Scoping a product configuration project for engineer-to-order companies

International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 207-220

  Shafiee, Sara ^a   Hvam, Lars ^a   Bonev, Martin ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Product configuration; Rational unified process (RUP); Scoping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921658704     PISSN: 22172661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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