Abstract: The importance–performance analysis (IPA) is a widely used technique to guide strategic planning for the improvement of customer satisfaction. Compared with surveys, numerous online reviews can be easily collected at a ...

Abstract: Identifying product attributes from the perspective of a customer is essential to measure the satisfaction, importance, and Kano category of each product attribute for product design. This article proposes automated keyword ...

Abstract: Product and design analytics is emerging as a promising area for the analysis of largescale data and usage of the extracted knowledge for the design of optimal system. The continuous preference trend mining (CPTM) algorithm ...

Abstract: Economic and physical considerations often lead to equilibrium problems in multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO), which can be captured by MDO problems with complementarity constraints (MDO-CC)—a ...

Abstract: Product recovery has become a field of rapidly growing interest for product manufacturers as a promising solution for product stewardship as well as for economic viability. Because product ...

Abstract: As awareness of environmental issues increases, the pressures from the public and policy makers have forced original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to consider remanufacturing as the key product design option. In order to ...

Abstract: This paper presents a novel mixed integer linear programing (MILP) formulation for finding the optimal layout of a fixed number of identical turbines that maximizes wind farm power generation. Previous MILP formulations ...

Abstract: Recently, online usergenerated data have emerged as a valuable source for industrial applications. In the consumer product area, many studies analyze online data and draw implications on product design. However, most of ...

Abstract: Recently, online user-generated data have been used as an efficient resource for customer analysis. In the product design area, various methods for analyzing customer preference for product features have been suggested. ...

Abstract: Short life cycle products are frequently replaced and discarded, even though they are resource-intensive products. Technological advances and rapid changes in demand have led manufacturers to develop their innovative ...