Modeling dependencies in engineering design

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 1999, Pages 389-398

  Wang, Kai Lu ^a   Jin, Yan ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative design; Concurrent engineering; Design entities; Design process model; Design task management; Engineering dependency

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN;

COLLABORATIVE DESIGN; COLLABORATIVE ENGINEERING; COMMUNICATION EFFICIENCY; COORDINATION FRAMEWORKS; COORDINATION MECHANISMS; COORDINATION METHODS; ENGINEERING DESIGN; EXPLICIT COMMUNICATION;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH;

EID: 77955199781     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC99/DTM-8778     Document Type: Conference Paper

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