Prioritising technical attributes in QFD under vague environment: A rough-grey relational analysis approach

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 52, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 5528-5545

  Song, Wenyan ^a   Ming, Xinguo ^a   Han, Yi ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

technical attributes priority

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS; GREY RELATIONAL ANALYSES (GRA); PROBLEM-SOLVING TOOLS; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENTS (QFD); RELATIONAL ANALYSIS; ROUGH SET THEORY (RST); SUBJECTIVE INFORMATION; TECHNICAL ATTRIBUTES;

QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT;

EID: 84906316111     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2014.917213     Document Type: Article

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