DeMaMech: EU-Japan Collaboration in Higher Education Student Exchange Program

Offer of Research Topic

Offer from	University	University of Technology Berlin
	Faculty/Department/Institute	Department of Mechanical Engineering and Transport Systems
	Group Name	Engineering Design and Methodology
Research Theme		Analysis of the Context Dependency of Product Development
Brief Explanation		Differences in product development processes are due to the product development context, for example the company structure, the market size and pressures on lead time. Also characteristics of the products too have an impact on the process, for example the degree of innovation, the complexity and the expected volume of production. Based on these differences different activities and supporting methods and tools have to be applied. The general objective is to increase practicability, learnability, efficiency and effectivity of product development methodologies. This should be achieved by creating a methodology which can be adapted to individual needs. The objective of this research is to gather information about the connection between the context, the situation and possible measurements for fitting the product development process to changed conditions.
Research Steps		1. Literature survey (1 month) 2. Developing a questionaire for an online survey (2 months) 3. Performing the survey (1 months) 4. Analysis of first results (1 month)
Period		5 months.
Necessary Background, Knowledge, Skills		good command of English Fundamental knowledge about product development processes and methodologies. If necessary, references can be specified. Computer programming skills (Java, HTML)
Further Information		for further information please contact the person below
Contact Person		Dipl.-Ing. Moritz Meißner (moritz.meissner@ktem.tu-berlin.de)

European offers have to be 5 months, due to the EU requirement to Japanese students that they have to stay at two European Universities.