Design for flexibility: Making provisions for requirement changes

Proceedings of ICED 2007, the 16th International Conference on Engineering Design

Volumn DS 42, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bischof, Andreas ^a   Blessing, Luciënne ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptability; Changes; Design guidelines; Flexibility; Laboratory study; Participant observation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTABILITY; CHANGES; FLEXIBILITY; LABORATORY STUDIES; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATIONS;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

DESIGN;

EID: 84862588733     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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