The research field is Engineering Design and Product Development, and is mainly focused on the product-service system development:
The research is categorized into the following thematic areas within product development;
- Methods and tools for product development & innovation
- Value driven product development and value innovation
- Modelling and simulation in product development
- Methods and tools for incremental product development and radical innovation
- Creative methods for concept ideation and generation
- Key performance indicators (KPI) for innovation and product development work
- Simulation driven design
- Web 2.0 technolgies and tools for knowledge sharing (wikis, blogs, folksonomies etc.)
- Design Automation (Knowledge Based Engineering, Case Based Reasoning, Design Rational Capture etc.)
These themes are focusing aspects of my research.
The research is applied to different application areas, or domains;
- Aerospace and space
- Automotive
- Manufacturing
- Health and wellbeing