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Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Minimum Viable Products in Mechatronic System Engineering: Approach for Early and Continuous ValidationMinimum Viable Products (MVPs) are products created with little effort, in which experienceable properties are made available to customers and users without the product having to be developed, thus enabling early validation in terms of customer and user benefit. Due to increasing uncertainties for developing companies and the fact that there is a discrepancy between the importance of validation as a central activity for reducing uncertainty and the importance in the research environment, the integration of MVPs into the development process was supported. For this purpose, a portfolio for the selection of MVPs within the framework of the SPALTEN was created. This portfolio contains 17 different MVPs, which are selected according to the objective for validation and the stage of development. Finally, two MVPs were selected in a development project, set up and made available to customers and users in the course of a product validation. This helped to reduce the uncertainty regarding two objectives and identify a false objective, which was then removed from the product system of objectives.Publicationtype: Conference Paper35 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Agile development in different organizational structures: potentials and challenges(The International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM), 2020-12); ; More and more companies are implementing agility in their organization. Therefore, it has to be considered that different organizational structures exist, each with different characteristics. Some of these characteristics favor the introduction of agility, while others make it difficult or even impossible. In the context of this contribution, essential characteristics of agile organizational structures are identified and four different, established forms of organization are considered. The characteristics of agile organizational structures basically exist in every organizational structure, but the type of characteristics is decisive in how far the organizational structure favors or hinders the introduction of agility. The four established forms of organization are then examined for the existence and the specification of the identified characteristics. This results in an overview of which organizational forms already favor the introduction of agility …Publicationtype: Conference Paper123 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , ASD – Agile Systems Design in Modular Design: Operationalization of agile Principles for cross-platform Agile-Boards(2019-07); ; ; 41 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , InnoBandit 2.0: a systematic approach to scenario-based product profile generation in PGE – Product Generation EngineeringMore than ever before, innovations are transforming industries and people’s lives in ways that were previously unimaginable. Due to rapid technological changes and shifting market dynamics, the economic success and organizational survival of businesses are increasingly dependent upon forward-looking strategies and innovations. The effect is the increasing popularity and adoption of scenario management across the business sector. However, the scope of future uncertainties considered in the traditional product development process is often limited, and there is yet to be a systematic approach that aids the engineers in making future-oriented development decisions in an agile fashion. Therefore, a targeted creativity method that integrates foresight and technical analysis is proposed in the present article to enable scenario-based product profile generation in the product innovation process. Adapted from the existing creativity method InnoBandit, developed at IPEK-Institute of Product Engineering, the method is derived by experts who have also been involved in the development of the first version of InnoBandit. Validation of the method is achieved through student participation in the Live-Lab AIL - Agile Innovation Lab and an expert workshop in collaboration with the industry partner Trumpf.Publicationtype: Journal Article28 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Nudges: An assisted strategy for improving heuristic decision in PGE-product generation engineering(Elsevier, 2019-05); ; ; ; Heuristic decisions are automatically made during the whole product development processes to find solutions, when information and time are limited. Heuristic decisions are a simple process and give a fast response. However, they can lead to decision-making errors because of heuristic traps such as social bias and representativeness. Thus, it is important to investigate strategies to reduce such bias. One strategy that influences decision making is the nudging strategy, which is applied in behavioural economics, politics and healthcare. This research investigates whether the results of utility analysis change when elements of the nudging strategy are integrated in the method. The study was performed in a workshop with an automotive company. The workshop aimed at specifying functions of a tool for the selection and guided processing of development methods in daily activities. Therefore, different possible tool features had to be evaluated regarding i.a. expected value and required effort for different stakeholders and technical feasibility. Hence, many decisions were made during the workshop, such as rating the importance of different stakeholders and evaluating tool functions. The elements “Feedback”, “Incentive” and “Structure complex” of the nudging strategy were applied in some parts of the workshop to test, if they could change the decision behaviour, which is under the influence of e.g. self-serving bias, representativeness and positive effect. It could be observed that applying the elements from the nudging strategy changed results in general. For example: After getting Feedback about the group average result of a first rating round, the individual estimations regarding the share of a certain stakeholder in the company were closer to the group average in the second round (p<0.01). The final results were additionally influenced by calculation schemes which reduced the visibility of decision changes in the final result. However, the overall evaluation of some features was still affected.Publicationtype: Journal Article54 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , A systematic approach to situation-adequate mechatronic system development by ASD - Agile Systems Design(Elsevier, 2019-05); ; ; ; The process of product development is a problem-solving process characterized by the continuous handling of uncertainties by development teams. For this reason, companies in the field of mechatronic system development implement agile approaches in their development processes in order to deal adequately with these uncertainties, which, however, reach their limitations in individual areas due to different characteristics of physical products. In addition, the development processes contain problems that are of a complicated or simple nature and can therefore be sufficiently planned and solved by plan-driven procedures. For this reason, in the present contribution principles from the literature are derived that support developers in their activities in mechatronic system development. In addition, a model is presented that allows developers to assess the planning stability of individual process elements at different process levels and thereby implement a situation- and demand-oriented degree of agile process elements into the development process.Publicationtype: Journal Article71 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Eine Systematik zur situationsadäquaten Mechatroniksystementwicklung durch ASD - Agile Systems Design(Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2019-03-04); ; ; ; The process of product development is a problem-solving process characterized by the continuous handling of uncertainties by development teams. For this reason, companies in the field of mechatronic system development implement agile approaches in their development processes in order to deal adequately with these uncertainties, which, however, reach their limitations in individual areas due to different characteristics of physical products. In addition, the development processes contain problems that are of a complicated or simple nature and can therefore be sufficiently planned and solved by plan-driven procedures. For this reason, in the present contribution principles from the literature are derived that support developers in their activities in mechatronic system development. In addition, a model is presented that allows developers to assess the planning stability of individual process elements at different process levels and thereby implement a situation- and demand-oriented degree of agile process elements into the development process.Publicationtype: Research Report11 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , 20 years of co-creation using case based learning: an integrated approach for teaching innovation and research in product generation engineering(Springer, 2018-09); ; ; ; The teaching program IP - Integrated Product Development has been implemented annually with great success for 20 years, which means that this format has gained a high level of acceptance among companies from a wide range of industries. The participating students acquire professional skills in the area of PGE - Product Generation Engineering through the experience of the real development project and by applying activities and methods of product development, combined with a lecture that deals with the most recent cases from the business world. With the aim of bringing the co-creation formats to further student target groups with diverse needs, the format IP was analyzed and a general valid co-creation approach for case-based learning, was characterized by relevant success factors. Based on this, it was possible to transfer the success factors from IP contextual into the breadth (reaching a high number of students) and into the depth (gain of research competences) by means of two further formats.Publicationtype: Conference Paper73 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Managing systems of objectives in the agile development of mechatronic systems by ASD - Agile Systems Design(The Design Society, 2018-08); ; ; ; In the development of mechatronic systems and the associated product services and business models, the system of objectives contains all relevant objectives of various stakeholders, as well as requirements, boundary conditions and interdependencies between objectives. It serves as basis to define the solution area for the technical implementation of products and provides the foundation to validate resulting virtual and physical objects in the process of product development. In particular, the objectives of potential customers and users regarding the product change with an increasing dynamic, which leads to a lack of transparency. Accordingly, the product development process is characterized by constant uncertainties. To be able to counteract these uncertainties, companies are increasingly using agile approaches in order to identify potentially changed objectives at an early stage and to adapt the product along the product development process accordingly. An early validation of prototypes with low functionalities is also carried out under consistent customer integration to identify further objectives early on. As a result, the overall process gains in robustness. One approach that supports the developer throughout the entire development process of mechatronic systems is ASD - Agile Systems Design. It consists of principles, methods and processes of the PGE - Product Generation Engineering and contains a constellation of structuring and flexible elements that can be adapted to the respective development context. To support the process of product development, it is imperative to understand the behavior of systems of objectives in order to be able to derive resulting recommendations for the development. Based on a real development project that has been completed according to ASD, the paper introduces an approach to identify the development of the maturity of the systems of objectives. On this basis, a methodology is presented which supports the agile management of systems of objectives to meet the associated requirements. Thus, a handling of systems of objectives in connection with prototypes generated during the process is presented, which leads to a robust safeguarding of the development direction.Publicationtype: Conference Paper41 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Agile method development: A Live-lab case study on product properties for process planning(Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, 2018-05); ; ; ; Developing design methods can be described as a process similar to product development processes. Following agile approaches is worthwhile in order to identify relevant requirements of potential users at early stages of method's maturity. Live-Labs, as a controllable research environment located between laboratory and field studies, provide an environment whose results are neither too specific nor too generic. In this paper, an agile development of a method for process planning depending on product attributes is presented. The research took place in a Live-Lab with industrial participation.Publicationtype: Conference Paper33