Principles of product flexibility

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Qureshi, Atif ^a   Murphy, Jeremy T ^a   Kuchinsky, Benjamin ^a   Seepersad, Carolyn C ^a   Wood, Kristin L ^a   Jensen, Daniel D ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Design flexibility; Design principles; Flexibility; Flexibility principles; Fuel cell; Methodology for flexibility; Principle driven concept generation

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; FUEL CELLS; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE;

DESIGN FLEXIBILITY; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; FLEXIBILITY; FLEXIBILITY PRINCIPLES; METHODOLOGY FOR FLEXIBILITY;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 33751350196     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2006-99583     Document Type: Conference Paper

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