Optimal new product design using quality function deployment with empirical value functions

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-32

  Dawson, Donald ^a,b   Askin, Ronald G ^a,c  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b U S ARMY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Design of experiments; Empirical modelling; Optimization; Quality function deployment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; COSTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; VALUE ENGINEERING;

EMPIRICAL VALUE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMAL ENGINEERING SPECIFICATIONS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0032689175     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1638(199901/02)15:1<17::AID-QRE203>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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