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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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Tillverkning och övervakning på distans i Makerspace

4th October 2017
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I Makerspace, vårt lab för idégenerering och prototyputveckling, har vi bland annat ett antal 3d-skrivare. Även om tekniken utvecklas snabbt är det tyvärr inte ovanligt att utskrifter, i synnerhet större […]

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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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Nonlinear Quality Function Deployment: an experimental analysis

2nd October 2017
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ABSTRACT Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a common model to frontload engineering design activities with, linking the characteristics of a product vs. the voice of the customer using linear relationships. […]

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Value-driven engineering design: lessons learned from the road construction equipment industry

2nd September 2017
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ABSTRACT Value models, in form of economical optimization functions, are often proposed to frontload engineering design activities. However, literature argues that, when qualitative data and assumptions prevail, a qualitative assessment […]

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Design For Resource-Limited Societies: Informational Behaviour Of Designers

30th August 2017
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ABSTRACT There is a sharp contrast between High Resource Settings (HRSs), commonly seen in developed countries and Low Resource Settings (LRSs), typically found in the marginalised sections of societies around […]

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The emergence process of innovation teams

29th August 2017
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ABSTRACT This research aims to gain knowledge regarding the group development process of newly formed innovation teams. In this comparative research, five multi-functional innovation teams based on voluntary members have […]

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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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Innovation Enablers and Their Importance for Innovation Teams

12th October 2016
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ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to develop an understanding of factors that enable innovation teams to conduct agile innovation work in an industrial context. The background and reason […]

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The Adoption of Additive Manufacturing Technology in Sweden

31st August 2016
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ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the adoption of Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies in Sweden. The dataset consists of a recent and representative sample of Swedish AM users (companies, universities, and research […]

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