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 […]
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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.
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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.
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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. Sharing
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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”.
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After being Dean for the Faculty of Engineering for the past four years, I’m now as of December 31 leaving that position.
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Under två dagar samlades industri och akademi till Techtank Conference 2017 på Volvo Cars i Olofström. Under två dagar presenterade föreläsare från industri och akademi olika aspekter och exempel på utveckling av industriella produkter och tillverkningsmetoder i högpresterande material. Sharing
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In mid-November the Swedish team from BTH traveled to Stanford for the global project kick-off. During this week the team created their first Critical Experience Prototype.
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