Blog – Product Development Research Lab

Sustainable and affordable products and services: A frugal innovation approach

1st December 2020
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A workshop on frugal innovation. Frugal innovations aim at doing more and better with less. It can be a low-tech clay fridge or a high-tech portable ultrasound medical device.

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Studenter prisade av Sparbanksstiftelsen Kronan

29th November 2020
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På den årliga stipendieutdelningen från Sparbanksstiftelsen Kronan (i år online pga pandemin) fick fyra examensarbeten från BTH Maskinteknik priser. 100.000 kr Johan Olsson och Axel Sjöberg (civilingenjör) för arbetet “In-house glove recycling: Eliminating a waste stream with a circular approach“. Handledare vid BTH Maskinteknik var Christian Johansson. Johan Olsson och Axel Sjöberg (civilingenjör) för arbetet […]

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PSS Design Innovation: Prototyping in Practice

13th November 2020
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PSS Design Innovation: Prototyping in Practice

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Data-driven design in concept development: systematic review and missed opportunities

12th November 2020
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Abstract The paper presents a systematic literature review investigating definitions, uses, and application of data-driven design in the concept development process. The analysis shows a predominance of the use of text mining techniques on social media and online reviews to identify customers’ needs, not exploiting the opportunity granted by the increased accessibility of IoT in cyber-physical systems. […]

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Forskare ska stötta produktutvecklare i mikroföretag i Tanzania

12th November 2020
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Forskare från BTH ska studera hur människor i Tanzania arbetar med design och utveckling med syftet att öka deras förmåga att designa mer framgångsrika produkter. Projektet stöttas av Vetenskapsrådet och syftar till att stödja mikroföretag i utvecklingsländer.

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Design of Product–Service Systems: Toward an Updated Discourse

11th November 2020
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Abstract The engineering rationale, composed of established logic for the design and development of products, has been confronted by a shift to a circular economy. Digitalization (e.g., Industry 4.0) enables transformation, but it also increases relational complexities in scope and number. In Product–Service Systems (PSSs), the combination of manufactured goods and services should be delivered […]

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BTH PDRL at the DESIGN’20 online conference

9th November 2020
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The pandemic situation put an effective hold on the physical venue in Dubrovnik where the 16th International DESIGN conference was planned before the summer. Now the biannual DESIGN event organised by the Design Society were forced into an online version instead. Being a main forum to exchange experiences and lessons learned about engineering design from […]

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Investigation of the Product Design Process in Informal Microenterprises in Tanzania | 2021-

3rd November 2020
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Investigation of the Product Design Process in Informal Microenterprises in Tanzania

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PREDICT | 2020-

28th October 2020
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The purpose of PREDICT is to achieve increased accuracy in failure predictions by developing advanced material models, calibration techniques and effective finite element simulations, which can enable unambiguous and reliable formability predictions. Specially, simulation failure predictions of phenomena such as non-linear strain paths, effect of strain rate, anisotropy and presence of edge cracks will be […]

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Nya arbetssätt ska stärka svensk fordonsindustri

28th October 2020
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BTH får drygt 6,5 miljoner kronor av Vinnova för arbetet att förutse och förhindra sprickor som uppstår vid plåtformning

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