Integration of customer and designer preferences in robust design

International Journal of Six Sigma and Competitive Advantage

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 276-294

  Govindaluri, Srikrishna Madhumohan ^a   Cho, Byung Rae ^b  

^a The College of New Jersey   (United States)

^b AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

combined preferences; compromise programming; multiple quality characteristics; robust design; Tchebycheff metric

Indexed keywords

EID: 59049097855     PISSN: 14792494     EISSN: 14792753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSSCA.2005.008090     Document Type: Article

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