About Product Development Research Lab
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Affordable and sustainable products and services: A frugal innovation approach
Jan 22, 2021 -
PhD Defense: Johan Pilthammar
Sep 22, 2020 -
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Syed Azad Chowdhery Licentiate presentation
Feb 28, 2020
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Research
The ability to effectively deliver new values to the market; innovation, is a challenge on global scale for companies today.
The research at PDRL aims at targeting early development stages of product development by use of a model based engineering approach with simulation at the core.
The research is particularly oriented towards early development, and questions of how to best identify, communicate, utilize, and re-use knowledge about, for example, user needs and product usage, are of high interest together with aspects of team based innovation, value creation and engineering optimisation.
Creating the ability to run simulation driven design of new sustainable solutions by using a model based approach is a key in order to support global product development where sustainable lifecycle solutions; product-service systems is the goal.
The applied research efforts provide new work procedures, methods and tools as well as new insights that support and enable product development improvements for our partners, while the research at the same time is disseminated in the proper academic channels to ensure quality control.
Below are our main research areas within mechanical engineering.
Latest Research Publications
PSS Design Innovation: Prototyping in Practice
Abstract Heavy equipment manufacturers recognise an opportunity to realise customer value gains through offering new Product-Service Systems. Such transition implies…
Data-driven design in concept development: systematic review and missed opportunities
Abstract The paper presents a systematic literature review investigating definitions, uses, and application of data-driven design in the concept development…
Design of Product–Service Systems: Toward an Updated Discourse
Abstract The engineering rationale, composed of established logic for the design and development of products, has been confronted by a…
Evaluation of the content of a web tool aimed to identify early markers related to fall risk among middle-aged people
Abstract Today, the health care sector has no test for early age-related deterioration in physical ability. The aim of this…
Development of a Circularity Impact and Failure Analysis: Obsolescence and Recyclability Integration
Abstract: The application of the Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) has been an established practice in systems engineering and…
Shaping wicked problem solvers: innovating education programs through design thinking
Abstract: Societies across the globe are facing many unprecedented challenges; climate change, pandemics, and resource depletion, just to name a…
The Decision Arena: A model-centric interactive workspace for Product-Service System design
Abstract Design has become an intense ‘social activity’: working with others and sharing a common understanding are of critical importance…
Designing integrated solutions for resource-limited societies
Abstract Poverty is characterized by many different constraints at individual, institutional, economic, and technological levels. To satisfy unmet or underserved…
Research Projects
Research Partners
Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals are a call for action by all countries – poor, rich and middle-income – to promote prosperity while protecting the planet. We contribute to the below goals, where #9 and #12 are our high impact goals. Here is our breakdown of the PDRL contributions.
