PSS – Page 10 – Product Development Research Lab

Material selection: A qualitative case study of five design consultancies

6th October 2017
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ABSTRACT This qualitative case study aims at understanding when and how industrial designers, working in design consultancies, engage in activities that will influence material selection in the design process. While […]

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The Future of Construction

2nd October 2017
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On Saturday September 30 a diverse team of 27 students from many of BTH’s master programs took on the challenge of innovating the Future of the Construction industry together with Volvo CE’s emerging technologies.

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PDRL organises Special Session at INCOM’18

2nd October 2017
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PDRL and the University of Bergamo organise a Special Session on the topic of Data-Driven Product Service Systems Design (DDPSSD) at INCOM 2018. The session invites both theoretical contributions and […]

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Value-driven simulation: thinking together through simulation in early engineering design

1st September 2017
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ABSTRACT The topic of ‘design for value’ has lately attracted a great deal of attention within the engineering design community. ‘Predicting’ the value of a future solution is however difficult, […]

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Maturity of Models in a Multi-Model Decision Support System

22nd August 2017
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Abstract To reduce uncertainty in decisions, engineers experiment with models, such as, exploring what-if scenarios, and thus increase knowledge. Still, because modelling is an idealisation of reality, there is often […]

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The Volvo CE Trace delivered at Stanford EXPE 2017!

29th June 2017
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As the summer approaches the yearly ME310 project with Stanford University draws to a close. This years’ projects were presented at the d.school on the Stanford campus in the heart of Silicon Valley in California.

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Simulation-driven design for assessing strategic decisions in the conceptual design of circular PSS business models

19th June 2017
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ABSTRACT Due to ever increasing challenges faced by our global society, circular design and the idea of product-service systems (PSS) is gaining traction within businesses. However, ‘predicting’ the value of […]

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Data Mining in Product Service Systems Design: Literature Review and Research Questions

19th June 2017
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ABSTRACT The paper presents a literature review about data mining applications in Product/Service-Systems (PSS) design. A systematic literature review, combined with snowballing techniques, has been run to identify relevant contributions […]

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Product-Service Systems for Functional Offering of Automotive Fixtures: Using Design Automation as Enabler

19th June 2017
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ABSTRACT In production of automotive components, control-measuring is an important activity to assure that geometries meet expected tolerances. This is done via randomly taking parts out of production for control-measuring […]

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BTH PDRL at the 9th CIRP IPSS Conference

12th June 2017
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In their editorial, Tim McAloone, Daniela Pigosso, Niels Henrik Mortensen and Yoshiki Shimomura remind us that the philosophy behind in Industrial Product Service Systems is to create customer-oriented solutions that […]

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