Customer feedback gathering and management tools for product-service system design

Abstract

Modern manufacturing industries are being shifted towards a new business model where low cost and high customer value solutions should be designed and provided. The use of advanced technology and mobile applications will support companies to approach customers, and extract and analyze their opinion. Towards that, this research work presents tools for customers’ feedback gathering and management to support efficient and accurate product and service designs. Mobile applications for customer feedback gathering on products and services and an importance-satisfaction analysis based on modular design approach are proposed. The tools are validated in a real case study from the robotics industry.