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<h2 id="five-steps">Five Steps</h2> <p>MFD consists of five steps and is often illustrated as a circle to emphasize that it is an iterative process.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p> <ol><li>Clarify Customer Needs</li> <li>Identify Functions and Solutions</li> <li>Propose Modules and Interfaces</li> <li>Define Variants and Configurations</li> <li>Confirm Architecture Feasibility</li></ol> <ul><li>Gunnar Erixon: "Modular Function Deployment – A Method for Product Modularisation", Ph.D. Thesis. The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 1998. TRITA-MSM R-98-1, ISSN 1104-2141, ISRN KTH/MSM/R-98/1-SE.</li> <li><a href="http://team.fh-kl.de/fileadmin/team/albert-meij/pdf/Zusammenfassung_Gilles_Clemen.pdf">"Application of the Modular Function Deployment Tool on a pressure regulator"</a>, Gilles Clemen / Rotarex Automotive S.A., Lintgen/Luxembourg</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://modularmanagement.com/mfd/">Modular Function Deployment</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Gunnar Erixon: "Modular Function Deployment – A Method for Product Modularisation", Ph.D. Thesis [1], The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 1998. TRITA-MSM R-98-1, ISSN 1104-2141, ISRN KTH/MSM/R-98/1-SE. <a href="http://swepub.kb.se/bib/swepub:oai:DiVA.org:kth-2619?tab2=abs&language=en" target="_blank">http://swepub.kb.se/bib/swepub:oai:DiVA.org:kth-2619?tab2=abs&language=en</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"About - Modular Management". www.modularmanagement.com. Retrieved 2021-02-16. <a href="https://www.modularmanagement.com/about" target="_blank">https://www.modularmanagement.com/about</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Ericsson, Anna; Erixon, Gunnar (1999). Controlling Design Variants: Modular Product Platforms. Society of Manufacturing Engineers. ISBN 978-0-87263-514-2. <a href="978-0-87263-514-2" target="_blank">978-0-87263-514-2</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Lehtonen, Timo (2007). Designing Modular Product Architecture in the New Product Development (PDF). Tampere: Tampere University of Technology. ISBN 978-952-15-1924-6. <a href="978-952-15-1924-6" target="_blank">978-952-15-1924-6</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Mikkola, J. H. (February 2007). "Management of Product Architecture Modularity for Mass Customization: Modeling and Theoretical Considerations". IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. 54 (1): 57–69. doi:10.1109/TEM.2006.889067. ISSN 1558-0040. S2CID 33577589. <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4077236" target="_blank">https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4077236</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Ericsson, Anna; Erixon, Gunnar (1999). Controlling Design Variants: Modular Product Platforms. Society of Manufacturing Engineers. ISBN 978-0-87263-514-2. <a href="978-0-87263-514-2" target="_blank">978-0-87263-514-2</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>