Monthly Archives: March 2020

Using models as boundary objects in early design negotiations: analysis and implications for decision support systems

Abstract One common strategy to include more downstream lifecycle dimensions in early design is to enrich modelling and simulation techniques embedded in decision support systems. However, downstream dimensions are difficult to trade against more traditional engineering objectives. This research studied through individual interviews how six disciplines use models to negotiate design trade-offs. References to models […]

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Value models: coordinating artefacts for conceptual design

Abstract This paper contributes to the discussion on value models as decision support in early design. Emerging from data collected through semi-structured interviews with 20 professionals in 3 manufacturing companies, the paper highlights the limitation of current development practices to promote cross-functional knowledge sharing about the stakeholders’ lifecycle expectations to be met. This limits the […]

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Special Issue “Model-Based Systems Engineering and Product Service Systems Design”

Dr Alessandro Bertoni togehter with Dr Massimo Panarotto (PDRL Alumni, now Chalmers) are guest editors of the MDPI Systems Journal Special Issue “Model-Based Systems Engineering and Product Service Systems Design“. This Special Issue particularly looks forward to articles presenting, among others: New methods for MBSE in PSS design; Empirical studies on MBSE implementation in an […]

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Marco to head global special interest group in Product-Service Systems research!

The Design Society is an interdisciplinary community of academics and industry practitioners with the goal of developing and promoting a robust, usable and scalable means of designing complex solutions that a sustainable and globalised society needs to thrive, in the 21st century. Within the DS, the PDRL researchers Marco Bertoni and Tobias Larsson, are now the […]

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Produktutvecklingsforskningen med på IVA’s 100-lista 2020!

Professor Tobias Larsson och teamet kring forskningsprofilen Model Driven Development and Decision Support är med på Kungl Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien, IVA’s 100-lista för 2020! Forskningsprojekten på listan bedöms ha potential att utvecklas till innovationer, affärsutveckling eller annan form av nytta. Med på listan är även Sophie Hallstedt med den forskning inom profilen som är riktad mot Hållbarhetsdriven […]

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PSS Design for the World’s Large Market

Businesses are recognising and pursuing the opportunity to design appropriate products and services to serve the market known as the Base of the Pyramid (BOP) market — broadly defined as 4 billion low-income people in developing countries. There are many reasons for the pursuit of BOP markets. First, the BOP is the most significant and […]

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