Product platform design for a product family based on Kansei engineering

Journal of Engineering Design

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 589-607

  Kuang, Junsheng ^a   Jiang, Pingyu ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Kansei engineering; Preference similarity; Product platform design; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449859516     PISSN: 09544828     EISSN: 14661837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09544820802132410     Document Type: Article

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