Unpleasant surprises in the design of complex products: Why do changes propagate?

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ariyo, Owolabi ^a   Eckert, Claudia M ^a   Clarkson, P John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causation; Change propagation; Predictability

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE INDUSTRY; AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CAUSATION; CHANGE PROPAGATION; PREDICTABILITY;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 33751328561     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2006-99409     Document Type: Conference Paper

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