A variant approach to product definition by recognizing functional requirement patterns

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 629-633

  Tseng, Mitchell M ^a   Jiao, Jianxin ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Functional requirements; Product definition; Product design

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; HEURISTIC METHODS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRODUCT DESIGN; TOPOLOGY;

FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT (FR) CLASSIFICATION; FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT (FR) PATTERNS; FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT (FR) TOPOLOGY;

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0031356546     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0360-8352(97)00209-x     Document Type: Article

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