Designing and manufacturing consumer products for functionality: A literature review of current function definitions and design support tools

Integrated Manufacturing Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 6-7, 2001, Pages 430-448

  Chiang, Wen Chuan ^a   Pennathur, Arunkumar ^b   Mital, Anil ^a  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Manufacturing; Product design

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER PRODUCTS; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

MECHANICAL SYSTEMS DESIGN; PRODUCT DESIGN SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0035210403     PISSN: 09576061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000006108     Document Type: Article

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