Dealing with subjectivity in early product design phase: A systematic approach to exploit Quality Function Deployment potentials

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 253-278

  Raharjo, Hendry ^a,b   Brombacher, Aarnout C ^a,b   Xie, Min ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ANP; Benchmarking; Feedback; New product development risk; QFD

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BENCHMARKING; COMPETITION; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MARKETING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT;

ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS (ANP); CORRELATION MATRIX (CM); CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS; DESIGN PHASE; DESIGN PROCESSES; ELSEVIER (CO); FEEDBACK INFORMATION (FBI); GENERALIZED MODELS; HOUSE OF QUALITY (HOQ); INPUT PARAMETERS; NETWORK MODELLING; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT (NPD); QUALITY FUNCTION; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT (QFD); RELATIONSHIP MATRIX; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SYSTEMATIC APPROACHES; TECHNICAL ATTRIBUTES;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 44649131924     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2007.12.012     Document Type: Article

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