The role of design freeze in product development

Proceedings ICED 05, the 15th International Conference on Engineering Design

Volumn DS 35, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Eger, Tido ^a   Eckert, Claudia ^b   Clarkson, P John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Change prediction; Change propagation; Design freeze; New product development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862621313     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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