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'''Modular Function Deployment''' (MFD) is a method for creating modular product architectures, based on research performed at [[KTH Royal Institute of Technology]] in the 1990s.<ref>Gunnar Erixon: "Modular Function Deployment – A Method for Product Modularisation", Ph.D. Thesis [http://swepub.kb.se/bib/swepub:oai:DiVA.org:kth-2619?tab2=abs&language=en], The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 1998. TRITA-MSM R-98-1, ISSN 1104-2141, ISRN KTH/MSM/R-98/1-SE.</ref> As a result of said research, the company Modular Management was registered in 1996, offering consultancy services centered on the MFD method.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About - Modular Management|url=https://www.modularmanagement.com/about|access-date=2021-02-16|website=www.modularmanagement.com|language=en}}</ref>

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With a modular product architecture, companies can offer a wide range of products and services without increasing complexity, since modules and module variants, like blocks of [[LEGO]], can be configured in many different ways. The MFD method ensures that each module has functional, strategic and customer-centric value and can be combined with other modules through standardized interfaces.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last1=Ericsson|first1=Anna|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M-SPpezS7WkC&q=lego&pg=PP12|title=Controlling Design Variants: Modular Product Platforms|last2=Erixon|first2=Gunnar|date=1999|publisher=Society of Manufacturing Engineers|isbn=978-0-87263-514-2|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Lehtonen|first=Timo|url=https://trepo.tuni.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/114367/lehtonen713.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|title=Designing Modular Product Architecture in the New Product Development|publisher=Tampere University of Technology|year=2007|isbn=978-952-15-1924-6|___location=Tampere}}</ref> A modular product architecture can enable [[mass customization]], where customers configure and order personalized—rather than ready-made—products and services.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mikkola|first=J. H.|date=February 2007|title=Management of Product Architecture Modularity for Mass Customization: Modeling and Theoretical Considerations|url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4077236|journal=IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management|volume=54|issue=1|pages=57–69|doi=10.1109/TEM.2006.889067|s2cid=33577589|issn=1558-0040|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

'''[https://modularmanagement.com/mfd/ Modular Function Deployment (MFD)]''' is a method invented by [https://modularmanagement.com/ Modular Management] to create product architectures.

With a modular product architecture, companies can offer a wide range of products and services without increasing complexity, since modules and module variants, like blocks of [https://www.lego.com LEGO], can be configured in many different ways. The MFD method ensures that each module has functional, strategic and customer-centric value and can be combined with other modules through standardized interfaces. A modular product architecture is a means to enable [[Mass_customization|mass customization]], where customers configure and order personalized - rather than ready-made - products and services.

==Five Steps==

MFD consists of five steps and is often illustrated as a circle to emphasize that it is an iterative process.<ref name=":0" />

1. #Clarify Customer Needs

2. #Identify Functions and Solutions

3. #Propose Modules and Interfaces

4. #Define Variants and Configurations

5. #Confirm Architecture Feasibility

== References ==

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* Gunnar Erixon: "Modular Function Deployment – A Method for Product Modularisation", Ph.D. Thesis [http://swepub.kb.se/bib/swepub:oai:DiVA.org:kth-2619?tab2=abs&language=en], The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 1998. TRITA-MSM R-98-1, ISSN 1104-2141, ISRN KTH/MSM/R-98/1-SE.

* [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"], Gilles Clemen / Rotarex Automotive S.A., Lintgen/Luxembourg [http://team.fh-kl.de/fileadmin/team/albert-meij/pdf/Zusammenfassung_Gilles_Clemen.pdf]

==External links==

* [https://modularmanagement.com/mfd/ Modular Function Deployment]

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