Improvement of product sustainability

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 3548-3553

  Gao, Meimei ^a   Zhou, MengChu ^a   Wang, Fei Yue ^b,c  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THEOREM PROVING;

ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY; PRODUCT SUSTAINABILITY; RESOURCE PRODUCTIVITY; SUSTAINABILITY TARGET METHOD;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0345327744     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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