Yupeng Li

• Doctor of Engineering
• Professor (Associate) at China University of Mining and Technology

Online reviews that contain customer requirements and expectations are valuable for product design opportunity identification (PDOI) in customer-centric design. As most reviews are non-informative and repetitive, the existing approaches may not be effective for PDOI. Besides, online reviews containing design opportunities tend to be the critical mi...

Abstarct Customer requirements (CRs) are the essential driven forces of product development. Constrained by the rigid budget and time allocated to product development, much attentions and resources should be paid on critical customer requirements (CCRs). Product design occurs with an increasingly frenetic pace of change in today’s competitive marke...

Customer requirements are constantly evolving, which will cause high change risks and redesign costs for the products. To control the change risks toward evolving customer requirements, margins are widely used in recent studies. Margins are the redundant values of design parameters, and they can absorb potential change risks of customer requirement...

Due to the development of the e-commerce platform and the internet technology, the inclination of consumers for online shopping is shooting up. To lure consumers and gratify consumers, it’s necessary for enterprise to explore and excavate the purchase intention evolution mechanism so that enterprises can customize the marketing strategies and get c...

In the field of engineering design, design for evolution is an economic and effective tactic to deal with changing customer requirements, in which the quantification of the product evolution degree between adjacent product generations is vital. Under the knowledge economy environment, user knowledge includes personalised experience, which can be us...

Redesign is a widespread strategy for product improvement whose essence is the optimization of design parameters (DPs) considering the trade-off between customer satisfaction and cost concerns. Similar to the relation between customer requirements (CRs) and customer satisfaction, the sensitivity of customer satisfaction is diverse to different DPs....

In product engineering, design changes are unavoidable because of the evolution of customer requirements and key technologies. Modularization has been extensively applied as an effective strategy for the development of complex products. In a modular product, although modules are supposed to be functionally independent, the design change in a module...

The stability and safety of products will be reduced if product structures are vulnerable to failures of key components. Existing methods for improving product structural robustness mainly focus on some key components, but they cannot provide designers with universal and explicit structure optimization strategies. From the viewpoint of product stru...

In the process of product design, design changes are unavoidable due to the diversification of customer requirements and the advancement of key technologies. Although modules are supposed to be functionally independent and “low-coupling” in modular products, the design change in a module can still propagate into other modules due to the interfaces...

Product structural properties are fundamental in product structure optimisation and design. Due to the inevitable evolution of products, product structural properties also change accordingly. Although the evolution of the product structure has been preliminarily investigated, it is mainly analyzed from the viewpoint of commonalities for product gen...

Outlier detection aims to reveal data patterns different from existing data. Benefit from its good robustness and interpretability, the outlier detection method for numerical dataset based on $k$ -Nearest Neighbor ( $k$ -NN) network has attracted much attention in recent years. However, the datasets produced in many practical contexts tend to co...

Owing to the heterogeneity and inherent uncertainty of services, the selection of service suppliers is a complicated multi-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) problem in which fuzzy criteria and stochastic criteria coexist. During the past few decades, many real-world supplier selection problems have been resolved using MAGDM methods. Neverthel...

Under the effects of internal factors and the external environment, some customer requirements can be extremely sensitive to change; these are known as sensitive requirements. These requirements drive the identification and design of the relevant engineering characteristics. This study defines such characteristics as agile engineering characteristi...

Driven by the evolving customer requirements and the advancement of key technologies, design changes broadly exist in the lifecycle of the complex product. And as a popular engineering management strategy, the modularization strategy has been widely applied in the research and development process of complex products. However, most of the existing m...

More and more customers place emphasis on the product obsolescence instead of the product quality, which is driven by changing customer requirements, developing technology and evolving market environments. The product redesign is the prior design strategy to respond to the factors that cause product obsolescence. In this study, the necessary assess...

Multi-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) is a complicated cognitive process that involves evaluation of opinion expression, information fusion, and analysis of multi-source uncertainties. In the incipient stage of MAGDM, decision makers (DMs) express their opinions on alternatives for each attribute and tend to interact with others. Despite th...

Outlier detection is of great importance in industry as unexpected errors or faults, abnormal behaviours or phenomena, etc. can occur due to a variety of human, system, and environmental reasons. To identify and analyse these rare items, events or observations can find either anomalies or novelties and, as a result, can help avoid potential unexpec...

Identifying defective design elements is a prerequisite for design improvements. Previous identification methods were implemented in the context of static customer requirements (CRs). However, CRs always evolve continuously, which easily leads to a failure of existing product functions in fulfilling customer expectations; this, in turn, can lead to...

The evolution of customer requirements and key technologies makes design change unavoidable. Because of the functional and physical relations among parts and components, design change will propagate from one part to another. With the increase in product complexity, design change will always be derived from multiple sources, which is rarely studied,...

Purpose The development of complex products and systems is a continuously iterative process from customer requirements to a mature design. Design changes derived from multisources occur frequently during the design process. Furthermore, change propagation will impose impacts on design costs and lead times. In view of this, how to predict and contro...

Perception of customer requirements and intention is crucial for product redesign where customer reviews play a significant role. Customers dynamically make decision and interact with others, which lead to the evolution of customer reviews. A customer reviews evolution model (CREM) is proposed to analyse the dynamic evolution process of group custo...

The evolution of the product family is the essential driving force for the development of a complex product. Only customer satisfaction is emphasized in the traditional module configuration methods, which is not beneficial for product family evolution that is due to non-customer factors such as the emergence of new technology. In this study, the in...

A warehousing system is critical to enterprises, as a connection between supply and demand in a supply chain. However, an abnormal operation status (AS) may appear in actual production operations, especially in a developing warehousing system. In this study, to identify an AS in a warehousing system, mixed-valued attributes are used to describe the...

Customer requirements are the essential driving force for successful product development. They can be grouped into several categories, including basic requirements, indifferent requirements, reverse requirements, expected requirements, and attractive requirements. Among these, the latter two are crucial for improving customer satisfaction and can b...

As the manufacturing industry moves towards rapid response design, it is essential for manufacturers to upgrade their existing products. Traditionally, design improvement is performed with product failure data. However, there are limitations when dealing with little failure data. Many kinds of research considering product time-varying performance d...

As a cost saving and profit-making strategy, a modular design is being employed in developing complex products and systems (CoPS) in recent decades. At the early stage of design, the reliability of a product can be improved by identifying the influential function modules based on the modular function architecture. In this study, the weighted Leader...

Production efficiency can be greatly improved by using batch processing machines which can process several jobs in parallel. When job processing characteristics are different, job family should be further considered to group jobs properly in a batch. The problem of scheduling non-identical jobs from incompatible job families on a batch processing m...

Product redesign strategy can effectively shorten design lead time and reduce production cost of new variants development. Identification of function components is the basis of product redesign. In the existing methods to identify the function components, customer requirements are primarily considered while the failure knowledge, a critical informa...

As an essential component of a supply chain, warehousing with a high operational management level can significantly enhance the efficiency of manufacturing. Practically, there are many exceptional events (EEs) that impede agile operation in warehousing, and disparate handling processes should be established according to the characteristics of the E...

Large group decision making considering multiple attributes is imperative in many decision areas. The weights of the decision makers (DMs) is difficult to obtain for the large number of DMs. To cope with this issue, an integrated multiple-attributes large group decision making framework is proposed in this article. The fuzziness and hesitation of t...

Modular design is an effective approach to shorten lead-time and reduce cost for development of complex products and systems (CoPS). Because the physical details of the product are not available at the conceptual design stage, considerations in the downstream product development phases such as manufacturing and assembly cannot be used for partition...

Top-down design (TDD) and modular product design (MPD) are two popular design strategies for development of complex products. Although integration of these two design strategies can improve the quality and efficiency for the development of complex products, it is difficult to implement the TDD and MPD strategies simultaneously due to the lack of to...

Batch processing machines can process several job simultaneously and are encountered in many manufacturing environments. Jobs in a batch are processed together and have the same start and end processing time. Since jobs are non-identical in job sizes and job processing times, they should be reasonably scheduled to improve the machine utilisation an...

Concept evaluation is a critical issue in product service system (PSS) development. Due to the inherent uncertainty in design and the significant difference between products and services, PSS concept evaluation is a complicated multicriteria decision-making problem involving hybrid imprecision in which fuzzy information and random factors co-occur....

In order to deal with resource shortage and environmental deterioration, product service system (PSS) are proposed as a sustainable development concept. Careful evaluation in the earlier design stages must be performed before putting a PSS design solution into practice in order to guarantee the sustainability. Due to the reason that sustainability...

This paper aims to develop a decision making approach based on the Information Axiom under hybrid uncertain environments. In these environments fuzziness and randomness co-exist. To model the hybrid uncertainties, the design range and system range of an evaluation criterion are expressed as a fuzzy variable and a random variable respectively. Calcu...

Health prognosis for equipment is considered as a key process of the condition-based maintenance strategy. This paper presents an integrated framework for multi-sensor equipment diagnosis and prognosis based on adaptive hidden semi-Markov model (AHSMM). Unlike hidden semi-Markov model (HSMM), the basic algorithms in an AHSMM are first modified in o...

Process parameter selection is a crucial step for SiNx:H film preparation process by Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) during the fabrication of silicon solar cells. Practically, process parameter selection lacks effective decision-making method and mostly relies on full-experiment-based judgments. Motivated by which, a holistic pro...

The authors of the paper “Applying Platform Design to Improve Product-Service Systems Collaborative Development” on pp. 107-116 of this volume have updated the acknowledgement section. The updated text is: This project is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51475290, Grant No. 51075261), Research Fund for the Doctor...

Modularisation can dramatically shorten the lead time and reduce the cost of the product development. Most of the existing modularisation researches focus on the module partition, which is just the initial stage of an integrated modularisation implementation. With the increasing of the module number, the product design engineers could not obtain th...

The modularisation strategy can dramatically shorten the lead time and reduce the cost of complex products and systems (CoPS) development. Module partition is the basis of the modularisation. Because of the high technical content and multi-dimensional complexity of CoPS, the existing module partition approach cannot identify the module of CoPS effe...

To enable a more optimised process model to effectively support the complex product and system CoPS development, the hierarchical design structure matrix HDSM is refined from the traditional design structure matrix to exhibit the correlative iterations and structure-evolvement within design activities. When implementing a top-down design process, t...

Modularisation strategy can effectively shorten the lead time and reduce the cost of complex products and systems (CoPS) development. A few schemes are usually obtained through module partition because of the multidimensional complexity of CoPS. Unfortunately, research has rarely been conducted on the module partition schemes evaluation (MPSE) that...