# Product optimization

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**Production optimization** is the practice of making changes or adjustments to a product to make it more desirable.[1]

## Description

A product has a number of attributes. For example, a soda bottle can have different packaging variations, flavors, nutritional values. It is possible to optimize a product by making minor adjustments. Typically, the goal is to make the product more desirable and to increase marketing metrics such as Purchase Intent, Believability, Frequency of Purchase, etc.

## Methods

Main article: [Design Optimization](/source/Design_Optimization)

Multivariate optimization is one of the most common methods for product optimization. In this method, multiple product attributes are specified and then tested with consumers.

Due to complex interaction effects between different attributes (for example, consumers frequently associate certain flavors with packaging colors), it is problematic to use mathematical methods, such as Conjoint Analysis, typically used in industrial process optimization.

More recently companies started to adopt Evolutionary Optimization techniques for Product optimization. Evolutionary algorithms (such as [IDDEA](/source/IDDEA)) are used to optimize products, concepts and messaging.

## References

1. Rasmussen, Svend (2013). *Production Economics: The Basic Theory of Production Optimisation*. Springer Texts in Business and Economics. 2nd ed. 2013 ed. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-30200-8.

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