Perceived quality is one of the most critical aspects of product development that defines the
successful design. This paper presents a new approach to perceived quality assessment by …

Due to the tightening of requirements and the increasing complexity of products, robust
design becomes more and more important in the context of a straightforward product …

Abstract Industry 4.0, the fourth industrial revolution, puts forward new requirements for the
sustainable service of products. With the recent advances in measurement technologies …

Featured Application This paper emphasizes the important role of early robust design for
optimal parameter and tolerance design. The theoretically discussed effects on parameter …

Technological advances as well as novel manufacturing and design paradigms, such as
industry 4.0 and digitalization, offer new opportunities for innovative products. However, they …

The formal representation and capturing of uncertainty knowledge are always essential but
difficult. Typically, the uncertainties due to incompleteness and inaccuracies of model …

If designers want to communicate quality aspects of the product, there is a need to bring
these characteristics into the measurable space of perceived quality (PQ) attributes. To …

Well known, perceived quality is a game-changer in consumers' decision-making processes
and is seen as one key predictor of a product's and company's success. Today, the …

Perceived quality refers to customers' cognitive and emotional responses to a particular
design, often also associated with craftsmanship and customer satisfaction. Previous …

Variation management is a responsible task for product developers, which have to balance
the ever-increasing quality demands and cost pressures, while considering the product …