Assessing and improving commonality and diversity within a product family

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Alizon, Fabrice ^a   Shooter, Steven B ^a   Simpson, Timothy W ^b  

^a BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Commonality; Diversity; Product family; Product platform; Variety

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPETITION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

COMMONALITY; PRODUCT FAMILY; PRODUCT PLATFORM;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 33751333948     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2006-99499     Document Type: Conference Paper

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