Design for flexibility - Measures and guidelines

Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED

Volumn DS 31, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Palani Rajan, P K ^a   Van Wie, M ^b   Campbell, M ^b   Otto, K ^b   Wood, K ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Design for flexibility; Empirical study; Failure mode and effects analysis; Measurement; Product flexibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012292879     PISSN: 22204334     EISSN: 22204342     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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