Implications of data-driven product design: From information age towards intelligence age

Data-driven design (D3), a new design paradigm benefited from advanced data analytics and computational intelligence, has gradually promoted the research of data-driven product design (DDPD) ever since 2000 s. In today’s Intelligence Age, some theoretical and practical studies have tried to achieve the advanced intelligence capabilities in DDPD. However, to the authors' best knowledge, there is still a lack of a holistic summary of DDPD with chronological concern in the intelligence age. To bridge the gap, this research undertakes a literature review of DDPD publications from 2000 to date (19/09/2022), of which 172 relevant papers are discussed via bibliometric analysis and state-of-the-art analysis. The results shown that DDPD has vitality in the Intelligence Age by combining the cutting-edge digital technologies, such as AI, additive manufacturing, digital twin, and so on. Moreover, current DDPD studies could outperform the classical design methods on the well-defined tasks, but it still cannot master the creative/innovative design tasks which require the cognitive capability. This survey further highlights several future research potentials including cognitive intelligence-enabled design, end-to-end design integration, advanced design knowledge support, design for additive manufacturing, and sustainable smart product-service systems. It is hoped that this work can be regarded as a reference to understand the roadmap of DDPD and offer insights for the design practitioners to complete relevant tasks in today’s intelligence age.