Product line design with component commonality and cost-reduction effort

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 206-219

  Heese, Hans Sebastian ^a   Swaminathan, Jayashankar M ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Component commonality; Marketing manufacturing interface; Product line design

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT COMMONALITY; MARKETING-MANUFACTURING INTERFACE; PRODUCT LINE DESIGN;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY CONTROL; SALES;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 33646384940     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1060.0103     Document Type: Article

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