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Extreme PSS Innovation 2017/18 completed

Christian Johansson — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 08:21:00 +0000

In the Extreme PSS Innovation course, students from BTH’s masters programmes in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Management and Engineering, and Sustainable Product-Service System Innovation (MSPI) are given challenges from real industrial companies to solve. The course is a central part of BTH’s mantra “In Real Life”.

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Designing for Lymphedema Patients

Christian Johansson — Tue, 23 May 2017 16:21:26 +0000

In the Design Thinking course, students from the MSPI-program and the Mechanical Engineering MSc program have explored issues relating to diagnosis and treatment of Lymphedema. Based on need analysis, ideation, and a prototyping approach, the students have developed concepts for how to address these issues, focusing on merging user desirability, with feasibility and viability from a business perspective.

The project has been initiated by and performed in collaboration with Blue Science Park and the SICAHT project. Lymphedema disease provides one of the opportunities for innovation within the healthcare sector, which has been identified in an extensive mapping of needs that are yet to be fulfilled to a satisfactory level, given opportunities that comes with modern technologies and E-health.

Lymphedema is an illness that frequently affects people who has gone through cancer treatments. It is important to discover and begin effective treatment already in the early stages to manage the most severe effects of the illness. Current methods rely to a great extent on access to scarce resources within the healthcare system. Therefore, the students have investigated if there are opportunities to make identification and treatment more independent and effortless for users to manage on their own.

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Extreme PSS Innovation Completed

Christian Johansson — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 17:39:01 +0000

Using their achieved engineering skills to solve real challenges from real industrial companies is an important and inspiring challenge for the almost ready engineering students and a central part of the “In Real Life” mantra that BTH students practice. This years’ breed of Innovative product development students from three different programs have come together to address challenges from six different partner organizations.

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cx.Link – Autonomous Construction Machines and Humans

Christian Johansson — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 07:00:50 +0000

During the 2015/2016 academic year three BTH students have been collaborating with three students from Stanford University‘s ME310 Global Design Course. Project sponsor has been Volvo Construction Equipment. The project has focused on building trust between autonomous construction machines and humans in construction sites.

About the project

Project website: htttp://www.me310volvoce2016.com

Courses: ME310 (Stanford), TE2501 (MSc thesis), MT1441 (Innovation project), MT1480 (Innovation project, implementation)

Students:

Stanford ME310: Sam Frishman, Qinye Alsa Liu, Xiang “Alvin” Zhang

BTH (MSPI / MEch Engn): Hillevi Hallberg Lyggemark, Ryan Ruvald, David Winqvist

cx.Link team Ryan Ruvald, Xiang Alvin Zhang, Qinye Also Liu, Hillevi Hallberg Lyggemark, Sam Frishman, David Winqvist

Project prompt

The students were tasked with a rather open prompt. They should explore and design solutions for a context where autonomous construction machines collaborate with humans in a construction site. To make this collaboration effective and efficient, several factors relating to trust and communication should be incorporated.

cx.Link system

cx.Link

The cx.Link is a concept to support autonomous construction vehicles operating alongside human workers on major construction sites. The system contains a command center, a pod with a beacon light on each construction machine, a wrist mounted display, and a hardhat. In concert they work to enhance communication and thus trust in construction sites. The vision is

Below follows some descriptions of the parts.

The command center

The command center is the brain and processing unity of the system. It receives a bird’s-eye view of the construction site from an overhead camera. This is combined with information about machine and worker positions. This information is communicated to the other parts of the system and is made available when needed. When needed it can, for instance, alert a worker of an imminent danger.

The machine pod

Each autonomous construction vehicle is fitted with a machine pod. The pod features a signal light, which communicates with workers on the construction site. Here, function and status of the machine is stated so that the user can see that it is operational.

The wrist-mounted display

Each worker will have some additional personal equipment, which will provide them with added capabilities for communication and increased safety. The wrist-mounted display is implemented on a smartphone with a wrist mount. It displays information for the worker. Additionally, it provides wireless connectivity and GPS positioning.

The hardhat

In all constructions sites, the hardhat is a mandatory personal equipment for all construction workers. In the cx.Link concept, the hardhat is fitted with additional functionality. It is fitted with a bone conduction headset and led lights for alerting the worker of danger, system functionality, and machine intent. Depending on the specific situation, the system will provide workers with relevant information to enable them to take appropriate action.

As a leader in the construction industry, Volvo Construction Equipment are exploring concepts for running fully autonomous construction machines in aiming to increase productivity and to enhance safety for people in the sites. Even in this scenario there will be people on the site, maintaining machines and leading the operations. Therefore, the aim of the project is to create a system that will enable efficient communication between human workers and automated machines. Such a system will increase safety and foster trust between the human workers and machines.

More information

Find more information about this year’s project here:

Find more information about previous years’ ME310 projects on these links:

ME310 2015-2016: Human-Autonomous Machine Interaction
ME310 2014-2015: Urban Mining
ME310 2013-2014: Urban Mining
ME310 2012-2013: Idéum
ME310 related on our web

For more information, contact Christian Johansson (christian.m.johansson@bth.se) or Prof Tobias Larsson (tobias.larsson@bth.se).

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Trash separation

Christian Johansson — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 07:00:55 +0000

Trash Separation Dispenser Prototypes

In the Design Thinking course, Babak Nemat, Iman Baktash, and Ryan Ruvald have explored issues surrounding trash separation in public places. Their project included investigating user behavior and preferences in areas such as the BTH campus area and the local hospital. Their final concept involves new types of trash dispensers and information signs to enable user to improve behavior in sorting their trash.

About the project

Students: Babak Nemat, Iman Baktash, Ryan Ruvald

Program: MSPI

Course: MT2542 Design thinking

Project problem: Trash separation behavior in public spaces

Solution: Trash dispensers and information signs

Summary – Trash Separation

Even though many people are very good at separating their trash and recycling in their homes, it is often a lot more difficult to achieve this in public areas where the opportunities and convenience often is limited. Based on theories of designing for behavioral change, the students have designed prototypes of new attractive trash dispensers as well as information material to assist users in improving the rate of recycling.

More pictures

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Affordable and sustainable facilities for companies

Christian Johansson — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 13:00:46 +0000

Andreas Persson and Daniel Holmberg have looked into how to achieve more affordable and sustainable industrial facilities for small- and medium-sized companies in Karlskrona. Kruthusen Företagsfastigheter AB was the project owner.

About the project

Topic: How to create affordable and sustainable facilities for companies
Students: Andreas Persson, Daniel Holmberg
Partner company: Kruthusen Företagsfastigheter AB
Program: M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering
Course: TE2501 – Master Thesis

Project prompt

The rent per square meter and year of an old facility is approximately 500-550 SEK, for newly built facilities with today’s building methods the price is in excess of 1000 SEK/m2. This makes these new facilities less attractive if not unaffordable for most companies. To reduce the rent Kruthusen Företagsfastigheter AB wants to explore different methods.

Solution – Flexible facilities

A new compact building with shared common areas has been created. The focus has been not only on the tenants but also on their customers. Therefore, more efficient parking and customer reception has been improved. The meeting itself with the customer has also been improved by adding a conference room. The materials chosen for the building have been selected by sustainability- and performance factor.

Today big costs are connected with companies’ changing facilities which often require reconstruction or similar. Some needs extra bathrooms, some needs kitchen and some does not need any of it. Therefore, to save a lot of money on reconstruction a common area will be built where there will be a dressing room with showers, WC and a shared kitchen.

There are many different ways to save energy which also reduces costs. Research has been made to see if there are other alternatives to heat the building. However, district heating is available in the area where the new facility will be built which is a sustainable choice and therefore was selected. Heat losses for the new building were calculated to see if it is enough to target operational costs to be able to secure a low rent. The result was that a high amount of the heat losses can be reduced but it is not alone enough to allow affordable rents. The total cost of the building could not be estimated by us, which is the reason why other measures like common areas cannot be proven to lower the rent to the targeted value. If the concept is affordable will be shown when the concept is sent to a construction company for cost estimation.

The final building will include a common area in the middle at the entrance and 10 rooms for renting that will be 8×13 meters. To make it easier for the customers a parking lot will be built in front of the building. On the back side every company will have an area, for trucks and other work-related vehicles. Also a spot for containers will be included for extra storage for each renting company.

More illustrations

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Bike Theft Prevention

Christian Johansson — Sat, 28 May 2016 05:44:45 +0000

LittleBits prototype

In the Design Thinking course, Xin Yi and Philip Axelsson have explored solutions and concepts for preventing bike theft. Their project started by investigating user needs and preferences. Their final concept involves reinventing the bike rack with modern technologies to provide users with added comfort.

About the project

Team name: Star

Students: Xin Yi, Philip Axelsson

Program: MSPI, Industrial Management and Engineering

Course: MT2542 Design thinking

Project problem: Solving bike theft

Solution: Intelligent bike parking system

Summary – Preventing bike theft

In our bike parking system the greatest value are providing a safe parking space for bike users, which including an intelligent lock, pressure sensor, monitor system and alarming system. Moreover, this system reducing the parking time and bring more convenient for users. Intelligent parking system will be a trend.

More pictures

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Value Innovation 2015

Christian Johansson — Wed, 25 May 2016 09:36:40 +0000

Students in the Value Innovation course presented the results of their real-life projects, conducted in collaboration with industrial partners.

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PSS Extreme Innovation 2015/16 Completed

Christian Johansson — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 23:10:38 +0000

This years’ breed of Innovative product development students from three different programs have come together to address challenges from four different partner organizations.

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Autumn student projects completed

Christian Johansson — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 12:38:02 +0000

Moving into the spring semester, it’s time to look back at some of the student projects done in the courses of the autumn semester.

Knowledge Enabled Engineering

The students of the first year, completed their first semester by presenting the Knowledge Enabled Engineering projects. Two groups presented an impact measuring device for rugby and a warning system for epilepsy respectively.

Rugby Impact Measurement

Seizure Bracelet

Read more on the PDRL web: http://www.productdevelopment.se/?p=2129

PSS Extreme Innovation

The second-year students completed their 15 ECTS credit projects working with Abu Garcia, Atlas Copco, GKN Aerospace Sweden and SICAHT.

Fishing App

GKN Service Portal concept

Dynapac Roller

Elderly Social Network

More info can also be found on the PDRL web: http://www.productdevelopment.se/?p=2166

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Studenter hjälper Volvo CE och Dynapac hitta innovativa lösningar

Tobias Larsson — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:08:18 +0000

Studenter hjälper Volvo Construction Equipment och Dynapac hitta innovativa lösningar.

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Studenter hjälper Volvo CE hitta innovativa lösningar

Tobias Larsson — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:07:20 +0000

Studenter hjälper Volvo Construction Equipment hitta innovativa lösningar.

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PSS Extreme Innovation project presentations

Tobias Larsson — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:22:38 +0000

On January 19, 2012 MSPI students presented their results from the 15 credit project course Product-Service System Extreme Innovation.

The three teams were;

Team MedTech: project within healthtech development
Team Volvo: project with Volvo Construction Equipment
Team Dynapac: project with Dynapac Compaction Equipment

The teams have worked with the future challenges of these partners and developed concepts, scenarios and prototypes to be revealed on Jan 19.

Slideshow

For more information contact examiner Professor Tobias C. Larsson.

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course project Archives - MSPI - Master's in Sustainable Product-Service System Innovation

Extreme PSS Innovation 2017/18 completed

Designing for Lymphedema Patients

Extreme PSS Innovation Completed

cx.Link – Autonomous Construction Machines and Humans

About the project

Project prompt

cx.Link

The command center

The machine pod

The wrist-mounted display

The hardhat

More information

Trash separation

About the project

Summary – Trash Separation

More pictures

Affordable and sustainable facilities for companies

About the project

Project prompt

Solution – Flexible facilities

More illustrations

Bike Theft Prevention

About the project

Summary – Preventing bike theft

More pictures

Value Innovation 2015

PSS Extreme Innovation 2015/16 Completed

Autumn student projects completed

Knowledge Enabled Engineering

Studenter hjälper Volvo CE och Dynapac hitta innovativa lösningar

Studenter hjälper Volvo CE hitta innovativa lösningar

PSS Extreme Innovation project presentations

Links

Slideshow