Applying quality function deployment for the design of a next-generation manufacturing simulation game

International Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 787-800

  Kumar, Akshay ^a   Labib, Ashraf W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT CONCEPTUALIZATION; DATA SET; MANUFACTURING PLANNING; SIMULATION GAMES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION MAKING; GAME THEORY; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY;

QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT;

EID: 4644275930     PISSN: 0949149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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