A comprehensive review on recent developments in quality function deployment

International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 457-494

  Xu, Jenny ^a   Xu, Xun ^a   Xie, Shane Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

CRs; Customer requirements; ECs; Engineering characteristics; Integration; Methodologies; Product design; Product development; QFD; Quality function deployment; Review; Technical improvements

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958010830     PISSN: 17466474     EISSN: 17466482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJPQM.2010.035893     Document Type: Article

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