Measuring and optimizing systems' quality costs and project duration

Systems Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 259-280

  Engel, Avner ^a   Shachar, Shalom ^a  

^a ISRAEL AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES   (Israel)

Author keywords

Optimization; Quality; Testing; Validation; Verification; VVT

Indexed keywords

AVIONICS; COSTS; DATA ACQUISITION; OPTIMIZATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

QUALITY COSTS; VALIDATION; VERIFICATION; VVT;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 33748419465     PISSN: 10981241     EISSN: 15206858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sys.20056     Document Type: Article

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