Design parameter estimation using a modified QFD method to improve customer perception

Concurrent Engineering Research and Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 57-67

  Hossein Iranmanesh, Seyed ^a   Thomson, Vincent ^b   Hossein Salimi, Mohammad ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Design strategy; Goal programming; House of quality; Quality function deployment

Indexed keywords

COSTS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DESIGN STRATEGY; GOAL PROGRAMMING; HOUSE-OF-QUALITY;

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING;

EID: 14644406302     PISSN: 1063293X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1063293X05051772     Document Type: Article

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