Project Research

CASTT – Centre for Automotive Systems Technologies and Testing | 2005-2010

Centre for Automotive Systems Technologies and Testing 2005-2010 (finalized) PROJECT SUMMARY Through the Center for Automotive Systems Technologies and Testing, Luleå University of Technology aims to first of all support automotive winter testing in Northern Sweden. This means to support the local automotive test entrepreneurs and through them their customers: the car manufacturers and their suppliers. To succeed in this...

  • September 30, 2005
Project Research

NeedInn – Need Centered Product Innovation within E-health | 2005-2007

EC Regional Programme for Innovative Actions 2005-2007 (finalized) PROJECT SUMMARY Needfinding and innovation are the keywords of NeedInn. The goal for NeedInn is to create a method, a working process, which contributes to a need centered product development process within e-health. To make this happen we need to develop a way to find the needs and to make them more...

  • January 30, 2005
Time-location matrix
Innovation

Online collaborative workspaces

This project for Designtech concerned a study of online collaborative workspaces. With online collaboration emerging as a key activity for companies and organizations working on a global arena, there are rapidly increasing demands for services that efficiently support collaboration in globally distributed teams. While making online collaboration a success is not an entirely new endeavor, it is probably a more...

  • October 11, 2004
Project Research

VIVACE – Value Improvement through a Virtual Aeronautical Collaborative Enterprise | 2004-2007

Value Improvement through a Virtual Aeronautical Collaborative Enterprise. An EU FP6 Integrated Project. 2004-2007 (finalized) PROJECT SUMMARY VIVACE is an Aeronautical Collaborative Design Environment with associated Processes, Models and Methods. This environment will help to design an aircraft and its engines as a whole, providing to the aeronautics supply chain in an extended enterprise, virtual products with all requested functionality...

  • September 30, 2004
Project Research

Design for Wellbeing | 2004-

Innovations meet people. Design for Wellbeing redirects the focus of product development from technology-based development, via needs-based development, to participative product innovation. 2004- (ongoing) PROJECT SUMMARY The main objective of the Design for Wellbeing initiative is to enhance the wellbeing of persons with motion, sensory and cognitive disabilities by using their descriptions of needs in relation to assistive devices as...

  • May 14, 2004
Design för välbefinnande
Education News Press

Design för välbefinnande

Innovationer för människor – det är vad projektet ”Design för välbefinnande” vid Luleå tekniska universitet går ut på. Om människors behov fångas och tas tillvara väl kan tekniken hjälpa oss att må bättre, och det är denna grundsyn som vägleder elva av studenterna i årets upplaga av kursen SIRIUS – Kreativ produktutveckling. Tillsammans med studenter från Stanford University i Kalifornien...

  • March 26, 2004
Innovation

Siemens-Elema X-ray

For Siemens-Elema, a seminar was put together to demonstrate possibilities with modeling and simulation to improve the product development. The seminar will demonstrate the potential of simulation in product development process. It offers a view of what can be done with computational tools in the current situation, highlighting the ways and methodsand to demonstrate trends in the field. The seminar focuses on the finite element analysis and dynamic analysis, but affects the development process as a whole, such as modeling, visualization and team-based work. It is thus part of the work on the...

  • October 11, 2003
Project Research

ProViking I – Development of Functional Products in a Distributed Virtual Environment | 2003-2006

Foundation for Strategic Research via the ProViking research programme. 2003-2006 (finalized) PROJECT SUMMARY This research programme proposes to investigate the development of Functional Products, the development of integration between hardware, software and service. The research will be carried out in close collaboration with industry and in four work packages, all focused on the development of Functional Products but targeting different...

  • September 30, 2003
Project Research

Functional Jet Engine Components | 2003-2007

National Aviation Engineering Research Programme Project: NFFP490 – Functional Jet Engine Components 2003-2007 (finalized) PROJECT SUMMARY When selling a product today it contains much more than just hardware. Without a service part the product would be of no value for the customer. To be able to evaluate and choose the best concept the overall package need to be reconsidered. The...

  • September 30, 2003
Innovation

Kalix raceway velodrome

This project concerned the creation of a velodrome curve for the Kalix raceway coming up to their Swedish championship hosting. The task involved mapping the existing raceway track geometry, performing the necessary math and dynamics calculations to enable an interesting, and unique driving experience during a race. A web bases simulation model was setup to allow for easy calculation of...

  • October 11, 2002