Iteration in engineering design: Inherent and unavoidable or product of choices made?

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 669-674

  Costa, Ramon ^a   Sobek II, Durward K ^a  

^a Idaho National Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Design Process Attributes; Engineering Design; Iteration; New Product Development; Set based Concurrent Engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; DECISION MAKING; HEURISTIC METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; PROBABILITY; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SET THEORY;

DESIGN PROCESS ATTRIBUTES; ENGINEERING DESIGN; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SET BASED CONCURRENT ENGINEERING;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 1842759626     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2003/dtm-48662     Document Type: Conference Paper

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