A heuristic method to identify modules from a functional description of a product

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 1998, Pages

  Stone, Robert B ^a   Wood, Kristin L ^b   Crawford, Richard H ^b  

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

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER PRODUCTS; PRODUCT DESIGN;

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; DEVELOPING PRODUCT; FUNCTIONAL DECOMPOSITION; FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCY; FUNCTIONAL MODEL; PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; PRODUCT FUNCTIONS;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 1542623880     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC98/DTM-5642     Document Type: Conference Paper

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