2010-12-20: Starting from today, Johan Wenngren can title himself Licentiate in Engineering in Functional Product Development since he has presented and discussed his licentiate thesis. The title of the thesis is: Teambased Innovation – early problem setting activities in engineering design.

Within the PIEp research programme the research project on "Measuring Innovation in Teams - MINT" has focused important metrics to understand if teams are performing in terms of their innovation task at hand. An important and, according to the workshop attendance, very interesting area since the result of innovation efforts come when product/service hit the market and that might be much later than the actual performed work. LTU, KTH and LU have worked together in the project together with industry.

2010-10: Mattias Bergström and Åsa Ericson have at three occasions educated innovation coaches in FUNC3, which is a workshop format for creative work. The material is developed by the personnel at the division, but has been improved and put together into an education package by Mattias and Åsa.

On 14-15 October, LTU host to the first part of PIEp graduate course in Creativity and Product Innovation. 12 excited students got out two days of intensive lessons with a focus on innovation and creativity.

Ola Isaksson, Tobias Larsson, Marcus Sandberg and Johanna Wallin contributed to the national aero space congress Flygteknik 2010 that was held Oct 18-19, in Stockholm.

2010-10: In the M7014T – Product Development Process - course we had the pleasure to host an open talk from Charles Cox titled: “Things for you to bring up when you talk with other people about design”. Moving from the general concept of design, Charles deeply investigated those aspects of the development process that are less evident for engineers and designers, such as “design as a political act” (typically marginalizing one population while privileging another), instruction vs. indoctrination, expectations vs. obligations, ambiguity and many others.

2010-10: Peter Törlind was co-hosted this year's 12-hour innovation race. This year the department used 4I4I to support the process throughout the day.

10 teams participated and about 40 students in a contest sponsored by Lindbäcks construction.

2010-09: On September 28th-30th the Division of Functional Product Development hosted the fourth EU FP7 CRESCENDO WP5.5 physical meeting. Pär Johansson, Christian Johansson, Marco Bertoni, Henrik Nergård, Johan Wenngren and Johan Holmqvist have welcomed in Luleå representatives from Volvo Aero, Eurostep, Alenia Aeronautica, EADS, SNECMA UNINOVA and ENGS.

2010-09: Marcus Sandberg told about jet engines and the METOPIA research project at Teknikens Hus September 24 during the research friday event. It was also possible to design a new jet engine.

2010-09: In the M7014T course we had the pleasure to host an open talk from Andreas Larsson, associate professor at the Department of Design Sciences, Lund University.

2010-09: At the Nordic Conference on Robotics & Automation 20-21'st of October at the Scandinavian Technical Fair, Professor Tobias is an invited keynote speaker. He will address challenges in increasing the value in the Swedish product development system.

2010-09: On September 8th-10th Tobias Larsson, Marco Bertoni and Alessandro Bertoni attended the fourth EU FP7 CRESCENDO WP2.2 physical meeting hosted by Rolls Royce in Derby, UK.

The meeting has been the occasion to summarize and discuss the latest achievements in the area of Value Driven Design and Value modelling with researchers and industrial experts from Volvo Aero, AIRBUS, Rolls-Royce UK, EADS, University of Southampton, INSIA Toulouse and Siemens.

2010:09: Marco Bertoni and Koteshwar Chirumalla have recently attended the 10th I-KNOW conference in Graz, Austria.

I-KNOW brings together international researchers from the fields of knowledge management and knowledge technologies, and, as tradition, the conference was held concurrently with I-SEMANTICS 2010, the International Conference on Semantic Systems.
Between Sept. 1st and 3rd. the beautiful Messe Congress has hosted more than 500 researchers and industrial practitioners from 32 countries.

2010-08: After 10 years at LTU, Andreas C. Larsson takes the next step in his research career by being responsible for the Innovation Engineering research at Lund University. FPD thanks for the time and send best wishes for the future!

2010-08: Mikael Nybacka has during August started his new position at Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, with Professor Annika Stensson Trigell (former PhD advisor of Tobias Larsson). The research department has a focus on vehicle dynamics. We express our gratitude for the Luleå years and wish Mikael all the best in his future research endeavours!

2010-07: The Division of Functional Product Development recently co-organized a two-day course in Strategic Sustainable Development and two days of workshops on Sustainable Innovation – gathering a total of over 100 participants. The events were held in Manaus, the capital of the state of Amazon, Brazil.

2010-06: Since the FPD start in 2007, the division has developed in a dynamic mode and the research environment today consist of 30 researchers. When entering into the new department Economy, Technology & Society FPD also make a move in facilities and move into new spaces in the A building. Plenty of space for the "Inno-X" work mode (the FPD model for cross-functional collaboration). Welcome!

2010-06: The division’s annual BBQ Cook off took place on Tuesday evening June 22. As usual, the preparations started several weeks prior to the competition. This year’s competition also coincided with us moving out from the E-house. The day after we moved to our new offices in the A-house.

2010:05. Two FPDers, Anna Karlsson and Marco Bertoni, have recently attended the 11th International DESIGN Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The conference, hosted by the University of Zagreb, gathered 285 researchers and practitioners from 30 countries.

DESIGN is a bi-annual event organized by the Design Society and held in the picturesque town of Cavtat, on the Adriatic coast just south of Dubrovnik.

The Proceedings include 187 full-length papers, which have been grouped and presented in 34 separate sessions, filled up with 11 thematic workshops held at the margin of the conference mainstream.

2010-05: We are very pleased that Alessandro Bertoni has decided to join the division and wish him welcome as a new member of the Functional Product Development staff. He will mainly contribute to the CRESCENDO project together with Volvo Aero. Professor Tobias Larsson and Professor Ola Isaksson will do their best as Alessandro’s supervisors. To present Alessandro we have made a short interview.

2010-04: The course focus on how product development can be enhanced by means of knowledge enabled engineering. The first meeting contained Engineering 2.0 and design automation and theory has been varied with hands on exercises. Esa Ryhänen from ERules presented his Sandvik Coromant design automation work. The participants work at TFM.

2010-04: The Division of Functional Product Development contributes with a chapters in the book"From CSCW to Web 2.0: European Developments in Collaborative Design", edited by Dr David Randall, Manchester Metropolitan University, and Dr Pascal Salembier, Université de Technologie de Troyes.

2010-02: On February 2nd-4th the Division of Functional Product Development hosted the third EU FP7 CRESCENDO WP2.2 physical meeting.

Marco Bertoni, Tobias Larsson and Christian Johansson have welcomed in Luleå representatives from Volvo Aero, Rolls-Royce UK, EADS, University of Southampton, INSIA Toulouse and Pyramis. The meeting had the purpose to clarify current approaches for requirement establishment in the aircraft industry and to discuss the way product development for complex systems can be initiated in favour of a more value-oriented approach.

LTU and Division of Functional Product Development together with KTH and Division of Integrated Product Development participated as speakers at Konkurrenskraft 2010, April 22. The purpose was to show the work that has been done in the program PIEp. The participants at the exhibit had the possibility to test Radical Innovation Workshop together with Mikael Nybacka (LTU) and Sofia Ritzen (KTH).

2010-04: The international CIRP conference on Integrated Product Service Systems (IPS2) was held in Linköping April 13-17. With some 80 papers and 120 attendees from all over the world it was a key event for the research in product/service systems. The division contributed with 5 scientific papers.

2010-04: The Interreg IV A Nord research project DIM – Digital Integrated Manufacturing – has today held an open seminar at LTU. The project is a cross regional program that spans over the Northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Sápmi. The three academic partners, Narvik University College, Norway, Centria (a research unit of Central Ostrobothnia Polytechnic), Finland and Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, presented their research efforts within the project for an audience of industry representatives. Henrik Nergård, also the moderator for today’s seminar and Christian Johansson are the representatives from the division that contributes to the research project. Tobias Larsson and Åsa Ericson take part as representatives in the steering group.

2010:04. Marco Bertoni from the division has recently attended the Eighth International Symposium on Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering, TMCE 2010 in Ancona, Italy (April 12 – 16), organized by the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy, and the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.

2010-04: April 13-17 in Linköping, the Division of Functional Product Development together with Linköping University, KTH and VINNOVA, arranges an international conferenc, a national workshop, and finally a network meeting for the international product/service systems network.

2010-04: We are very pleased that Johan Holmqvist has decided to join the division and wish him welcome as a new member of the Functional Product Development staff. He will mainly contribute to the FFI project Fuel Efficient Transmission Technology Concepts: Design Methodology together with Volvo Construction Equipment. Professor Tobias Larsson and PhD Åsa Ericson will do their best as Johan’s supervisors. To present Johan we have made a short interview.

2010-03: March 25:th Peter Törlind visited the Nederland’s for a workshop in the project "Developing a designerly approach to networked innovation".
The venue was the DAF museum in Eindhoven, an interesting and inspiring meeting place.

2010-03: International Design Observation Network (IDON) Doctoral Course organized by Grenoble University (France) and Luleå Technical University (Sweden) will be held in June 2010 (web seminars) and in July in Grenoble (france) (co-located workshop and seminars from 5th to 9th July, 2010)

2010-03: Peter Törlind visited the design Factory during one week to deepen the collaboration between LTU/PIEp and the Aalto University.

Design factory is one of three factories at Aalto University, that specialises on multidisciplinary research between the three schools at Aalto University. (School of Art and Design, School of Economics, School of Science and Technology)

2010-03: Ilya Tyapin has joined the division for one year as a Post Doc within the METOPIA project. He has among others done research considering optimization of industrial robots such as Parallel Kinematic Machines in collaboration with ABB Robotics, Sweden. Last autumn Ilya has completed his PhD in Mechatronics and Computer Science at University of Queensland, Australia.

2010-02: Professor Tobias Larsson has been a member of the core team behind the recently released national research agenda in aeronautics, "NRA Flyg 2010", which includes concrete targets for 2020 and 2040 as well as prioritized research areas in aeronautical engineering - both nationally and internationally.

2010-01: Thursday 14th of January we had the pleasure to listen to presentations regarding the future collaboration in product development and how the future education of creative product development will be.
We at the Division would like to congratulate Associate Professor Andreas Larsson and Senior Lecturer Peter Törlind for their promotions. We would like to thank you for the fantastic work so far!

2010-02: Mikael Nybacka and Mattias Bergström have in collaboration with Billerud performed a workshop based on an innovation topic. The representatives from Billerud were interested in trying out and test the methods for team based innovation that have been developed at the division. As facilitators of the activities we were impressed and inspired of the representatives’ enthusiasm and capability to “play the game”. We hope to see you again and wish Billerud the best in their future innovation projects.

2010-02: Friday 5 February Johan Holmqvist presented his Master thesis. The work is done at the division of Functional Product Development, partly involved in a research project regarding Global Team Based Innovation.

2010-02: On Friday Feb. 5th Meritxell Pijoan i Forcada from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya has successfully presented her Master thesis in room E231.

The thesis, titled “Interaction between cars and their drivers in twenty years time”, has been developed under the supervision of the Division of Functional Product Development and in collaboration with the Division of Industrial Design.

2010-02: Steve Wiseall from Rolls Royce UK held an open talk on Monday Feb. 1st in the M7015T course.

Steve is Team Leader of the Cost Modelling Strategy group at RR. He is currently involved in the CRESCENDO project, dealing with issues related to Value Generation and Requirement Establishment.

2010-02: On February 2nd-4th the Division of Functional Product Development hosted the third EU FP7 CRESCENDO WP2.2 physical meeting.

Marco Bertoni, Tobias Larsson and Christian Johansson have welcomed in Luleå representatives from Volvo Aero, Rolls-Royce UK, EADS, University of Southampton, INSIA Toulouse and Pyramis. The meeting had the purpose to clarify current approaches for requirement establishment in the aircraft industry and to discuss the way product development for complex systems can be initiated in favour of a more value-oriented approach.

2010-01: The divisions of Functional Product Development, Experimental Mechanics, and Mathemathics have gotten hypothesis testing from VINNOVA.

2010-01: Thursday 14th of January we had the pleasure to listen to presentations regarding the future collaboration in product development and how the future education of creative product development will be.
We at the Division would like to congratulate Associate Professor Andreas Larsson and Senior Lecturer Peter Törlind for their promotions. We would like to thank you for the fantastic work so far!

2010-01: Charlie Cox has joined Functional Product Development, and will do a postdoc during 2010 in the project Redesigning Innovation.