Functional analysis: A fundamental empirical study for reverse engineering, benchmarking and redesign

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 1997, Pages

  Little, Aaron D ^a   Wood, Kristin L ^b   McAdams, Daniel A ^a  

^a WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Function Classication; Functional Analysis; Product Categorization; Reverse Engineering

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SALES;

BUSINESS CASE ANALYSIS; CONCEPT SELECTION; DESIGN BY ANALOGIES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; HOUSE OF QUALITY; PRODUCT FUNCTIONS; PRODUCT GEOMETRY; TAGUCHI ANALYSIS;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 85101079658     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC97/DTM-3879     Document Type: Conference Paper

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