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Högpresterande innovationsteam – Ny bok från Mikael Johnsson

8:19PM Jun 27, 2018
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Vi tar ett snack med Mikael Johnsson, PhD, och en kille som förutom uppfinnare, forskare, problemlösare mm även har förmågan att omvandla sin forskning till praktiskt tillämpbar kunskap i bokform. Boken “Högpresterande innovationsteam” (Liber) finns nu att beställa och bygger på Mikaels erfarenheter och forskning. Releaseparty har gått av stapeln på forskningslabbet och vi säger […]

Designing Product Service Systems in the digital era: a BTH PDRL Special Session at the INCOM 2018 conference

1:33PM Jun 14, 2018
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More than 100 billion objects are expected to be connected by 2020 in the Internet of Things. This unprecedented opportunity to record and collect data about how we use a product (or experience a service) is main item in today’s design research agenda. “Data-driven Product Service System design” was the topic of the “Special Session“ […]

Autonomy on-demand! Autonomous testing of human-driven compaction roller

11:33AM Jun 12, 2018
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Can we transform a compaction roller to become temporary autonomous for executing a specific task? And can we do it in a cheap and flexible way? That´s the challenge that Jojje Sundblad and Sebastian Tuma Fischer, master thesis students in Mechanical Engineering at BTH, have faced in collaboration with our research partner Dynapac. Endurance tests […]

Call for papers: Special Issue on “User Experience and Agile Innovation: A Future of Servitisation”

1:55PM Jun 08, 2018
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Assistant Prof. Christian Johansson Askling and Associate Prof. Andreas Larsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, together with Prof. Åsa Ericson and Dr. Johan Lugnet, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, are guest editors for a special issue of the International Journal of Product Development. The purpose of this special issue is to explore the ways in which […]

Projektkursen gav utdelning för både studenter och företag

2:17PM Jun 05, 2018
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Under läsåret 2017/2018 har en grupp maskinstudenter på BTH, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, utfört ett projektarbete med företaget BRODD Automation, ett samarbete som gett mersmak för både studenter och företag.

BTH PDRL at the DESIGN’18 conference – awards and more

9:38AM Jun 05, 2018
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A shiny Dubrovnik welcomed researchers and practitioners to the 15th International DESIGN conference. DESIGN is a biannual event organised by the Design Society, being a main forum to exchange experiences and lessons learned about engineering design from a variety of perspectives, disciplines, and fields. BTH PDRL received one of the 3 ‘outstanding contributions’ awards for […]

Ryan, the culture coach shares his views on the global project

7:41AM Jun 02, 2018
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Ryan Ruvald is the culture coach in the Stanford ME310 project. In this short interview, Ryan talks of his role and experiences working with the ME310-project.

Martin Frank driving the Volvo CE Excavator

The view of a corporate liaison in a global innovation team

7:45AM May 31, 2018
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Martin Frank is the corporate liaison with Volvo Construction Equipment in the Stanford ME310 project. Here follows an interview with Martin, where he talks of his role and experiences from working with the global collaborative innovation project.

Stanford ME310 on final stretch

8:53AM May 30, 2018
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This year’s Stanford project, ME310, where four students from BTH have collaborated with three students from Stanford University, is in its final stage.

Now, the students will travel to Stanford to complete and present the project at the annual event Stanford EXPE (expe.stanford.edu) in front of teachers, companies and venture capitalists in the heart of Silicon Valley.