Sustainable Product Lifecycle Platforms

​The ability to sustainably develop, produce and maintain products including related services is essential for both OEMs and suppliers. The platform-based approach is one key to sustainable product realization as an enabler for simultaneous re-use of assets and offer of product distinctiveness to customers. To enable this, new knowledge for accessing and utilizing technology, product and process knowledge, as well as supporting PLM solutions, will be required. The main novel contribution from this research is a developed and implemented new information framework for platform products which in its definition also includes related services.

Sustainable Product Lifecycle Platforms is an active field of research within the Production Area of Advance at Chalmers.

Project leader: Hans Johannesson

Platform knowledge reuse and management at GKN (former Volvo Aero)

• Hans L Johannesson

  Professor at the division of Product Development, Department of Industrial and Materials Science

  Hans research, which is focused on platform based development, is carried out in close cooperation with Swedish manufacturing, aerospace and automotive industry.
• Johan Malmqvist

  Head of division of Product Development and chair professor, Department of Industrial and Materials Science. Director of Master's Programme Product Development.

  Johan Malmqvist is chair professor in product development. His research addresses development methodologies and IT support for product development (PLM). Current research focuses methods and tools...
• Magnus Evertsson

  Professor (PhD, Docent) in Machine Elements, Head of Division Product Development, Department of Industrial and Materials Science

  Dr. Magnus Evertsson is professor in Machine Elements at the department of Industrial and Materials Science. He received his PhD from Chalmers in 2000 and was appointed Docent in 2006. His own...
• Dag Henrik Bergsjö

  Professor at the division of Product development, Department of Industrial and Materials Science

  I am conducting research within the area of Lean product development, systems engineering and platform development (Technology, product and production platforms). My responsibilities include...
• Lars Almefelt

  Vice Head of Department with responsibility for education at undergraduate and masters level, Senior Lecturer at the division of Product Development, Industrial and Materials Science

  Methodology for product innovation is the core of my teaching and research. Specifically, I am skilled in management of requirements, with focus on the role of requirements in product innovation. My...
• Daniel Corin Stig

  PhD Student Product development, Product and Production development

  Daniel is a PhD student at the Department of Product and Production Development, focusing his research on management of technology development. His goal is to help companies reduce the amount of...
• Johannes Quist

  Researcher at the division of Product Development, Department of Industrial and Materials Science

  Johannes research focuses on creating a virtual development platform for comminution machines and equipment in the mining and aggregate industry. The computational method discrete element method...