Fields of competence
The goal of our research group is the development and adaptation of methods and processes of systems engineering for industrial product development and university teaching in mechanical engineering. The focal point of our research are current challenges of agile PGE-Product generation engineering. With our expertise we provide incentives and specific concepts to develop innovative product ideas efficiently and qualitatively.
- ASD - Agile Systems Design: Plan structured – act agile: Targeted and cost-efficient innovations with the necessary flexibilit.
- PGE - Product Generation Engineering: Develop where, there is potential. We support you in aligning your development activities for a new product generation.
- Knowledge management: We enable your development by a pro-active integration of knowledge management methods.
- Development in distributed teams: Product engineering in times of globalisation: We digitize collaboration and enable worldwide cooperation across development sites.
- Innovation management & product strategy: Looking ahead is vital, to be successful tomorrow! The use of appropriate and need-based methods of strategic identification of potential is therefore imperative in order to make decisions at an early stage.
- Technical problem solving: The Problem solving methodology SPALTEN is a universal methodology to systematically solve problems.
- Development methods: We support your approach to methodical work.
- Validation: Validating products in mixed-reality-environments enables the safeguarding of the maturity level already in early development phases and thus helps to reduce late changes.
Range of services
- Live-Labs: Open-Innovation make the most of your potentials! – From analysis to Innovation, together with student teams!
- Workshops: Present us with problems – we provide you with many innovative solutions!
- Training: Appropriate knowledge transfer: Learn and apply methodical competence in interactive training!
- Transfer projects: Profit from state-of-the-art research in joint projects!
Degree Theses
Current degree theses of the research group can be found here.
Finished projects
2022
2021
- IP - Integrierte Produktentwicklung: Faurecia - "Ansätze für den insassenzentrierten Innenraum der Zukunft"
- ProVIL - Produktentwicklung im virtuellen Ideenlabor: "xpAIRience - Creating Seamless Travel & Business Opportunities in Travel Disruptions Situations“ und “Increasing the driver’s experience in fuel cell vehicles - through efficient use of energy and material flows"
2020
- IP - Integrierte Produktentwicklung: Bosch - "Zukünftige Mobilität für Personen und Güter auf städtischen Straßen ab 2025"
- ProVIL - Produktentwicklung im virtuellen Ideenlabor: "Entwicklung von Lösungen zur Ermöglichung neuer digitaler Konzepte zur Aus- und Weiterbildung von Produktentwickler*innen"
2019
- ProVIL - Produktentwicklung im virtuellen Ideenlabor: thyssenkrupp - „Smart Organisms – Elaboration and economic evaluation of existing product profiles and solution concepts“
- IP - Integrierte Produktentwicklung: thyssenkrupp - "From big-scale machines to smart organisms in the future-relevant supply of resources - Creating innovative solutions by utilizing the potential of Automation, Digitalization & Modularization"
2018
- AIL - Agilel Innovation Lab: Mahle - „ölfreie Kompression in stationären Anwendungen“
- AIL - Agile Innovation Lab: STIHL - „Unkrautregulierung auf befestigten Flächen“
- ProVIL - Produktentwicklung im virtuellen Ideenlabor: Audi Electronics Venture GmbH - „Audi Sense: Personalisierter Wahrnehmungsraum im Kontext der Premium-Mobilität“
- IP - Integrierte Produktentwicklung: BMW - „Karosserie-(Leichtbau-)Konzepte 2025+“
2017
- AIL - Agile Innovation Lab: Trumpf - „Smarte Handarbeitsplätze in der flexiblen Blechfertigung im Kontext der Industrie 4.0“
- ProVIL - Produktentwicklung im virtuellen Ideenlabor: Centro Ricerche Fiat und Bax&Company - „Vehicles for future sharing economies“
before 2017
+49 721 608 47725
felix pfaff ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
Product Lead
Head of Research Group Design Methods and Design Management
Location Building 10.23 (Mechanical Engineering Tower)
+49 721 608-45036
carsten thuemmel ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
People Lead
Head of research group Design Methods and Design Management
Location Building 10.23 (Mechanical Engineering Tower)
Publikationsliste
Dühr, K.
2022. (I. Hartmann-Dietsch & M. Landgraf, Eds.)
Albers, A.; Kürten, C.; Rapp, S.; Birk, C.; Hünemeyer, S.; Kempf, C.
2022. Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). doi:10.5445/IR/1000151151
Fleischer, J.; Doppelbauer, M.; Albers, A.; Fraider, F.; Halwas, M.; Schmitt, M.; Breining, P.; Braumandl, A.; Kübler, M.; Bause, K.; Ott, S.
2022. T. E. A. for Electromobility (Ed.), 35th International Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exhibition
Albers, A.; Ovtcharova, J.; Becker, J.; Lanza, G.; Zhang, W.; Zhang, T.; Qiao, F.; Ma, Y.; Wang, J.; Wu, Z.; Ehrmann, C.; Gönnheimer, P.; Behrendt, M.; Mandel, C.; Stürmlinger, T.; Klippert, M.; Kimmig, A.; Schade, F.; Yang, S.; Heider, I.; Xie, S.; Song, K.; Peng, J.; Goncalves, P.; Kampfmann, R.; Schlechtendahl, J.; Kattner, J.; Straub, C.; May, M.; Zhu, Z.; Bai, O.; Lin, Y.; Yang, Z.; Ding, L.; Rossol, A.-S.
2022. (J. Fleischer, Ed.), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). doi:10.5445/IR/1000143693
Kempf, C.; Rapp, S.; Albers, A.
2022. ISPIM Connects Athens – The Role of Innovation: Past, Present, Future, on 28-30 November 2022
Albers, A.; Marthaler, F.; Schlegel, M.; Thümmel, C.; Kübler, M.; Siebe, A.
2022. Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). doi:10.5445/IR/1000153864
Pfaff, F.; Eberhardt, C.; Patlakis, C.; Nowak, M.; Rapp, S.; Albers, A.
2022. The XXXIII ISPIM Innovation Conference "Innovating in a Digital World", Copenhagen, Denmark on 05 June to 08 June 2022
Pfaff, F.; Kempf, S.; Rapp, S.; Albers, A.
2022. DS 118: Proceedings of NordDesign 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16th - 18th August 2022 : "How product and manufacturing design enable sustainable companies and societies". Ed.: N.H. Mortensen, 12, The Design Society. doi:10.35199/NORDDESIGN2022.15
Albers, A.; Altner, M. M.; Rapp, S.; Valeh, B.; Redinger, H.; Winter, R.
2022. Proceedings of the Design Society, 303–312, Cambridge University Press (CUP). doi:10.1017/pds.2022.32
Albers, A.; Lanza, G.; Klippert, M.; Schäfer, L.; Frey, A.; Hellweg, F.; Müller-Welt, P.; Schöck, M.; Krahe, C.; Nowoseltschenko, K.; Rapp, S.
2022. 32nd CIRP Design Conference (CIRP Design 2022) - Design in a changing world. Ed.: N. Anwer, 167–172, Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.procir.2022.05.231
Altner, M.; Redinger, H.; Valeh, B.; Kevin, E.; Neckenich, J.; Rapp, S.; Winter, R.; Albers, A.
2022. 32nd CIRP Design Conference (CIRP Design 2022) - Design in a changing world. Ed.: N. Anwer, 538–543, Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.procir.2022.05.291
Duehr, K.; Burkhardt, M.; Endepols, S.; Machauer, T.; Albers, A.
2022. 32nd CIRP Design Conference (CIRP Design 2022) - Design in a changing world. Ed.: N. Anwer, 239–244, Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.procir.2022.05.243
Grauberger, P.; Bremer, F.; Pfaff, F.; Tröster, P.; Nelius, T.; Eisenmann, M.; Stöberl, T.; Albers, A.; Matthiesen, S.
2022. 32nd CIRP Design Conference (CIRP Design 2022) - Design in a changing world. Ed.: N. Anwer, 478–483, Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.procir.2022.05.281
Klippert, M.; Preißner, A.; Rust, H.; Albers, A.
2022. 32nd CIRP Design Conference (CIRP Design 2022) - Design in a changing world. Ed.: N. Anwer, 340–348, Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.procir.2022.05.260
Albers, A.; Duehr, K.; Zech, K.; Rapp, S.
2022. 32nd CIRP Design Conference (CIRP Design 2022) - Design in a changing world. Ed.: N. Anwer, 155–160, Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.procir.2022.05.229
Kempf, C.; Sanke, F.; Heimicke, J.; Rapp, S.; Albers, A.
2022. Proceedings of the Design Society, 2, 733–742. doi:10.1017/pds.2022.75
Schöck, M.; Voß, D.; Rapp, S.; Albers, A.
2022. XXXIII ISPIM Innovation Conference "Innovating in a Digital World", Copenhagen, Denmark on 05 June to 08 June 2022, Lappeenranta University Press
Ebel, P.; Orlovska, J.; Hünemeyer, S.; Wickman, C.; Vogelsang, A.; Söderberg, R.
2021. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 11, Art.-Nr.: 100455. doi:10.1016/j.trip.2021.100455
Pfaff, F.; Rapp, S.; Albers, A.
2021. Proceedings of the Design Society, 1, 2167–2176. doi:10.1017/pds.2021.478
Kubin, A.; Etri, M.; Dühr, K.; Rapp, S.; Albers, A.; Eckhardt, A.; Kattwinkel, D.; Bender, B.
2021. 16. Symposium für Vorausschau und Technologieplanung - SVT 2021, Berlin
Kempf, C.; Derst, M.; Hirschter, T.; Heimicke, J.; Rapp, S.; Albers, A.
2021. ISPIM Connects Valencia – Reconnect, Rediscover, Reimagine, on 30 November to 2 December 2021. Event Proceedings
Kimmig, A.; Schöck, M.; Mühlbeier, E.; Oexle, F.; Fleischer, J.; Bönsch, J.; Ovtcharova, J.; Hahn, J.; Grunwald, A.; Albers, A.; Rapp, S.; Hagenmeyer, V.; Scholz, S. G.; Schmidt, A.; Müller, T.; Becker, J.; Schade, F.; Beyerer, J.; Rehak, J.; Zwick, T.; Pauli, M.; Nuß, B.; Lanza, G.; Schild, L.; Overbeck, L.
2021. Zeitschrift für wirtschaftlichen Fabrikbetrieb, 116 (12), 935–939. doi:10.1515/zwf-2021-0207
Duehr, K.; Efremov, P.; Heimicke, J.; Teitz, E. M.; Ort, F.; Weissenberger-Eibl, M.; Albers, A.
2021. Proceedings of the Design Society, 3071–3080, Cambridge University Press (CUP). doi:10.1017/pds.2021.568
Albers, A.; Zimmermann, V.; Marthaler, F.; Bursac, N.; Duehr, K.; Spadinger, M.
2021. 23rd International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 2021, Gothenburg, 16 August 2021 through 20 August 2021, 2611–2620, Cambridge University Press (CUP). doi:10.1017/pds.2021.522
Grum, M.; Klippert, M.; Albers, A.; Gronau, N.; Thim, C.
2021. Proceedings of the Design Society, 1431–1440, Cambridge University Press (CUP). doi:10.1017/pds.2021.404
Pfaff, F.; Rapp, S.; Albers, A.
2021. EEE 2021 - Entwerfen Entwickeln Erleben in Produktentwicklung und Design 2021. Hrsg.: R. Stelzer, 175–187, TUDpress. doi:10.25368/2021.20
Pfaff, F.; Kubisch, J.; Rapp, S.; Albers, A.
2021. Proceedings of the XXXII ISPIM Innovation Conference, Berlin, Germany, 20-23 June 2021 (Online). "Innovating our Common Future"
Duehr, K.; Hofelich, M.; Beck, L.; Albers, A.
2021. R&D Management Conference 2021 “Innovation in an Era of Disruption”, Glasgow, Scotland, July, 6th - 8th, 2021
Duehr, K.; Schiele, A.; Mueller, H.; Kopp, D.; Hofelich, M.; Albers, A.
2021. The ISPIM Innovation Conference – Innovating Our Common Future, Berlin, Germany on 20-23 June 2021
Kempf, C.; Klippert, M.; Sadic, E.; Albers, A.
2021. R&D Management Conference 2021 “Innovation in an Era of Disruption”, Glasgow, Scotland, July, 6th - 8th, 2021
Zimmermann, V.; Kempf, C.; Lutz, S.; Bursac, N.; Albers, A.
2021. R&D Management Conference 2021 “Innovation in an Era of Disruption” July, 6th - 8th, 2021, Glasgow, Scotland
Zimmermann, V.; Kempf, C.; Hartmann, L.; Bursac, N.; Albers, A.
2021. EEE 2021 - Entwerfen Entwickeln Erleben in Produktentwicklung und Design 2021. Hrsg.: R. Stelzer, TUDpress
Heimicke, J.; Dühr, K.; Krüger, M.; Ng, G.-L.; Albers, A.
2021. Procedia CIRP, 100, 786–791. doi:10.1016/j.procir.2021.05.043
Duehr, K.; Kavakli, E.; Albers, A.
2021. Procedia CIRP, 100, 750–755. doi:10.1016/j.procir.2021.05.049
Duehr, K.; Hirsch, M.; Albers, A.; Bursac, N.
2020. Proceedings of the Design Society, 1, 541–550. doi:10.1017/dsd.2020.35
Wilmsen, M.; Gericke, K.; Jäckle, M.; Albers, A.
2020. Proceedings of the Design Society, 1, 1175–1184. doi:10.1017/dsd.2020.301
Duehr, K.; Nix, B.; Albers, A.
2020. Nachhaltige Produktentwicklung : KT 2020 : 18. Gemeinsames Kolloquium Konstruktionstechnik : am 1. und 2. Oktober 2020 in Duisburg : Tagungsband. Hrsg.: B. Corves, 221–232. doi:10.17185/duepublico/73094
Klippert, M.; Marthaler, F.; Spadinger, M.; Albers, A.
2020. Procedia CIRP, 91, 80–86. doi:10.1016/j.procir.2020.02.152
Albers, A.; Weissenberger-Eibl, M. A.; Duehr, K.; Zech, K.; Seus, F.
2020. Procedia CIRP, 91, 415–420. doi:10.1016/j.procir.2019.11.007
Albers, A.; Fahl, J.; Hirschter, T.; Haag, S.; Hünemeyer, S.; Staiger, T.
2020. 6th IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering (ISSE) 2020, October 12 - November 12 (virtual conference), 2020, Vienna, Austria
Albers, A.; Kempf, C.; Renz, R.; Spadinger, M.; Stempniewski, L.; Manny, A.
2020. Betonwerk international, (3), 27
Niever, M.; Brandstetter, C.; Hahn, C.; Duehr, K.; Albers, A.
2020. Digital Proceedings of TMCE 2020 : 11-15 May, 2020, Dublin, Ireland / edited by I. Horváth and G. Keenaghan, 431–444, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Rapp, S.; Altner, M.; Albers, A.
2020. Proceedings of the Design Society: DESIGN Conference, 1, 677–686. doi:10.1017/dsd.2020.292
Heimicke, J.; Niever, M.; Zimmermann, V.; Klippert, M.; Marthaler, F.; Albers, A.
2019. Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design, 1 (1), 2199–2208. doi:10.1017/dsi.2019.226
Albers, A.; Heimicke, J.; Spadinger, M.; Degner, N.; Duehr, K.
2019. Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design, 1 (1), 1843–1852. doi:10.1017/dsi.2019.190
Heimicke, J.; Zimmermann, V.; Klippert, M.; Spadinger, M.; Albers, A.
2019. Proceedings of Entwerfen - Entwickeln - Erleben. Produktentwicklung und Design 2019, Dresden, 27.-28. Juni 2019. Hrsg.: R.H. Stelzer, 165–180, TUDpress
Duehr, K.; Kopp, D.; Walter, B.; Spadinger, M.; Albers, A.
2019. Proceedings of Entwerfen - Entwickeln - Erleben. Produktentwicklung und Design 2019, Dresden, 27.-28. Juni 2019. Hrsg.: R.H. Stelzer, 309–326, TUDpress
Reinemann, J.; Hirschter, T.; Fahl, J.; Hünemeyer, S.; Albers, A.
2019. R&D Management Conference 2019, Paris, F, June 17-21, 2019, 10
Albers, A.; Hirschter, T.; Fahl, J.; Reinemann, J.; Spadinger, M.; Hünemeyer, S.; Heimicke, J.
2019. 29th CIRP Design Conference - Open Design and Design as exponential technology, Póvoa de Varzim, P, May 8-10, 2019
Niever, M.; Richter, T.; Duehr, K.; Wilmsen, M.; Lanz, L.; Walter, B.; Alber, A.; Hahn, C.
2018. Atiner’s Conference Paper Series, ENGEDU 201 8–2 542
Walter, B.; Duehr, K.; Bursac, N.; Albers, A.
2018. Proceedings of the TMCE 2018, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, E, May 7-11, 2018
Walter, B.; Klippert, M.; Kunz, M.; Albers, A.; Reiß, N.
2017. 15. Gemeinsames Kolloquium Konstruktionstechnik: Interdisziplinäre Produktentwicklung, Duisburg, 05.10. – 06.10.2017. Hrsg.: K. Brökel, 267–276, Universitätsbiblithek. doi:10.17185/duepublico/44616