Approccio olistico alla selezione dei materiali nel settore industriale professionale

Materials selection heavily influences the product success on the market and represents one of the factors that contribute in pre-evaluating the performance and impact of each component during the life cycle of the product. The research, in collaboration with the Chemistry, Material and Chemical Engineering Department "Giulio Natta" and Electrolux Professional S.p.A., is applied to the field of professional food processing and laundry appliances and has the aim to develop a versatile materials selection method that could help engineers and designers in evaluating quantitative and qualitative properties of materials. The innovative method wants to overcome the limits of the selection methods currently applied in the field, correlating materials technical properties with the sensorial ones (visual, tactile and auditory). The evaluation of user-interaction aspects with the products would highlight which sensorial properties are involved in the user-experience with the materials the components are made of, and how they influence the quality perception of the product.