Optimization impossible?

Quality Progress

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 59-64

  Lowe, A J ^a   Ridgway, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

IMPOSSIBILITY THEOREM; QUALITY MATRIX; QUANTITATIVE DATA;

QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT;

EID: 0034227125     PISSN: 0033524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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