Design process error-proofing: Lessons from and challenges for NASA

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Design Engineering Division (Publication) DE

Volumn 118 A, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 243-253

  Chao, Lawrence P ^a   Tumer, Irem ^b   Ishii, Kosuke ^c  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Error proofing; Mars; NASA; Review

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; ERROR ANALYSIS; PLANETS; SPACE RESEARCH;

ERROR PROOFING; MARS; NASA; REVIEW;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 33645036535     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2005-79451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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