A customer needs motivated conceptual design methodology for product portfolios

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 153-166

  Kurtadikar, Ravindra M ^a   Stone, Robert B ^b   Van Wie, Mike ^b   McAdams, Daniel A ^a  

^a University of Missouri Rolla   (United States)

^b MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; PRODUCT DESIGN; SALES;

COUPLING INDEX (CI); GENERATIONAL VARIETY INDEX (GVI); PLATFORM DESIGN STRATEGY; PRODUCT VARIANTS; 'CURRENT; BASE PLATFORMS; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN STAGES; CUSTOMER NEED; CUSTOMERS' SATISFACTION; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; DESIGN OF PRODUCT; EMBODIMENT DESIGN; PRODUCT PORTFOLIOS;

PRODUCT DESIGN; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN;

EID: 14044262376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2004-57289     Document Type: Conference Paper

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