Towards Circular Bicycle Development: Introducing a tool for progression towards a circular bicycle development process

Accell Group is the European market leader in e-bikes and the European number two player in bicycle parts and accessories. Well- known bicycle brands in their portfolio include Babboe, Batavus, Ghost, Haibike, Koga, Lapierre, Raleigh, Sparta and Winora. Since Accell has decided to give sustainability a higher priority, there is a need to...

Design for Calibrated Trust For Acceptance of Autonomous Vehicles

The advent of a society in which autonomous technology coexists with humans is an inevitability. The project focuses on one such autonomous technology in the form of autonomous vehicles or self driving cars. The benefits of such automation is well documented in academia and is supported by the investment by some of the biggest automobile and...

Key-factors for successful Product Generation Process implementation: A contract manufacturer perspective

VDL-ETG is a contract-manufacturing firm active in among others the high-tech mechatronics market. Due to developments at VDL-ETG and the market in which they are active, VDL-ETG decided that they needed a more structured product development process. Therefore VDL-ETG has designed a tailor-made product development process which they call the...