The Faste Laboratory
a VINNOVA Excellence Centre for
Functional Product Innovation
Partners
 Industry
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Gestamp HardTech
Hägglunds Drives
Infrafone
LKAB
Sandvik Coromant
Volvo Car Corporation
Volvo Construction
Equipment
 Chairs at LTU
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Computer Aided Design
Entrepreneurship
Fluid Mechanics
Material Mechanics
» Accounting and Control
What is a Functional Product (FP)?
 Constituent Elements of the FP are
» Hardware
» Software
» Services
Support system
 The FP has been developed to be sold as a function
(in contrast to traditional leasing contracts)
 Several business opportunities
» The provider can own all the constituent elements of the FP
and charge for the function at a certain availability
» The provider can own the hardware and software while the
customer are responsible for the maintenance
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Example
 Contract regarding availability of a torque
per time unit
M(t)
Vision
New methods and tools are developed enabling
functional products with optimized lifecycle cost and
customer value and enabling the industry partners to take
lead in functional product businesses
The concept of Functional Product Innovation leads to
 Increased customer value
 Sustainable growth
 Responsibility throughout the lifecycle
Methods
of work
The Experimental Studio
Designed for evaluation of collaborative concepts
Financed by: the Kempe Foundations and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
Organisation
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Dissemination (Storyboard, from challenges to capabilities)
WP1
Challenges &
High-level objectives
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Research Questions
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Solutions
Faste Excellent
Capabilities
WP2
Demos
Projects
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WP3
Demos
Projects
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WP0
Board
Director
General Assembly
Executive Committee
Advisory Group
FPI
Work Packages and Research
Projects
 WP1–Faste Excellent Capabilities
» RP1.1 - Functional Product Business Modelling
 WP2-Functional Product Development
» RP2.1 - Functional Product Development Process
» RP2.2 - Functional Product System Availability
» RP2.3 - Extended Win-Win Enterprise Collaboration for Functional
Product Development
» RP2.4 - Conversion of Monitored Data to Usable Knowledge in
Product Development
 WP3-Simulation Driven Design, Knowledge Sharing and
Global Product Development
» RP3.1 – Models as a Device for Knowledge Sharing
» RP3.2 - Simulation Driven Functional Product Development and
Operation
» RP3.3 - Retention and Reuse of Knowledge in Product Development
» RP3.4 – Information Integration and Implementation
Some Key Results
 Functional Product Development
» A framework for a development process coupling
all the constituent elements of FP based on
previous research and partner company
interviews has been derived
 Distributed Collaborative Engineering
» Methods for how to collect and analyse diverse
data from distributed sources to be used for
evaluation of the providers perception of the
customer needs have been developed
 Simulation Driven Design
» Several tools enabling rapid convergence on
optimal FP solutions have been developed.
Some of the tools are already used by
companies
Updating Feeder
System/Component State
Data Simulation or Statistics
System/Component State
Data Analyses
Models of Nonexisting
Hardware
Binary Decision Diagrams
(based upon Fault Tree)
Failure- & Repair Time
Data Simulation or Statistics
Failure- & Repair Time
Data Analyses
HW Reliability
HW Maintainability
Functional Product
System Model
(Petri Net)
Accuracy Feeder
Updating Feeder
Task State Data Simulation or
Task State Data Analyses
Statistics
Model of Nonexisting
Support System
Petri Net
Task Time
Data Simulation or
Statistics
SS Reliability
SS Maintainability
Task Time
Data Analyses
Accuracy Feeder
Design Parameters
Optimisation
Optimal Design Parameters
Functional Product Availability
and Cost
Research and Education
 Strong coupling between research within the Faste
Laboratory and education
 Partners within the Faste Laboratory have the
possibility to run real projects to
» Create innovations in a very short time frame
» Test methods and tools
» Find suitable co-workers
 SIRIUS-Creative product development (Final course in
Mechanical Engineering)