Research

Sustainable shared mobility

On 17 September, Karlskrona Municipality organized the digital conference “Sustainable shared mobility” where the question of how sustainable transport solutions can be a good deal even for smaller cities. Read more about the conference (and see it in its entirety) at https://www.karlskrona.se/mobilitet . Professor Tobias Larsson participated with a lecture; “From fossil to electric; Transformation of infrastructure and vehicles”. Below...

Tobias Larson in the podcast Future Industry

The podcast Future Industry was this week hosted by Professor Tobias Larsson, from Blekinge Institute of Technology. He talks about how those with digital models and simulations early in product development can calculate costs, values and environmental impact for the end product. Find the podcast and more about the research at the link below. Att förutse produkters hållbarhet innan de...

Designing integrated solutions for resource-limited societies

Abstract Poverty is characterized by many different constraints at individual, institutional, economic, and technological levels. To satisfy unmet or underserved needs of people living in poverty, it is essential to address all the relevant constraints in the target context through the design of integrated solutions. Although previous studies in this field have indicated that designing such solutions requires involvement of...

Stanford ME310 project wraps up with EXPE – Online

ReGlove, a circular solution for recycling and remanufacturing Personal Protective Equipment in the form of single-use gloves made from a special form of Polyvinyl alcohol. The solutions consist of machines that are designed to facilitate the loop from cleaning and sterilizing used material to a remanufacturing plant, where the material, in liquid form, is molded into a new glove. By...

The Model-Driven Decision Arena: Augmented Decision-Making for Product-Service Systems Design

Abstract The shift towards Product-Service Systems (PSS) stresses the need to embed new and unique capabilities in Decision Support Systems, with the aim of helping the engineering team in handling the pool of information and knowledge available during decision events. Emerging from a multiple case study in the Swedish manufacturing industry, this paper describes the development of the Model-Driven Decision...

Digital produktutveckling för en hållbar framtid!

Det enda vi har runt oss som inte är medvetet utvecklat är naturen – allt annat är utvecklat av människans hand. Produktutveckling är den medvetna processen att skapa de ting vi använder oss av i vår vardag. Bilar, flygplan, mjölkkartonger, allt är produktutvecklat. Professor Tobias Larsson forskar inom produktutveckling och leder profilen kring modelldriven produkt-tjänsteutveckling vid BTH.

Världen är full av problem som behöver lösas

Jenny Elfsberg valde att studera till ingenjör för att hon är nyfiken helt enkelt. Och nyfikenheten tog henne till drömjobbet som ansvarig för Volvos innovationscentrum i Silicon Valley. – Jag valde att läsa till ingenjör mest för att jag är nyfiken. Jag har alltid ifrågasatt och velat lära mig nya saker, berättar Jenny.