Maturity model for product development information

To shorten time-to-market intervals of new products, product development processes and manufacturing system planning are parallelized increasingly. Consequently, manufacturing system planning has to use premature input information from product development. To facilitate the handling of this premature information, this paper presents a maturity model to evaluate uncertain information from early product development phases, e.g. requirements, function structures or principle solutions, concerning the information's reliability and applicability as input for manufacturing system planning. The maturity model is intended to be one building block of a superordinate model-based planning process for the early conceptual design of manufacturing systems. (C) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B. V.