Christian Johansson – Page 4 – Product Development Research Lab

Introductory study of sheet metal forming simulations to evaluate process robustness

29th June 2018
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ABSTRACT The ability to control quality of a part is gaining increased importance with desires to achieve zero-defect manufacturing. Two significant factors affecting process robustness in production of deep drawn […]

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Global Roll-out of Volvo CE Advance at Stanford University

27th June 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.

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Design Thinking 2018

6th June 2018
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This year’s iteration of the Design Thinking course (MT2547) has completed with a Design Expo at BTH where the students presented and demonstrated their results to other student peers, teaching […]

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Ryan, the culture coach shares his views on the global project

2nd June 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.

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Martin Frank driving the Volvo CE Excavator

The view of a corporate liaison in a global innovation team

31st May 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.

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Stanford ME310 on final stretch

30th May 2018
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This year’s Stanford project, ME310, where four students from BTH have collaborated with three students from Stanford University, is in its final stage.

Now, the students will travel to Stanford to complete and present the project at the annual event Stanford EXPE (expe.stanford.edu) in front of teachers, companies and venture capitalists in the heart of Silicon Valley.

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BTH-forskare i Kina för att diskutera hållbar produktion

24th April 2018
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En delegation bestående av forskare från bland annat BTH, Lunds universitet, Swerea IVF, Tetra Pak och Volvo Cars har diskuterat hållbar materialformning och dess tillämpningar inom bil- och förpackningsindustrin vid ett veckolångt besök i Kina. Symposiet arrangerades av BTH, Shanghai Polytechnic University och Kunming University of Science and Technology.

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ME310 team colocate in Sweden for kick-down towards final solution

6th April 2018
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The ME-310 project, with students from BTH and Stanford University working on supporting Volvo CE innovate the pains of today’s and concerns of tomorrow’s construction workers, is moving into the final phase where the students will deliver an innovation in time for the final event in June.

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Innovativ och Hållbar Produktutveckling i mål

16th January 2018
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Tisdag 16 januari presenterade studenterna i årskurs 3 på maskinteknikprogrammen resultaten av sina produktutvecklingsprojekt genomförda i samverkan med olika industripartners. Eventet organiserades i form av en mässa där studenterna demonstrerade prototyper […]

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Extreme Product-Service Innovation 2017/18 completed

11th January 2018
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In the Extreme PSS Innovation course, students from BTH’s masters programmes in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Management and Engineering, and Sustainable Product-Service System Innovation (MSPI) are given challenges from real industrial companies to solve. The course is a central part of BTH’s mantra “In Real Life”.

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