Two methodologies for identifying product platform elements within an existing set of products

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Steva, Elizabeth D ^a   Rice, Elizabeth N ^a   Marion, Tucker J ^a   Simpson, Timothy W ^a   Stone, Robert B ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; COST ACCOUNTING; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MARKETING;

DESIGN STRUCTURE MATRICES; FUNCTION-COMPONENT MATRICES; PLATFORM IDENTIFICATION; PRODUCT-VECTOR MATRICES;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 33751352439     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2006-99234     Document Type: Conference Paper

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