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Integrated Methodology for the Design of Formulated Products Incorporating Consumer Preferences and Heuristic Knowledge
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  • Javier Andrés Arrieta Escobar,
  • Mauricio Camargo,
  • Laure Morel,
  • Fernando Bernardo,
  • Alvaro Orjuela,
  • Laurent Wendling
Javier Andrés Arrieta Escobar
Universite de Lorraine

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Mauricio Camargo
Université de Lorraine Equipe de Recherche des Processus Innovatifs, ERPI-ENSGSI
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Laure Morel
Université de Lorraine
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Fernando Bernardo
University of Coimbra
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Alvaro Orjuela
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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Laurent Wendling
Paris Descartes University University Institute of Technology Paris Descartes
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Abstract

This work proposes a systematic approach for the design of formulated products incorporating consumer assessment and heuristic knowledge. The methodology is divided into two main phases: Consumer assessment and product realization. In the first part, product attributes valued by consumers and their interactions are identified through usability tests performed on a reference product, and fuzzy integral analysis. In the second phase, alternative product formulations are generated using a mixed-integer optimization approach, which incorporates heuristic rules regarding the choice of ingredients and their amounts. The results from the consumer assessment phase are transformed into additional heuristics and incorporated into the design. Using two commercial skin moisturizers as references, different alternative formulations are generated at a lab scale. Those formulations that included additional heuristics are shown to be more similar to the references. As a result, the incorporation of consumer preferences significantly reduced the time and resources spent on the design process.