An investigation of rank reserval when using fuzzy importance levels in QFD analysis

International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 185-203

  Iranmanesh, Seybd Hossein ^a   Salimi, Mohamad Hossein ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fuzzy arithmetic; Fuzzy numbers; Fuzzy set theory; House of Quality; Linguistic variable; Quality Function Deployment; Weighting scale

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; LINGUISTICS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

RANK REVERSAL;

QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT;

EID: 0042433502     PISSN: 02185393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218539303001081     Document Type: Conference Paper

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