Fundamentals of product family architecture

Integrated Manufacturing Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 469-483

  Jiao, Jianxin ^a   Tseng, Mitchell M ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Customer requirements; Product variety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986178133     PISSN: 09576061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09576060010349776     Document Type: Article

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