Viewing product development as a decision production system

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2002, Pages 323-332

  Herrmann, Jeffrey W ^a   Schmidt, Linda C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Product development

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION USE; PROBLEM SOLVING; DESIGN; HEALTH RISKS; MANUFACTURE; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

DECISION PRODUCTION SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKERS; DESIGN DECISIONS; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; MANUFACTURING SYSTEM; ORGANIZATION STRUCTURES; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; PRODUCT FORMS; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 0036979696     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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