Competitive advantage by adjusting design characteristics to satisfy cost targets

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 64-71

  Iranmanesh, Hossein ^a   Thomson, Vince ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Goal programming; New product development (NPD); Product design; Quality function deployment (QFD); Target costing; Value engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; PRODUCT DESIGN; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT;

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES; COST TARGETS; DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS; DESIGN PARAMETERS; GOAL PROGRAMMING; GOAL PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUE; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT (NPD); OPERATIONAL LEVEL; PRODUCT ATTRIBUTES; QUALITY FUNCTION; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT (QFD); STRATEGIC LEVELS; TARGET COSTING; VALUE ENGINEERING;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 49049097462     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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