Mapping customer needs to engineering characteristics: an aerospace perspective for conceptual design

Journal of Engineering Design

Volumn 25, Issue 1-3, 2014, Pages 64-87

  Eres, Murat Hakki ^a   Bertoni, Marco ^b   Kossmann, Mario ^c   Scanlan, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c AIRBUS OPERATIONS LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aerospace conceptual design; customer needs; design merit; design optimisation; extended enterprise; value driven design

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE INDUSTRY; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; ITERATIVE METHODS; SALES;

CUSTOMER NEED; DESIGN OPTIMISATION; DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES; ENGINEERING CHARACTERISTICS; ENGINEERING DESIGN; EXTENDED ENTERPRISE; MANUFACTURING COST; VALUE-DRIVEN DESIGN;

FORMAL CONCEPT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84902283953     PISSN: 09544828     EISSN: 14661837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09544828.2014.903387     Document Type: Article

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