"Reviewers favourite", Top 10% paper. ICED'17, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

"Reviewers favourite", Top 10% paper. ICED'13, Seoul, Korea.

Best paper award at the International Conference on Research into Design - ICoRD'11, with the paper "Towards open innovation practices in aerospace industry: challenges and opportunities".

Finalist (top 4) in the national ranking "Technology Star 2008", arranged by Dagens Teknik magazine.

Global Top 10 ten on the "The 10 Best Intranet Designs of 2001" by NNGroup and Useit.com for the development of the division intranet.

Packaging Material Characterization
Identification of Defect Modes
Micro structural Scanning Electron Microscopic(SEM) Analysis
Improvement of Simulation Model
Playing with Different control factors (CF)

Industry needs people who understand what the world wants: innovative products and services delivered in the most sustainable way possible. At BTH, we believe that combining an overarching approach to socio-ecological sustainability with a disciplined approach to meeting market and human needs through product-service systems is the way of the future, and we are doing our part to show the way. By closely collaborating with our industrial partners, we are preparing people to be the next generation of innovators by bringing together engineering, innovation, and sustainability competence through this unique master's program.

Medical imaging is facing major challenges. The demographic and geographic structure needs to be addressed with new approaches and services. Digitalisation has been ongoing for over 10 years, but there is still great potential to be exploited in sharing capacity and expertise. This project focuses on this potential.

The project will analyze more effective forms of collaboration, working in networks. The issue is complex in nature as it spans over different health care providers, specialties and processes. It also covers a number of areas such as technology, patient safety, legal and regulatory requirements.

In this project, we're working with industrial partners to develop and test support for product designers (in the sense of both individuals and the design/value networks) to consider sustainability in their decision making. I am working with a construction equipment company and their customer network. This group are facing a decision about whether to change their road construction approach to include a new method. I am developing support to help them to consider sustainability and the relationship of sustainability to other considerations while making this decision. This support is a mock-up (~prototype) and the purpose of developing it is to also learn about how might support aid the consideration of sustainability in these types of situations.

(This is my first entry in the new LinkedIn project format, so please excuse anything I mess up!)

As our population ages, society faces new challenges. Demand for primary health care services is rising: with the retirement of older professionals and an unwillingness amongst younger professionals to re-locate to remote areas, there is a shortage of physicians, especially in rural areas.

It was to meet these challenges that the project “PrimCareIT – Counteracting brain drain and professional isolation of health professionals in remote primary health care through tele-consultation and tele-mentoring to strengthen social conditions in remote BSR”, was initiated. Please find out more about our activities and first results.

Increase supply chain collaboration to create new products and services that increase competitiveness. Enable organisations to efficiently integrate research in innovation, technology (with focus on light structures) into development of new solutions within automotive supply chain

Collaborative and Robust Engineering using Simulation Capability Enabling Next Design Optimisation” (CRESCENDO) is a 3-year EU co-funded R&T project with a 55 M€ budget, launched in May 2009. The project is led by Airbus and brings together 59 organisations from 13 different countries, including major aeronautics industry companies, service and IT solution providers, research centres and academic institutions.

The project will provide a cost-effective development of sustainable e-health related services and products. This should be done by various pilot project demonstrators to create realistic scenarios. Primarily this is done for the County Council of Blekinge but also other potential customers may be targeted. The project will create a technological-medical frontier area that can generate new business in Blekinge.

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 been shown to offer a substantial saving in fuel consumption. The aim of this proposed project is to provide support towards achieving the objective of bringing this new transmission technology to the market as quickly as possible.

Collaborative and Robust Engineering using Simulation Capability Enabling Next Design Optimisation” (CRESCENDO) is a 3-year EU co-funded R&T project with a 55 M€ budget, launched in May 2009. The project is led by Airbus and brings together 59 organisations from 13 different countries, including major aeronautics industry companies, service and IT solution providers, research centres and academic institutions.

The development of a unique Swedish aerospace research agenda including nine concrete steps forward.

The development of a unique Swedish aerospace research agenda including nine concrete steps forward.

Value Improvement through a Virtual Aeronautical Collaborative Enterprise, was a collaborative research project funded by EU's Sixth Framework Programme. VIVACE is an Aeronautical Collaborative Design Environment with associated Processes, Models and Methods. This environment will help to design an aircraft and its engines as a whole, providing to the aeronautics supply chain in an extended enterprise, virtual products with all requested functionality and components in each phase of the product engineering life cycle.

The aim of the project is to demonstrate how innovative solutions can be developed if traditional modular and component interfaces are challenged and to enable a hardware demonstrator for Clean Sky II. Partners in this VINNOVA NFFP (2015-2017, 10.5 MSEK) project are BTH, GKN Aerospace, Chalmers, Swerea IVF

Karlskrona Makerspace is a research and education environment initiated and hosted by BTH Mechanical Engineering providing public access to emerging technologies (3D printing etc.). The Karlskrona Makerspace is creating a platform to embrace and foster creativity among different disciplines and backgrounds. It epitomizes an open learning environment where people can co-learn and co-create innovative and emergent solutions to some of today’s problems by the use of maker culture.

By creating needfinding platform beta1.0, 2.0 , which are building upon research in needfinding, product-service innovation and user-oriented product development theory.

With a vision to be "An internationally leading research environment and the first-hand choice of partners who want to lead the way to a sustainable society through competitive product-service systems" this project explore the development and innovation within sustainable product-service systems in collaborative mode with 7 company partners. Focus is on model driven development and decision support systems to enhance the development of competitive, innovative and sustainable solutions, and to enhance the competitiveness of the participating industry partners.

Partners in this Knowledge Foundation research profile (2012-2017, 110 MSEK) are Aura Light International, Avalon Innovation, Dynapac Compaction Equipment, Holje International Group, Industrigruppen Karlskrona, Tech Network, Tetra Pak Packaging Solutions AB, GKN Aerospace Engine Systems, Volvo Construction Equipment. (2019-2022, 55 MSEK) Dynapac Compaction Equipment, Holje International Group, Industrigruppen Karlskrona, Tech Network, Tetra Pak Packaging Solutions AB, GKN Aerospace Engine Systems, Roxtec International, Volvo Car Corporation, Volvo Construction Equipment.

Contact project leader Tobias Larsson for more info: tlr@bth.se

Design for Wellbeing redirects the focus of product development from technology-based development, via needs-based development, to participative product development and innovation. By adapting a multidisciplinary approach, involving health sciences and engineering disciplines, we are able to manage the entire development cycle from an initial understanding of users’ needs to studies of finished products in use.

Design for Wellbeing is carried out in the form of research projects, application studies and student projects, building on experiences from research and education projects. The courses are project-based and team-structured, and students work closely with corporate partners on real-world innovation projects. Design for Wellbeing is an ideal framework for collaboration across distance, disciplines and disabilities.