Outputs (24)

Hand layup: understanding the manual process (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, © 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. The hand layup of pre-impregnated woven materials is still a large part of the composite manufacturing industry, requiring the skills and experience of a human workforce to form flat plie... Read More about Hand layup: understanding the manual process.

Studying effects of preshearing on hand layup (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, © 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. Advanced composites are used extensively in many high performance applications. As they are taken up in a wider range of applications, the volume of demand is pushing manufacturing method... Read More about Studying effects of preshearing on hand layup.

Building material capabilities: A socio-technical analysis of composite product development and manufacturing strategy (2015)
Journal Article

The development of advanced material requires much more than purely technical knowledge. This paper presents a socio-technical analysis of industrial capability issues for composites material product. The central idea behind this work is to provide a... Read More about Building material capabilities: A socio-technical analysis of composite product development and manufacturing strategy.

Locked in a capability trap? The case of the composites industry (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

How can a new material technology create growth? Is having a better material a guarantee for industrial success? This work suggests that technological growth requires a different level of analysis to enable a holistic understanding of issues around t... Read More about Locked in a capability trap? The case of the composites industry.

Understanding the NPD - Production interface: Advanced industrialisation and growth in the composite industry (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper provides an initial attempt to theoretically describe and understand how the composite product supply chain could reach advanced levels of industrialisation. At the heart of this work rest the interface between NPD (New Product Development... Read More about Understanding the NPD - Production interface: Advanced industrialisation and growth in the composite industry.

Bridging the multiple reality gap: Application of augmented reality in new product development (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Increased product complexity and internal team dynamics pose serious challenges to the quality of collaboration, usually reflected upon long delays, cost overruns and poor design quality during product development. Our focus is to study the factors t... Read More about Bridging the multiple reality gap: Application of augmented reality in new product development.

Hierarchies of adaptable learning during product development (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Shorter product lifecycles, shrinking time-to-market and increasing global competition, drive companies to premature transitions from the development laboratory to full-scale commercial production. This ramp-up period is usually considered as a trans... Read More about Hierarchies of adaptable learning during product development.

System dynamics and learning: Learning during the product realization chain (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Global market competition and consumer attitudes, demand a constant flow of new products in the market. Product lifecycles shrink and consequently the pressure for novel products that rapidly pass from the R&D lab to the consumer hands is increased,... Read More about System dynamics and learning: Learning during the product realization chain.

Learning and continuous process improvement during new product development (2010)
Thesis

Consumer attitudes and fashion trends during the last decades increased the need for varied product designs, imposing severe constraints in manufacturing and especially in traditionally mass production processes. Additionally, the workforce is shifti... Read More about Learning and continuous process improvement during new product development.

Design of an advanced prototype robot for white asparagus harvesting (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Agricultural workplaces are a prototypical example of unstructured and variant environments, offering a novel challenge to robotic research and automation. In this paper, a robot prototype is presented for white asparagus harvesting. White asparagus... Read More about Design of an advanced prototype robot for white asparagus harvesting.