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Choosing The Best Software For Spec Review: An Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach, Bob Greenlee
Choosing The Best Software For Spec Review: An Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach, Bob Greenlee
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Every manufacturing company is faced with the problem of accurately converting customer requirements into products and deliverables, including a thorough review of customer specifications. Software can help facilitate this tedious and time consuming process, but choosing or designing the best solution is difficult due to conflicting and poorly prioritized criteria.
This paper illustrates the use of an analytic hierarchy process, specifically the hierarchical decision model (HDM) tool developed at Portland State University, to select the best software solution for facilitating customer spec review. In addition to resolving the primary question of which software to use, it shows how the HDM …