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Research group · Product development

Systems Engineering Design

We study the product development process and its participants in order to understand their problems and needs — and turn that knowledge into better work procedures, development methods and computer-based tools.

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Researchers, faculty and doctoral students
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Full professors in product development
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Publications in the last five years
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Open research tools and demonstrators

What we research

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Platform-based development

A widely adopted strategy for balancing the conflict between reuse and demands on customisation. We work towards a system-family-based platform description approach grounded in PLM environments.

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Methods and work procedures

Understanding how engineers actually develop products — and transforming that knowledge into better work procedures and development methods for industry.

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Computer-based engineering tools

Design automation, knowledge reuse and decision support: tools that carry knowledge from early requirement and concept phases through detail design and into production.

Recent publications

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2026

Assessing the impact of digital design automation on engineering change management

Pradas Gómez A, Panarotto M, Isaksson O · Journal of Engineering Design

2025

Sustainability criteria in early product platform development — a design support evaluation

Mallalieu A, Hajali T, Isaksson Hallstedt S · Proceedings of the Design Society (ICED25)

2025

Function modelling for system-family-based platform descriptions in PLM environments

Martinsson Bonde J, Brahma A, Malmqvist J · Research in Engineering Design

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