tobias larsson Archives - Product Development Research Lab

Global Roll-out of Volvo CE Advance at Stanford University

2:08PM Jun 27, 2018
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Supporting the construction workers of both current and future construction sites has been the topic of the global product development challenge posed to seven final-year MSc students from BTH and Stanford University. In their capstone project ME310, which runs from November to June, they move through phases of needfinding, ideation, prototytping and more to arrive at a final detail designed product to display at the final exhibition, EXPE, at Stanford University.

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“ […]

Data Mining through Early Experience Prototyping: A step towards Data Driven Product Service System Design

8:19AM Jun 13, 2018
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ABSTRACT The construction industry is ripe for disruption through innovative solutions that provide added productivity. Equipment manufacturers are attempting to disrupt their industry with investments in autonomy, electrification and product-service system business models. Designing solutions that will operate in completely new systems or modify an existing complex system require new approaches to address the uncertainty […]

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.

Design and Frugal Innovations: Three roles of resource-poor people

7:58AM May 25, 2018
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ABSTRACT Design is imperative to satisfy needs of people in resource-limited societies. Many design studies have been carried out in the context of such societies in developing countries, and are discussed under names such as humanitarian engineering, frugal innovations, appropriate technology, design at the Base of the Pyramid, design for development, etc. In this paper, […]

A model-driven decision arena: Augmenting decision making in early design

8:08AM May 14, 2018
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ABSTRACT A wide variety of expert competencies, transcending traditional disciplines, are needed to foresee and evaluate the impact of decisions in the conceptual phase of engineering design. Where this previously was a trade-off regarding design and development of the pure physical artefact it is now a complex ambiguity game involving all disciplines touching a solution […]

Öppet Hus på BTH

11:55AM Apr 08, 2018
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Under lördagen hade BTH öppet hus för att intresserade skulle få inblick i vilka studiealternativ som finns samt hur utbildningen är upplagd, samverkan med näringsliv och vilka labb-resurser mm som finns. Makerspacet hade öppet under dagen för att besökare skulle få se och känna på tekniken som våra studenter har access till.

National PhD course in product development modeling and simulation

10:24AM Mar 12, 2018
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During two days some 25 people gathered at BTH campus and Product Development Research Lab to take part in session #2 of the National PhD course “Modeling Simulation and Optimization in the Engineering Product Development Process”.