The Open Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Journal

2009, 2 : 21-25
Published online 2009 September 04. DOI: 10.2174/1874152500902010021
Publisher ID: TOIMEJ-2-21

Intelligence Design Concept Method Utilizing Customer Science

Yamaji Manabu and Amasaka Kakuro
the Aoyama Gakuin University, 5-10-1 Fuchinobe, Sagamihara-shi, Kanagawa-ken, 229-8558 Japan;

ABSTRACT

The authors will deploy the “scientific approach to customers’ tastes” by means of “Customer Science” aiming to achieve “Intelligence Design Concept Method.” This model means implementing Customer Science for turning the design process into an explicit knowledge as more creative activities from the implicit knowledge of designing utilizing statistical science. As an example of the application of this research, the authors applied this model to the product design process and obtained the results shown.

Keywords:

Customer Science, Automobile, CS-IDCM.