PSS – Page 9 – Product Development Research Lab

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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Introducing Sustainability in Value Models to Support Design Decision Making: A Systematic Review

16th January 2018
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ABSTRACT Manufacturing organizations shall recognize sustainability as a business occasion to capitalize on, rather than an undesirable pressing situation. Still, empirical evidence shows that this opportunity is hard to capture […]

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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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A systematic review of value metrics for PSS design

24th November 2017
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ABSTRACT The notion of ‘value’ has become pivotal in the PSS domain, with a plethora of ‘indicators’, ‘drivers’ and ‘measurements’ proposed to guide the assessment of PSS concepts across the […]

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An IPA based method for PSS design concept assessment

24th November 2017
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ABSTRACT Literature and field study research highlight that transiting toward PSS means for many companies to either miss interesting business opportunities or to bet on the wrong solution concept. Early […]

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Value Innovation projects 2017

16th November 2017
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Value Innovation is a course in the Master programme that gives students in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Economy the opportunity to experience the development of new products and services “in […]

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Frugal Innovation for global sustainable development

14th November 2017
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‘Frugal’ means making things simpler, in such a way that they are adapted to the local circumstances, or adapted to a resource constrained environment. Frugal innovations can be placed on […]

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Solving the pains of today and the concerns of tomorrow with Volvo CE and Stanford University

10th November 2017
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The Product Development Research Lab at BTH are for the sixth year starting up a ME310 project in collaboration with the Design Division at Stanford University. As with the last […]

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Welcome as PhD candidate Ryan Ruvald!

3rd November 2017
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Ryan Ruvald is a PhD candidate at BTH employed from November 1 working with supporting engineering decision making. Ryan is part of the KKS research profile “Model Driven Development and Decision […]

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