Notice of RetractionThe module division on extension-distance on the enterprise resource

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The competitiveness in today´s market forces many companies to rethink how to organize the enterprise resource. Many manufacturing companies are developing families of products to provide enough variety for the marketplace while keeping costs relatively low. As the traditional similarity measure used in module division is to the design stage in which the features and set are static, it is impossible to find the similar components in alterative design stages. For this reason, a new module division method on extension-distance is presented. In the different design environments, three distance concepts are discussed, namely, feature-to-feature, feature-toset and set-to-set. The first concept will be employed as the base for extension-cluster method in the platform design on the thought of each structure´ s features between two adjacent structure components, while the second is used to build the function constraint in the customized components division for the virtual organization process. In the extension-cluster method, product adaptability measure is induced to evaluate whether the platform is adaptable compared to fuzzy cluster measure.