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 function for longer and thus increase resource productivity, minimise resource consumption and enhance the ultimate value-add to the end user. In this spirit, the 9th […]
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Hur utvecklar man en robot som kan utföra komplexa arbetsuppgifter genom att samarbeta med andra robotar? Studenterna i årskurs två har under vårterminen jobbat med en mekatronisk utmaning där uppgiften var att konstruera, bygga och programmera en autonom robot. Årets utmaning i projektkursen MT1458 fokuserade på samarbete, roboten skulle lösa en given uppgift så bra […]
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Here follows an interview with senior lecturer Christian Johansson. Currently the main coach for the BTH students in the global Stanford ME310 Design Innovation project. Christian, you’re the coach for the global team. What is your role? I have several roles on this team. First, as the Swedish students does the project as their final […]
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The Swedish Minister of Higher Education and Research Helene Hellmark Knutsson with entourage came to meet the BTH-affiliated team at Stanford Engineering’s d.School on Thursday to see them in action.
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Produktutvecklingslabbet bjöd in till en eftermiddag i Karlskrona Makerspace där ungdomar i åldern 8-12 år fick pröva på att skapa robotar, smycken mm. Forskarna Johan Wall, Christian Johansson och Tobias Larsson stöttade kidsen i att 3D-printa och bygga robotar med hjälp av Lego Mindstorms. Det var imponerande att se hur långt ungdomarna kom i sina […]
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Den 9:e januari bjöds matteintresserade elever in till Blekinge Tekniska Högskola i Karlskrona för att utmana sig i olika spännande aktiviteter. PDRL genomförde en workshop där problemlösning stod i fokus. PDRL’s team bestod för dagen av Johan Wall, Christian Johansson och Ansel Berghuvud. Huvudsyftet för oss när vi genomför denna typ av aktivitet är att […]
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The Product Development Research Lab at BTH are for the fifth year starting up a ME310 project in collaboration with the Design Division at Stanford University. Again this year, Volvo Construction Equipment are the industrial partner.
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On December 9 Md. Shafiqul Islam, PhD Candidate, presented and successfully discussed his licentiate thesis in Mechanical Engineering.
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Leonardo da Vinci is remembered in history as a “universal genius”, he was an artist, a scientist, a mathematician and an engineer. He generated a huge amount of ideas and sketches of revolutionary concepts in his days. Although, almost none of these became reality. Why was it like that? What is the reason that brilliant ideas […]
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Value-Driven Design (VDD) research wants to understand how ‘value’ can be modelled and visualized in the engineering decision making process, so to guide early stage generation and selection of design concepts.
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