Involving suppliers in product development in the united states and japan: evidence for set-based concurrent engineering

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 165-178

  Liker, Jeffrey K ^a   Durward, K ^a   Sobek, I ^a   Ward, Allen C ^a   Cristiano, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; DECISION MAKING; MARKETING; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SET BASED CONCURRENT ENGINEERING;

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030148492     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/17.509982     Document Type: Article

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