Abstract: This paper presents a method for assessing the quality of a progressive design process by measuring the profitability of the product that the process generates. The proposed approach uses ...

Abstract: This paper introduces the technique of separation, which replaces a design optimization problem with a set of subproblems. This separation is similar to decomposition but does not require a ...

Abstract: Product development organizations are unwilling to compromise product functionality, unit cost, or time to market in order to create products that have less environmental impact than that required ...