Self-configuring components approach to product variant development

Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing: AIEDAM

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 41-54

  Germani, Michele ^a   Mandorli, Ferruccio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Feature based Model; Functional Analysis; Product Configuration

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMIZATION; FEATURE-BASED MODEL; FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; PRODUCT CONFIGURATION;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCTION CONTROL;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 14344263054     PISSN: 08900604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0890060404040041     Document Type: Article

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