Extension of the target cascading formulation to the design of product families

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 293-301

  Kokkolaras, M ^a   Fellini, R ^a   Kim, H M ^a   Michelena, N F ^a   Papalambros, P Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Commonality; Product families; Product platforms; Systems design optimization; Target cascading

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARETO PRINCIPLE; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; VECTORS;

COMMONALITY; HIERARCHICAL OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCT FAMILIES; PRODUCT PLATFORMS; SYSTEMS DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; TARGET CASCADING;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0036810518     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-002-0240-0     Document Type: Article

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