STOSIP

STOSIP - Strategic, Tactical and Operational implementation of Sustainability into the Innovation Process

What is it?

STOSIP has the objective to support manufacturing companies to integrate and implement sustainability on strategic, tactical and operational levels.

Current status:

A first protoype for business case simulator for ecodesign.
Self-assessment templates to measure sustainability implementation level.
Process- oriented indicators to support and enhance ecodesign implementation.
A systematic review to summarize research challenges in introducing sustainability in value models.
Descriptive study at VCE including value mapping of New Sustainable Compliant Technologies.
Integrating sustainability in Technology Readiness Level framework.
A literature review to investigate the current state of the art for risk management in relation to a strategic sustainability perspective.
Further development of the sustainability design space and clarification of how it can be applied –for example a method for assessing material criticality has been developed.
A first step to clarify social sustainability and how to use that together with ecological sustainability in product development.

Expected results:

A business case for sustainability implementation in the product innovation process.
A road map from measuring the maturity level for sustainability implementation.
An aproach for how to quantify and visualize the progress of sustainability implementation of different solutions.
To provide engineers with a quantifiable assessment model that makes the value of sustainable innovations explicit
To find a systematic way for how to integrate sustainability in the risk management processes and improve the support tools
How to make the sustainability concept more concrete and clear for companies, concretizing the sustainability design space
To improve the clarification and operationalize social sustainability in the decision support

News

Towards the end of STOSIP: Reflecting on achievements and loading for the next step

The STOSIP team gathered today at BTH, the same spot as for almost three years ago when the project started. In this last physical meeting with all project partners, the group reflected on the all the effort and the thousands of hours that researchers and industry partners have spent to make sustainability tangible and implement it in the organizations. And it was worth it! Processes have been studied and improved, support tools developed, tested and implemented, knowledge has been spread, awareness increased, our understanding of how to promote, integrate and implement sustainability in product development companies increased, and, and, and. The team also looked back at the specific targets for the project that were created when it was planned. In the remaining final weeks of the project, the team will continue their work with both research and practice and build a growing ground for a continuation of the project in the future. “This is an example of a project that […]

2 February 2018

When sustainability is in focus

The goal is to support manufacturing companies to achieve sustainability in their production. And the researchers have been succeessful according to the participating companies. Today, it was time to present what have been achieved in the big sustainability project at BTH. Today, researchers and companies gathered together in the Stosip project (Strategic, Tactical and Operational Implementation of Sustainability into the Innovation Process) at BTH to discuss what have been achieved in the project. – The project aims to support manufacturing companies to integrate and implement sustainability at several levels. We want to support companies to measure sustainability implementation and to see the sustainability impacts of different solutions, says research leader Sophie Hallstedt at BTH. On-site today, representatives of the two companies included in the collaboration were: GKN Aerospace Engine Systems and Volvo Construction Equipment, and both witnessed a fruitful collaboration with the BTH sustainability researchers. – At GKN, we are doing a lot about sustainability activities, but thanks to our […]

1 February 2018

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Publications

Bertoni, M. (2017), “Introducing sustainability in value models to support design decision making: A systematic review”, Sustainability, Vol. 9 No. 6, available at:https://doi.org/10.3390/su9060994.
Bertoni, M., Rondini, A. and Pezzotta, G. (2017), “A Systematic Review of Value Metrics for PSS Design”, Procedia CIRP, Vol. 64, The Author(s), pp. 289–294.
Hallstedt, S., Isaksson, O., Wallin, J. and Zetterlund, H. (2016), “Material criticality method – Product vulnerability from a sustainable business perspective”, Proceedings of International Design Conference, DESIGN, Vol. DS 84, pp. 221–230.
Hallstedt, S. and Pigosso, D. (2017), “Sustainability integration in a technology readiness assessment framework”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED, Vol. 5, pp. 229–238.
Hallstedt, S. (2015), “How To Define a Sustainability Design Space”, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 15), pp. 1–10.
Hallstedt, S.I. (2017), “Sustainability criteria and sustainability compliance index for decision support in product development”, Journal of Cleaner Production, Elsevier Ltd, Vol. 140, pp. 251–266.
Hallstedt, S.I., Bertoni, M. and Isaksson, O. (2015), “Assessing sustainability and value of manufacturing processes: A case in the aerospace industry”, Journal of Cleaner Production, Elsevier Ltd, Vol. 108, pp. 169–182.
Hallstedt, S.I. and Isaksson, O. (2017), “Material criticality assessment in early phases of sustainable product development”, Journal of Cleaner Production, Elsevier Ltd, Vol. 161, pp. 40–52.
Jaghbeer, Y., Hallstedt, S.I., Larsson, T. and Wall, J. (2017), “Exploration of Simulation-Driven Support Tools for Sustainable Product Development”, Procedia CIRP, Vol. 64, The Author(s), pp. 271–276.
Jaghbeer, Y., Motyka, Y. and Hallstedt, S. (2017), “A process for designing lean-and sustainable production”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED, Vol. 1, pp. 51–60.
Mesquita, P.L., Broman, G.I. and Hallstedt, S. (2016), “Analyzing Social LCA approaches through the lens of Strategic Sustainable Development”, XXVII ISPIM Innovation Conference, Porto, Portugal, 19-22 June 2016, available at: www.ispim.org.
Mesquita, P.L., Hallstedt, S.I., Broman, G.I. and Isaksson, O. (2016), “An Introductory Approach To Concretize Social Sustainability for Sustainable Manufacturing”, Proceedings of TMCE, Aix-En-Provence, France, 9-13 May 2016, pp. 779–792.
Rodrigues, V.P., Pigosso, D.C.A. and Mcaloone, T.C. (2018), “Linking Ecodesign Capabilities to Corporate Performance: A Simulation-Ba”, Submitted to the 15th International Design Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 18-24 May 2018.
Rodrigues, V.P., Morioka, S., Pigosso, D., Carvalho, M. and McAloone, T. (2016), “Exploring the dynamic and complex integration of sustainability performance measurement into product development”, Proceedings of International Design Conference, DESIGN, Vol. DS 84, pp. 433–442.
Rodrigues, V.P., Pigossom, D. and McAloone, T. (2016), “Process-oriented performance indicators for measuring ecodesign management practices”, Proceedings of International Design Conference, DESIGN, Vol. DS 84, pp. 443–452.
Rodrigues, V., Pigosso, D. and McAloone, T. (2017), “Building a business case for ecodesign implementation: A system dynamics approach”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED, Vol. 1, pp. 179–188.
Rodrigues, V.P., Pigosso, D.C.A. and McAloone, T.C. (2016), “Process-related key performance indicators for measuring sustainability performance of ecodesign implementation into product development”, Journal of Cleaner Production, Elsevier Ltd, Vol. 139, pp. 416–428.
Rodrigues, V.P., Pigosso, D.C.A. and McAloone, T.C. (2017), “Measuring the implementation of ecodesign management practices: A review and consolidation of process-oriented performance indicators”, Journal of Cleaner Production, Elsevier Ltd, Vol. 156, pp. 293–309.
Rodrigues, V.P., Pigosso, D.C.A. and McAloone, T.C. (2017), “Simulation-Based Business Case for PSS: A System Dynamics Framework”, Procedia CIRP, Vol. 64, pp. 283–288.
Schulte, J. and Hallstedt, S.I. (2018), “Sustainability Risk Management for Product Innovation”, Submitted to the 15th International Design Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 18-24 May 2018.
Schulte, J. and Hallstedt, S.I. (2018), “Workshop Method for Early Sustainable Product Development”, Submitted to the 15th International Design Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 18-24 May 2018.
Schulte, J. and Hallstedt, S.I. (2017), “Challenges for Integrating Sustainability in Risk Management – Current State of Research”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED, available at:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1538-7836.2010.04126.x.
Schulte, J. and Hallstedt, S.I. (2017), “Challenges and Preconditions to Build Capabilities for Sustainable Product Design”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED.
Watz, M. and Hallstedt, S.I. (2018), “Sustainability in Product Requirements”, Submitted to the 15th International Design Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 18-24 May 2018.
Villamil, C., Nylander, J.W., Hallstedt, S.I., Schulte, J. and Watz, M. (2018), “Additive Manufacturing from a Strategic Sustainability Perspective”, Submitted to the 15th International Design Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 18-24 May 2018.
Zetterlund, H., Hallstedt, S. and Broman, G. (2016), “Implementation Potential of Sustainability-oriented Decision Support in Product Development”, Procedia CIRP, Vol. 50, The Author(s), pp. 287–292.

Partners

KKS

GKN Aerospace

Volvo Construction Equipment

Technical University of Denmark

Members

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Sophie Hallstedt
Since 2013, I am leading the research track Sustainable Product Development – Sustainability Integration in Conceptual Design within the profile project at BTH called Model Driven Development and Decision Support.

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Project-member-Jesko

Jesko Schulte
Jesko is a PhD student at the Department for Strategic Sustainable Development at Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH). He has a background in environmental science and philosophy. Main area of research is how a sustainability perspective can be integrated into risk management processes and related decision support tools.

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Patricia Lagun Mesquita

Patricia Lagun Mesquita is a PhD student at the Strategic Sustainable Development department at the Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden. Her research focuses on how to strategically integrate a social sustainability perspective into the product innovation process. She has been developing her empirical work with manufacturing companies in the aerospace and construction equipment industries. Patricia has a B.A. in Social Sciences with a major in Anthropology from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a Master’s in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability from BTH. Prior to her PhD, Patricia worked for several years with supporting companies in integrating sustainability thinking into their practices.

Marco

Marco Bertoni
Marco Bertoni is Associate Professor (docent) at Blekinge Institute of Technology, researching in the domain of Product Innovation, Value Driven Design and Engineering Knowledge Management. His focus lies in the early phases of product and service design, and his objective is to understand how knowledge from the product lifecycle can be modelled to support decision making activities.

Vinicius

Vinícius Picanço Rodrigues
Vinícius is a PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), focusing on sustainability performance measurement for ecodesign implementation. He received a B.Eng. in Production Engineering and M.Sc. in Operations Research from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil, and a Specialization Certificate in Logistics and Supply Chain Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. He holds over 8 years of experience spanning from research and non-profit management to teaching and consultancy.

Matilda Watz

Matilda is a PhD student at the Department of Strategic Sustainable Development at Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH). Her research interests considers relationships between sustainability criteria and requirements, and how these can be used and connected to guide sustainable concept selection and trade-off management. Matilda has a B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering and a M.Sc. in Industrial Ecology.

Carolina Villamil

Carolina is a PhD student at the Department of Strategic Sustainable Development at Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH). Her research is related to the definition of the sustainable product portfolio, how to implement sustainability in the early stages of the product development process and to guide the evaluation criteria of the element that will be part of a company´s portfolio. She is a Colombian industrial designer interested in encouraging the development of Product Service System PSS and engaging the co-creation and collaboration between stakeholders with a sustainability perspective. Carolina has a M.Sc. in Sustainable Product Service System Innovation.