Simulation of the new product development process for performance improvement

Management Science

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1690-1703

  Bhuiyan, Nadia ^a   Gerwin, Donald ^b   Thomson, Vince ^c  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Concurrent engineering; Cross functional teams; New product development; Overlapping; Sequential engineering; Stochastic simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; COSTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

CROSS-FUCNTIONAL TEAMS; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; OVERLAPPING; SEQUENTIAL ENGINEERING (SE); STOCHASTIC SIMULATION;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 11844285666     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1040.0309     Document Type: Article

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