TY  - THES
U1  - Bachelor Thesis
A1  - Weißer, Leo Lukas
T1  - Managing global platforms for electric vehicles  Implications on product design and organisational project management
N2  - The automotive industry is undergoing substantial structural changes. New forms of powertrains and players are emerging. Manufacturers, due to internal as well as external drivers, are building their cars on platforms. By making use of modular design approaches, they hope to satisfy customer needs best and stay competitive. When designing global platforms, local variations are to be avoided. The presented paper offers an approach to rank components of an electric vehicle according to their likeliness of a local design adaption. To verify the results of the value chain- based analysis, the variant indicator analysis, interviews were carried out. The analysis shows that the battery is most likely subject to design changes. Also, variant drivers in the value chain bear the highest potential for local redesigns.
KW  - Automotive industry
KW  - Electric vehicles
KW  - Modular design
KW  - Product platforms
KW  - Variant indicator analysis
Y2  - 2019
ER  -