Hägglunds Drives

Expanding the social dimension: Towards a knowledge base for product-service innovation

Research paper published in Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design. Abstract The extension of businesses to incorporate the provision of function as a service in supplement to standalone products is an ongoing movement in manufacturing industry. In short, this means that the development intent should be guided by the need of ‘performance in use’ that the customer...

Koteshwar Chirumalla presents licentiate thesis

[20110620] Koteshwar Chirumalla (PhD candidate of Tobias Larsson) on June 20 presented his Licentiate thesis “A Lightweight Knowledge Sharing Approach for Product-Service Systems Development” in the research subject Functional Product Development. External discussion leader in the seminar was Technology Development Director Jonas Rosen, PhD (Eurostep AB). Links: Lic thesis: A Lightweight Knowledge Sharing Approach for Product-Service Systems Development Research project: Faste Laboratory...

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...

Hydraulic engine analysis

This project was performed together with Hägglunds Drives AB in Mellansel, Örnsköldsvik, and concerned dynamic analysis of their hydraulic engine designs. The motive was to find maximum forces between rollers and cam and if at any time a contact loss appeared.