Product variety and reliability

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1601-1608

  Murthy, D N P ^a   Hagmark, P E ^b   Virtanen, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Business objectives; Customer satisfaction; Product reliability; Sales; Warranty

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS OBJECTIVES; NEW PRODUCT; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PRODUCT RELIABILITY; PRODUCT VARIETY; RELIABILITY ENGINEERING; SYSTEM SAFETY; WARRANTY;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SALES; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 67649445880     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2009.02.030     Document Type: Article

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