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Raising Value and Sustainability awareness for critical materials: a serious game for the aerospace sector

Abstract Aviation strives today to include environmental and social considerations as drivers for decision making in design. This paper proposes a serious game to raise awareness of the value and cost implications of being ‘sustainability compliant’ when developing aerospace sub-systems and components. After describing the development of the game, from needfinding to prototyping and testing, […]

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Model Driven Decision Arena: an aerospace study

ABSTRACT The concept of Decision Theatre (DT) is of great interest to leverage knowledge sharing in early stage design decision events. Yet, few contributions show how to configure a DT to support design space exploration and concept selection in cross-functional teams. This paper describes the development of a model-driven decision arena (MDDA) for aero-engine sub-system […]

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Introducing Sustainability in Value Models to Support Design Decision Making: A Systematic Review

ABSTRACT Manufacturing organizations shall recognize sustainability as a business occasion to capitalize on, rather than an undesirable pressing situation. Still, empirical evidence shows that this opportunity is hard to capture and communicate in global strategic decisions, through planning by tactical management, to daily operational activities. This paper systematically reviews the modeling challenges at the crossroad […]

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PDRL at the 8th CIRP IPS2 Conference

The 8th CIRP IPS2 conference will kick-off this weekend with a Welcome reception at Chiostro Santa Marta, in the beautiful city of Bergamo, in Northern Italy CIRP IPS2 is a major yearly event for PDRL. The conference gathers researchers worldwide to share theoretical and practical experiences showing that transition towards Industrial Product-Service System. The conference this year is […]

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Value Innovation projects 2015

On Oct. 19th and 20th students in the MT2536 Value Innovation course had the opportunity to present the results of their real-life projects, conducted in collaboration with industrial partners and organizations. All projects have the objective to develop innovative products/services able to create value for their customers and users, while at the same time reducing […]

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Extreme Product-Service Innovation 2014/15 completed

On January 14 2015, students in the MT2534 PSS Extreme Innovation (PSSEI) course presented the outcome of this year’s innovation projects. Students from the Master’s programs in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Economy and Management as well as the Master’s program in Sustainable Product-Service System Innovation (MSPI) have teamed up to work on real projects provided […]

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