md3s – Page 14 – Product Development Research Lab

BTH PDRL at the DESIGN’18 conference – awards and more

5th June 2018
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A shiny Dubrovnik welcomed researchers and practitioners to the 15th International DESIGN conference. DESIGN is a biannual event organised by the Design Society, being a main forum to exchange experiences […]

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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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Congratulations Jenny Elfsberg, Licentiate in Engineering!

26th May 2018
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Jenny Elfsberg presented her licentiate thesis “Insert innovation: Strengthening the innovative capability of a large, mature firm”

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Insert innovation: Strengthening the innovative capability of a large, mature firm

25th May 2018
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ABSTRACT Large, mature firms that during many years have operated in stable and predictable business environments tend to have clear, predictable and linear product development processes with well-defined roles and […]

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On knowledge maturity and biased nature of staged decision making in a high consequence industry

25th May 2018
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ABSTRACT This paper explores and problematizes decision-making in a high-consequence industry which is characterized by the stage-gate process. We showcase that decision-makers do not differentiate between the types of knowledge […]

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

25th May 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 […]

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Model Driven Decision Arena: an aerospace study

25th May 2018
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ABSTRACT The concept of Decision Theatre (DT) is of great interest to leverage knowledge sharing in early stage design decision events. Yet, few contributions show how to configure a DT […]

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Model-based decision support for value and sustainability assessment: applying machine learning in aerospace product development

25th May 2018
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ABSTRACT This paper presents a prescriptive approach toward the integration of value and sustainability models in an automated decision support environment enabled by machine learning (ML). The approach allows the […]

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Model-driven value assessment: a case from the food packaging industry

25th May 2018
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ABSTRACT Consumer perception of food packaging solutions is driven by early design decisions on paperboard configuration and manufacturing technologies. Simulation Driven Design is common to frontload design activities, but is […]

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

14th May 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 […]

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