On the applicability of product variety design concepts to automotive platform commonality

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 1998, Pages

  Siddique, Zahed ^a   Rosen, David W ^a   Wang, Nanxin ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING RESEARCH;

AUTOMOTIVE COMPANIES; KEY CHARACTERISTICS; MASS CUSTOMIZATION; PLATFORM COMMONIZATION; PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE; PRODUCT PLATFORMS; PRODUCT VARIETY DESIGNS; RELATED PRODUCTS;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 0042812735     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC98/DTM-5661     Document Type: Conference Paper

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