & Variability Models
Abstract
Companies intending to introduce frugal products into emerging markets need to consider economic, technical, and socio-cultural constraints. Customizations of their products to local demands require adjusting the respective production system. Thus, companies have to decide about the technical and economic feasibility regarding the production of frugal products. As decision support, we propose the novel combination of Product-Process-Resource-Skill & Variability (PPRSV) models with knowledge on typical constraints. Because PPRSV models incorporate the process-resource-skill combinations of all drafted variants of a product, they foster a decision about introducing particular frugal products in targeted markets and an estimation of the required effort.
