Ranking engineering characteristics in Quality Function Deployment by factoring-in the roof values

International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 223-240

  Sharma, J R ^a   Rawani, A M ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Correlation; ECs; Engineering characteristics; India; Prioritisation; QFD; Quality Function Deployment; Rankings; Roof

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149098423     PISSN: 17466474     EISSN: 17466482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJPQM.2008.016566     Document Type: Article

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