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Hardware is developed to meet design specifications. But it deteriorates once it is realized as a final product and is delivered to the customer. The operating conditions of customers are diversifying very quickly and extensively so that products that meet design specifications alone do not satisfy them. They want products that operate best in their own conditions. To provide such a best fit product, control of degradation becomes important. Up to now, degradation has been considered only undesirable and how we can prevent it was our primary focus. But as the operating conditions vary from user to user and from time to time, we have to reconsider degradation as a way to fit the products to our users so that we have to control degradation to provide users with best fit conditions in order for them to enjoy using our products as long as possible.
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Fukuda, S. (2015). Best Fit Product. In: Fukuda, S. (eds) Emotional Engineering (Vol. 3). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11555-9_3
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