This paper reports on going work to explore the role of electronic product catalogues in design management and new opportunities offered by e-commerce applications related to building product information in the construction industry. An approach based on the performance-concept in order to facilitate product selection from e-catalogues is described. In this approach product selection is facilit...

The quality loss function assumes a fixed target and only accounts for immediate issues within manufacturing facilities whereas warranty loss occurs during customer use. Based on the two independent variables, product performance and consumers’ expectation, a methodology to predict the probability of customer complaint is presented in this paper. The formulation presented will serve as a basic ...

For most ¯rms, new product development is the engine for growth and pro¯tability. A ¯rm's new product success depends on its ability to manage the product development process in a way that employs scarce resources to achieve the goal of the ¯rm as well as the speci¯c project's objectives. Simple and measurable performance metrics have been proposed and applied in order to monitor and compensate...

P omegranate product in Khash city causes this city enjoys a considerable advantage in terms of the production of this product. In this paper the performance of Khash township pomegranate producers was evaluated with a comprehensive analysis of supercharged performance. In this regard, the relevant information to complete the questionnaire in 2015 pomegranate growers in Khash city, w...

in the traditional systems of irrigation and exploitation of water sources, especially the water sources behind dams, there isn't regular and consistent plan for their management and this can be caused the weakness of irrigation performance. in this connection, using both of optimization methods and geospatioal information system (gis) together can improve the performance of irrigation pro...

Market characteristics, including intrinsic demand and customer sensitivity on price and product performance level, are distinct at different markets. Comparisons of various product development strategies in one market or two geographically separated markets are conducted for three classes of products: development intensive products (DIPs) with constant unit cost, marginal cost-intensive produc...

Product development is often performed by functionally and geographically distributed groups of people. In such an environment, there are many concerns that must be traded off against one another before a product can be brought to market. An example of this tradeoff is high performance versus low cost; a product with high performance generally costs more than a product with low performance. Whe...

this study investigates and compares the efficacy of differentiated instruction and traditional-based instruction on enhancing iranian students’ reading comprehension. eight elementary, intermediate, and advanced classrooms from 1 language institute were chosen, and based on their performance on the pretests were further divided into 4 control and 4 treatment groups. flexible grouping, tiered i...