Describing products as executable programs: Variant specification in a customer-oriented environment

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 56-57, Issue , 1998, Pages 495-502

  Olsen, Kai A ^a   Sætre, Per ^a  

^a Molde College   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bill of materials (BOM); BOM generation; Generic product; Programming language; Variant handling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; VALUE ENGINEERING;

BILL OF MATERIALS (BOM); GENERIC PRODUCTS;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0042044354     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-5273(97)00066-2     Document Type: Article

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