Updating a modular product: How to set time to market and component quality

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 298-311

  Wu, Lifang ^a   De Matta, Renato ^b   Lowe, Timothy J ^b  

^a XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Component reuse; Modular product design; Nonlinear programming; Product development

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT PART; COMPONENT REUSE; DESIGN COSTS; DESIGN IMPROVEMENTS; DEVELOPMENT COSTS; DEVELOPMENT PRODUCTIVITY; MARGINAL COSTS; MARKETING DECISION; MODULAR COMPONENTS; MODULAR PRODUCT DESIGN; MODULAR PRODUCTS; MULTICOMPONENT; NEW PRODUCT; PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE; PRODUCT LIFE CYCLES; PRODUCT QUALITY; SET TIME; SPEED-TO-MARKET; SPEED-UP; START-UP;

BUDGET CONTROL; COMMERCE; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; COSTS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; LAUNCHING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 67349200691     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2008.2005065     Document Type: Article

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