Structure means the way which things are built up. A composite product does not exhibit one structure, but hides in its structure of parts several different structuring principles, which fit the production, service, transport etc. Structuring of product models is complex where many factors are influencing. This paper identifies four factors that are influencing the structure of a product model:...

to study art, sociologists have so far related it either to the economic base of the artistic product or to the artist's ideology or world-view or the class structure of the audience and art consumers. the importance of none of these factors could be denied; however, what is more important is the relation between these factors, the complex network of political, economic and social relations tha...

In his pioneering work on product and process improvement, Taguchi (1986) emphasizes two types of factors that effect product quality: “control factors” are those variables that can be (easily) manipulated by the manufacturer and “noise factors” are those variables that represent either different environmental conditions that affect the performance of a product in the field or (uncontrollable) ...