A Matrix Approach to the Customer-oriented Product Design

Ming-Chyuan Lin (1) , Lung-An Chen (1)

1 Department of Industrial Design

A customer-oriented product designer must rely on many types of information, including customer-product requirements and design developments in the related fields. Concurrent engineering applications in product design problems will help designers to systematically consider relevant design information and make the most effective use of the time they devoted to the design process. Even though many new principles and approaches have been introduced to help designers to identify the relationship between customer requirements and design characteristics and solve complex design problems, they seldom focus on the generation of feasible design alternatives. This drawback greatly affects customer-oriented product design development.

Mots clés: matrix approach; customer-oriented product design; relational database system; component design strategy; congruent matrix multiplication operator

Ming-Chyuan Lin, Lung-An Chen. A Matrix Approach to the Customer-oriented Product Design. Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications, 2005, 13 (2), pp.95-109. ⟨10.1177/1063293X05053795⟩. ⟨hal-00571178⟩