Model-based rapid redesign using decomposition patterns

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 283-294

  Chen, Li ^a   Macwan, Ashish ^b   Li, Simon ^c  

^a UNITED TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agile manufacturing; Decomposition; Design customization; Design dependency matrix; Large scale computational design; Redesign

Indexed keywords

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; REENGINEERING;

DESIGN DEPENDENCY ANALYSIS; PATTERN SELECTION ANALYSIS; PATTERN-BASED DECOMPOSITION; REDESIGN PARTITIONING ANALYIS;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 34248333401     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2406099     Document Type: Article

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