About Product Development Research Lab
Latest Events
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Seminar within Smart Industry
Sep 23, 2021 -
Digital Product Development and Simulation
Feb 1, 2021 -
Affordable and sustainable products and services: A frugal innovation approach
Jan 22, 2021 -
PhD Defense: Johan Pilthammar
Sep 22, 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
Data-Driven Design Automation for Product-Service Systems Design: Framework and Lessons Learned from Empirical Studies
Abstract The digitalization era has brought about unprecedented challenges for the manufacturing industries, pushing them to deliver solutions that encompass…
A Solution with Bluetooth Low Energy Technology to Support Oral Healthcare Decisions for improving Oral Hygiene
Abstract The advent of powered toothbrushes and associated mobile health applications provides an opportunity to collect and monitor the data,…
Minimizing the negative effects of coolant channels on the torsional and torsional-axial stiffness of drills
Abstract Coolant channels allow internal coolant delivery to the cutting region and significantly improve drilling, but these channels also reduce…
EVALUATING PROTOTYPING SUPPORT IN EARLY TRANSFORMATIVE PSS DESIGN
Abstract Prototypes are an established tool for rapidly increasing learning, communication and decision making rationale for design projects. The proven…
How Covid-19 Enabled a Global Student Design Team to Achieve Breakthrough Innovation
Abstract A data analysis method based on artificial neural networks aiming to support cause-and-effect analysis in design exploration studies is…
THE RESEARCH DOMAIN OF PRODUCT-SERVICE SYSTEMS AND VOICE OF THE CUSTOMER: A SYSTEMATIC MAPPING
Abstract Product-Service Systems (PSS) have emerged as a key concept to meet the societal and market trends of increasing customer…
Chinese Product-Service System Innovations Enabled via Governmental Policies: The E-Scooter Case
Abstract Together with increasingly saturated and commoditized global markets companies are driven to shift their business focus, adopting a strategy…
Listening to Current Practice: Patient Involvement in the Pharmaceutical Packaging Design Process
Abstract Multiple functional challenges in the use of pharmaceutical packaging reveal a great need of packaging to be designed inclusively.…
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.
