PSS Design for the World’s Large Market
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Businesses are recognising and pursuing the opportunity to design appropriate products and services to serve the market known as the…
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This Knowledge Foundation (KKS) profile+ center is based on a clear vision and objective regarding model driven development and decision support for sustainable product-service system (PSS) innovation and is building on the further deepening of the ongoing profile work with perspectives of raising international recognition through further presence in top publications, partnering with academics internationally, and also affecting educational programmes at BTH.
The ongoing digitalisation is an already integrated part of the work, while the profile+ is extending the Data Driven Design approach based on Internet of Things (IoT) progress and access to live data from solutions in the field and the usage of machine learning/AI in development and industry 4.0 approaches in production .
The research focus is model-driven sustainable product-service system innovation. The concept of model-driven means that throughout the development process using models (virtual representation of reality) as communication media in order to shorten development cycles and improve multidisciplinary understanding. By also adding capability to collect live data from machines via connected sensors (Internet of Things – IOT) and finding patterns and solutions using big data analytics (including AI and Machine Learning) creating the potential for digital twin approach, the aim is to increase the profiling in this research even further.
An internationally leading research environment and the first-hand choice of partners who want to lead the way to a sustainable society through competitive product-service systems supporting a circular economy.
In co-production mode develop, disseminate, and integrate relevant, user-friendly and efficient computer aided support methods and tools for sustainable product-service system innovation into business leaders’, business developers’ and product developers’ working environments that enable industry to thrive in the changing global context, supported by both simulated and real data using internet of things and AI/machine learning.
How can we design a simulation, and data, driven PSS process where societal challenges are used as a driver for innovation, and methods and tools from diverse disciplines (engineering, sustainability, economics etc.) are linked in a decision environment, enabling value creating life-cycle solutions?
Project leader & Centre Director: Prof Tobias Larsson
Time span: 2013-2019 Profile, 2019-2022 Profile+
Funding: 163 MSEK (110 budget and 36 MSEK KK Foundation profile funds, 53 budget and 18 MSEK KK Foundation profile+ funds)
Partners:
The industrial relevance is threefold:
The driving research question is broken down into several sub-questions that are being dealt with in the research tracks of MD3S+ as presented below.
(mechanical engineering, innovation engineering)
(sustainable development, mechanical engineering)
(mechanical engineering, data science, electrical engineering)
Abstract This paper presents an explorative study and the results of 17 interviews with informants from different companies. Its purpose…
Abstract Recent economic transformations have forced companies to redefine their value propositions, increasing traditional product offerings with supplementary services— the…
Abstract People living in low-resource settings at the base of the world income pyramid (i.e. Base of the Pyramid —…
Abstract The current and future challenges of sustainable development require a massive transformation of habits and behaviors in the whole…
Abstract Since its introduction in 2011, industry 4.0 has been coined the“4th industrial revolution” following mechanization, industrialization and IT/automation as…
Abstract Ability to predict and control involved parameters and hence the outcome of sheet metal forming processes demand holistic knowledge…
Abstract Heavy equipment manufacturers recognise an opportunity to realise customer value gains through offering new Product-Service Systems. Such transition implies…
Abstract The paper presents a systematic literature review investigating definitions, uses, and application of data-driven design in the concept development…
Abstract The engineering rationale, composed of established logic for the design and development of products, has been confronted by a…