Manufacturing knowledge: Going from production of things to designing value in use

Issue title: CogInfoCom enabled research and applications in engineering

Guest editors: Wei Deng Solvang and Bjørn Solvang

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Ericson, Åsa^{a; *} | Johansson, Christian^b | Nergård, Henrik^a

Affiliations: [a] Product Innovation, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden | [b] Department of Mechanical Engineering, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden | Department of Industrial Engineering, Narvik University College, Narvik, Norway

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Åsa Ericson, Product Innovation, Luleå University of Technology, 971 87 Luleå, Sweden. Tel.: +46 0920 49 20 61; E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract: A new vision in manufacturing is to develop product-service integrated value solutions. Today, few firms have fully realized this vision because they are not able to support the reasoning in the early stages of design. The purpose of this paper is to discuss engineers' cognitive challenge when replacing the core product rationale with value logic. The paper problematizes engineering design by dividing knowledge into the categories technically constructed (explicit) and socially constructed (tacit). In doing so, this study contributes the assumed effects of a perspective shift that could guide the development of computational tools.

Keywords: Product-service systems, knowledge management, value-driven design, conceptual design, knowledge maturity

DOI: 10.3233/IDT-140207

Journal: Intelligent Decision Technologies, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 79-89, 2015