Design for quality and reliability using expert system and computer spreadsheet

Journal of the Franklin Institute

Volumn 336, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1063-1074

  Liu, T I ^a   Yang, X M ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRODUCT DESIGN; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY; SPREADSHEETS;

COMPUTER SPREADSHEET; SOFTWARE PACKAGE EASYDFQR;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033189879     PISSN: 00160032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-0032(99)00019-8     Document Type: Article

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