Information hiding in product development: The design churn effect

Research in Engineering Design

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 145-161

  Yassine, Ali ^a   Joglekar, Nitin ^b   Braha, Dan ^c   Eppinger, Steven ^c   Whitney, Daniel ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Component and system performance generation; Decomposition and integration; Design churn; Design process modeling; Information hiding; Product development

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENCAPSULATION; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; JOB ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPONENT AND SYSTEM PERFORMANCE GENERATION; DECOMPOSITION AND INTEGRATION; DESIGN CHURN; DESIGN PROCESS MODELING; INFORMATION HIDING;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 1842475377     PISSN: 09349839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00163-003-0036-2     Document Type: Article

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