Systems engineering and cost as an independent variable

Systems Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 233-241

  Brady, Jim ^a  

^a RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development cost; DFMA; DOE; Lean manufacturing; Manufacturing cost; Process improvement; QFD; Six sigma

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010725278     PISSN: 10981241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sys.1020     Document Type: Article

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