A strategy for managing customer-oriented product design

Concurrent Engineering Research and Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 231-244

  Lin, Ming Chyuan ^a   Wang, Chen Cheng ^a   Chen, Tzu Chang ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIWAN TEXTILE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Customer requirements; Functional clothes; Interpretive structural modeling; Product design; Quality function deployment

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; GARMENT MANUFACTURE; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS; FUNCTIONAL CLOTHES; INTERPRETIVE STRUCTURAL MODELING;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 33747874074     PISSN: 1063293X     EISSN: 15312003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1063293X06068390     Document Type: Article

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