Practices of robust design methodology in practice

TQM Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-58

  Gremyr, Ida ^a   Hasenkamp, Torben ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Vestas Nacelles Deutschland ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Design; Quality management; Sweden

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY-BASED; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; DOMESTIC USE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES; ROBUST DESIGNS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; SWEDEN; TOOL USE;

CONSUMER PRODUCTS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; INDUSTRY; QUALITY CONTROL;

QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 79952050084     PISSN: 17542731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17542731111097489     Document Type: Article

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