Facilitating product and production development in early phases utilizing production features assets

Product portfolio and long-term predictions are required to develop production lines. However, the predictions are influenced by changing customer needs, regulations, geopolitical issues and circular strategies. Production lines are expensive, and both product and production systems should be designed for planned and unplanned changes. Production Feature Asset and a method to use these are proposed where production requirements are embodied at the interface of product-production systems. Production Feature Asset supports continuous collaboration between the product and production development domains by providing product artefacts that are purposely designed to facilitate production, enabling reuse of production lines and sustainability knowledge.