Prof Larsson guest speaker at PROTEUS research center meeting
Research

Prof Larsson guest speaker at PROTEUS research center meeting

[20110322] PROTEUS – PROduct/service-system Tools for Ensuring User-oriented Service, is an innovation consortium at Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU) with the aim “to enable (before, during and after sales) service delivery to be effectively integrated into product development and business creation in the maritime industry“. The drivers behind the research center is that Danish shipbuilders and manufacturers of marine equipment have...

  • March 23, 2011
Participation in Aviation National Research Agenda addendum work
Press Research

Participation in Aviation National Research Agenda addendum work

[2011-03-17] Professor Tobias C. Larsson has been a member of the core team behind the 2010 release of an Aviation National Research Agenda (NRA Flyg 2010). NRA Flyg 2010 was the result of a unique collaboration where companies, academia and institutes – together with relevant governmental agencies – have aligned themselves with respect to the future of Swedish aeronautical research....

  • March 19, 2011
Product/Service System Extreme Innovation project course…
Education

Product/Service System Extreme Innovation project course…

Within the Master’s programme Sustainable Product/Service System Innovation (MSPI) we’re right now planning the project course PSS Extreme Innovation. We will put heavy focus on bringing in projects with true sustainability, innovation and renewal challenges from our partner companies in order to let our students deploy their skills in such a challenging environment as possible.

  • March 3, 2011
Finalized Project Research

SåNätt – Collaboration as Enabler for Light Weight Vehicles | 2011-2013

Objectives: SÅNÄTT is a collaborative project driven by the common goal of strengthening the competitiveness of the Swedish automotive industry through lightweight innovation. Academics, automotive suppliers and one vehicle manufacturer collaborated in the research and development of design concepts aimed to cost effectively reduce the weight of a classic family saloon by 20-40%. Increase supply chain collaboration to create new products...

  • January 30, 2011
Publication Research

Towards open innovation practices in aerospace industry : challenges and opportunities

Research paper published in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Research into Design, ICoRD’11. Abstract Across industrial settings and environmental conditions, innovation is viewed as a source of advancing firms’ competitive position. Recently, a shift has been witnessed from the traditional innovation model, which mainly focused on internal research and development (R&D) towards open innovation. In this study, we...

  • January 12, 2011
Publication Research

Knowledge Sharing Across Boundaries: Web 2.0 and Product-Service System Development

Research paper published in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Research into Design, ICoRD’11. Abstract In recent years there has been a growing interest among product development organizations to capitalize on engineering knowledge as their core competitive advantage for innovation. Capturing, storing, retrieval, sharing and reusing of engineering knowledge from a wide range of enterprise memory systems have become...

  • January 12, 2011
Publication Research

A case study of how knowledge based engineering tools support experience re-use

Research paper published in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Research into Design. Abstract A manufacturing company’s unique intellectual capital is to a large extent built on experience from its own product development and manufacturing processes. Thus, methods and tools to utilize and benefit from this experience in an efficient way have an impact on a company’s ability to...

  • January 12, 2011
Leveraging cross-functional knowledge for Product-Service System development – a study of a lightweight collaborative approach in a knowledge life cycle perspective
Partners Publication Research

Leveraging cross-functional knowledge for Product-Service System development – a study of a lightweight collaborative approach in a knowledge life cycle perspective

Research paper published in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Research into Design, ICoRD’11. Abstract In recent years there has been a growing interest among product development organizations to capitalize on engineering knowledge as their core competitive advantage for innovation. Capturing, storing, retrieval and sharing of engineering knowledge from a wide range of enterprise memory systems has become crucial...

  • January 12, 2011
Design of user-centred wireless sensor technology in sports – an empirical study of elite kayak athletes
Research

Design of user-centred wireless sensor technology in sports – an empirical study of elite kayak athletes

Research paper published in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Research into Design, ICoRD’11. Abstract University research is demanded to be more need-driven and user- centred in order to address and solve problems and needs of the market. In the present study a group of athletes and coaches has been analysed on their lead user characteristics. Some of the...

  • January 12, 2011
Congrats on your licentiate, Johan!
Education Publication Research

Congrats on your licentiate, Johan!

Starting from today, Johan Wenngren can title himself Licentiate in Engineering in Functional Product Development since he has presented and discussed his licentiate thesis. The title of the thesis is: Teambased Innovation – early problem setting activities in engineering design. Johan is part of the research project ProViking THINK (Teams for Heterogeneous Innovation Knowledge)and he describes different innovation processes in...

  • December 20, 2010