The annual result day for ProViking was this year held at Aspenäs Manor outside Gothenburg, where 15 projects presented their results. ProViking is a national research program designed to create improved systems of production and new methods of product development. From Luleå University of Technology three projects participated; THINK, ProAct...
Fordonsstrategisk Forskning och Innovation – FFI Energy and environment PROJECT SUMMARY The need to reduce our consumption of fossil fuels is a major factor influencing governments and industry and decisions being made for future investments. In this vein, Volvo Construction Equipment AB has identified a new transmission technology which has...
Project summary The project goal is to identify needs for new/complementary methods and tools to enhance the possibilities for evaluation of new, groundbreaking, technologies in the early development phases of vehicle platform development. Project information Project Leader: Tobias Larsson Type: Research Application area: Vehicle Time frame: 2009-2012 Funding: 12 MSEK...
VINNOVA Vehicle Development FFI 2009-2012 (ongoing) PROJECT SUMMARY New environmentally friendly, and safer, vehicles require lighter and stronger materials, something that requires developments in production technologies and processes. New ideas for knowledge automation and reuse enables better usage of machine data during the production process. The new concepts and methodologies...
National Aviation Engineering Research Programme Project: PROJECT SUMMARY This project, Mechanical whole engine conceptual design and analysis: A MEthodology for OPtimization, Integration and Automation, is a continuation of the pilot study project NFFP4202 – Mechanical whole engine modelling where a platform, together with a pilot that demonstrated the capability of...
DIM – Digital Integrated Manufacturing INTERREG IV:A:NORD 2009-2011 (finalized) PROJECT SUMMARY Benefits of new technology are not just for bigger enterprises! Is Your company productive and competitive? Even in the future competition?Against new actors and technology? Or might there be things You could do more efficient with new tools! What?...
2009-09: Last Friday, Mattias Bergström and Tobias Larsson had an inspiring meeting together with representatives from Volvo Construction Equipment (VCE), Eskilstuna. This meeting was the starting point of a new research project between LTU and VCE. The aim of the project is to study and map Global Team Innovation at...
Book chapter published in “Introduction to Product/Service-System Design”. Abstract The adaptation of Product/Service-System calls for new development models. On one side this businesses give the manufacturing firm possibilities to redesign, upgrade and replace the discrete device that provides the performance their customers are asking for. On the other side, this...
2009-09: Nine members of the Division of Functional Product Development staff participated in the 17th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED’09), which was held at Stanford University, CA, between August 24-27 2009. Four professors at ICED’09 – from left: Tobias Larsson (LTU, Sweden), Amaresh Chakrabarti (IISC, India), Larry Leifer (Stanford,...
Research paper published in Proceedings of the ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Abstract In this paper empirical finding from a study conducted at an aerospace company is compared to theory regarding Experience Feedback (EF), Lessons Learned (LL) and Decision Making (DM)....
