Designing for assembly quality: Strategies, guidelines and techniques

Journal of Engineering Design

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 279-295

  Booker, J D ^a   Swift, K G ^b   Brown, N J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Best practice; Product design; Product development; Quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844558161     PISSN: 09544828     EISSN: 14661837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09544820500126672     Document Type: Article

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