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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...

Peter Thor presents licentiate thesis

[20110613] Peter Thor (PhD candidate of Tobias Larsson, and Industrial PhD candidate at Volvo Aero) on June 13 presented his Licentiate thesis “Enabling Engineering Support for the Integrated Products and Service Innovation” in the research subject Functional Product Development. External discussion leader in the seminar was Associate Professor Erik Sundin (Linköping University). Links: Lic thesis: Enabling Engineering Support for the...