Mätinspiration i innovativa team

Mätinspiration i innovativa team

Research brief published in Management of Technology. Abstract De flesta människor skriver nog under på att devisen ”man får vad man mäter” är sann. Mätning är konkret och genom mätetal sätts mål som sedan följs upp. Mätning skapar handling. Lika sant för företag är att innovation i betydelsen att utveckla och lansera produkter och tjänster som når framgång på marknaden...

CRESCENDO meeting in Derby, UK

CRESCENDO meeting in Derby, UK

On September 8th-10th Tobias Larsson, Marco Bertoni and Alessandro Bertoni attended the fourth EU FP7 CRESCENDO WP2.2 physical meeting hosted by Rolls Royce in Derby, UK.  The meeting has been the occasion to summarize and discuss the latest achievements in the area of Value Driven Design and Value modelling with researchers and industrial experts from Volvo Aero, AIRBUS, Rolls-Royce UK,...

The team from LTU, BTH and UFAM.

Sustainable Innovation in the Amazon

The Division of Functional Product Development recently co-organized a two-day course in Strategic Sustainable Development and two days of workshops on Sustainable Innovation – gathering a total of over 100 participants. The events were held in Manaus, the capital of the state of Amazon, Brazil. As part of an ongoing collaboration between Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) and Universidade Federal...

Measuring innovation capability in technology-focused development

Measuring innovation capability in technology-focused development

Research paper published in Proceedings of the 17th International Product Development Management Conference IPDM. Abstract Product development in the aerospace industry is associated with relatively long lead times and product lifecycles, which means that it takes years and even decades to find out if a novel product or technology concept fully realizes its potential and becomes an innovation on the...

Embracing risk to pursue product innovation in automotive industry

Embracing risk to pursue product innovation in automotive industry

Research paper published in Proceedings of the 17th International Product Development Management Conference IPDM. Abstract A company’s ability to successfully introduce radically new products and services is a key success factor for sustaining competitive advantage. This is particularly true for the automotive industry, where smaller manufacturers with niche products struggle to compete with the large-scale efforts of their bigger competitors,...

DIM project seminar

2010-04: The Interreg IV A Nord research project DIM – Digital Integrated Manufacturing – has today held an open seminar at LTU. The project is a cross regional program that spans over the Northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Sápmi. The three academic partners, Narvik University College, Norway, Centria (a research unit of Central Ostrobothnia Polytechnic), Finland and Luleå...

PSS innovation – Discussing knowledge based tools

PSS innovation – Discussing knowledge based tools

Research paper published in Proceedings of 2nd CIRP IPS2 Conference 2010 – Industrial product-service systems (IPS²). Abstract Product-Service systems (PSS) introduce the alternative for manufacturing firms to address sustainability in early development. In aeronautic industry, sustainability is an issue that challenges the innovation capabilities. The question if engineering tools and software are apt to manage innovation aspects guides the study...

CIRP IPS2 conference in Linköping

CIRP IPS2 conference in Linköping

The international CIRP conference on Integrated Product Service Systems (IPS2) was held in Linköping April 13-17. With some 80 papers and 120 attendees from all over the world it was a key event for the research in product/service systems. The division contributed with 5 scientific papers. The CIRP IPS2 conference introduced a new format for the presentations. There were 5-6...

LTU bidrar till effektivisering av europeisk flygindustri

LTU bidrar till effektivisering av europeisk flygindustri

Den europeiska flygindustrin står inför sin största utmaning någonsin, då nya och hittills oprövade teknologier för ett miljövänligare flyg ska tas fram på ett avsevärt tids- och kostnadseffektivare sätt trots att flygplanens komplexitet ökar radikalt år från år. För att möta denna utmaning deltar Avdelningen för Funktionella produkter vid Luleå tekniska universitet i ett europeiskt forskningsprojekt med totalt 59 partners...