Customer Evaluation and Selection Method of Real-Time Innovative Design Based on the Network

Abstract:

In the early stages of the design process, the conceptual design is the stage that can determine the product cost up to 80% on average. In this stage, there are more than one product concept program to choose from. However, to make a concept prototype, and to survey a sufficient number of consumers need, a lot of time and cost need to be spent. In order to solve the above problems, this paper introduces a real-time innovative design of the network-based customer evaluation and selection methods. This method makes full use of the internet and information technology which is able to quickly transport consumer demand to the conceptual scheme at a lower cost and by calculating the extent of consumer preferences on a variety of conceptual design schemes in a short period time allow consume make their decision on a real-time basis during the design phase.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 605-607)
• Pages: 380-383
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.605-607.380
• Online since: December 2012
• Authors: Jian She Luo, Bang Guo Wang, Xiao Li Wang, Hong Cheng
• Keywords: Conceptual Design, Customer Evaluation, Innovative Design

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