A customer needs motivated conceptual design methodology for product portfolio planning

Journal of Engineering Design

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 489-514

  Stone, Robert B ^a   Kurtadikar, Ravi ^a   Villanueva, Nicholas ^a   Arnold, Cari Bryant ^b  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Customer needs; Function based design; Modularity; Product platforms; Product portfolios

Indexed keywords

EID: 56449127074     PISSN: 09544828     EISSN: 14661837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09544820802286711     Document Type: Article

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