Design of Maternity Pillow by Using Kansei and Taguchi Methods

5th International Conference on Manufacturing, Optimization, Industrial and Material Engineering

Rahmillah, Fety Ilma^1 ; Kartika, Rachmah Nanda^1

Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Industrial Technology, Islamic University of Indonesia, Jl. Kaliurang Km 14.5, Yogyakarta, Indonesia^1

关键词: Kansei;    Maternity Pillow;    Optimal design;    Orthogonal array;    Pregnant woman;    Sleep quality;    U shape;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/215/1/012043/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/215/1/012043

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

One of the customers' considerations for purchasing a product is it can satisfy their feeling and emotion. It because of such product can enhance sleep quality of pregnant women. However, most of the existing product such as maternity pillows are still designed based on companies' perspective. This study aims to capture the desire of pregnant women toward maternity pillow desired product by using kansei words and analyze the optimal design with Taguchi method. Eight collected kansei words were durable, aesthetic, comfort, portable, simple, multifunction, attractive motive, and easy to maintain. While L16 orthogonal array is used because there are three variables with two levels and four variables with four levels. It can be concluded that the best maternity pillow that can satisfy the customers can be designed by combining D1-E2-F2-G2-C1-B2-A2 means the model is U shape, flowery motive, medium color, Bag model B, cotton pillow cover, filled with silicon, and use double zipper. However, it is also possible to create combination of D1-E2-F2-G2-C1-B1-A1 by using consideration of cost which means that the zipper is switched to single as well as filled with dacron. In addition, the total percentage of contribution by using ANOVA reaches 95%.