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Product Realization |
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Group description Product realization is the work that an organization goes through to develop, manufacture, and deliver the finished goods or services. Product realization includes customer-related processes, design and development, purchasing, production and service provision, and control of monitoring and measuring processes. [ISO 9001:2000] Research on product realization concerns the design, operations and improvement of these product realization processes. This process design is a part of Design Science, with Design Science defined as “a system of logically related knowledge, which should contain and organize the complete knowledge about and for designing” [Hubka & Eder, p. 73]. Research at IPR within product realization IPR’s research is founded on a system theoretical base, where the product realization system is considered a transformation process of input to output, enabled by humans, technology, energy, and information. It is an open system, dependent on and influencing, organizational contexts of management systems, markets, and regulations. IPR’s research on product realization has a life cycle perspective and we strive towards a zero net waste operation in social, environmental and economic terms. The life cycle perspective leads to the integration of product development aspects, production aspects, and after market aspects. Our vision & strategy IPR’s research aims at creating new knowledge, understanding, and support for designing product realization processes by creative elemental and applied research. By examples and guidelines we provide management support to manage crucial processes and aspects of product realization. We show success factors, system requirements, enabling system- and business solutions, management systems, and performance measures required for sustainable product realization. We transfer our knowledge about management decision support, high performance product development, innovative production development, operations management and after market development to industry and academia through publications, education, and industrial collaborations. |
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