Kevin Otto

Incorporating Field Effects Into Functional Product-System Architecting Methods

Kevin Otto, Katja Holtta-Otto, Roozbeh Sanaei, Kristin L Wood

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL DESIGN

System architecture and modularity decisions are inherent to preliminary concept design. Prior modularity research has considered ..

Impact of Modularity Decisions on a Firm's Economic Objectives

J Hackl, D Krause, K Otto, M Windheim, SK Moon, N Bursac, R Lachmayer

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME

Research in modularization of product families reveals numerous individual cause and effect impacts of modularity on a firm. There..

Additively manufactured tags for cast part traceability using two-dimensional digital code direct-part-marking

T Uyan, K Jalava, J Orkas, K Otto

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Statistical quality control is applied in factories and foundries to identify special cause defects and to identify root causes th..

ROBUSTNESS IMPROVEMENT USING OPEN SOURCE CODE LIBRARIES

J Sanchez, Z Björkman, KN Otto

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the Design Society: DESIGN Conference

Computer tools are commonly used to assess designs. We develop a toolchain using open source code libraries in Python to provide a..

Crowdfunding for Design Innovation: Prediction Model With Critical Factors

Chaoyang Song, Jianxi Luo, Katja Holtta-Otto, Warren Seering, Kevin Otto

Journal article  |  2020  |  IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Computationally efficient model for energy demand prediction of electric city bus in varying operating conditions

Jari Vepsäläinen, Kevin Otto, Antti Lajunen, Kari Tammi

Journal article  |  2019  |  Energy

Using open source code libraries for robust design analysis

K Otto, J Wang, T Uyan

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED

The design of systems today often involves computer simulation to assess performance and design margins. Understanding how variabi..

Model based root cause analysis of manufacturing quality problems using uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis

K Otto, JS Mosqueda

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Diagnosing faulty performance deviations of electromechanical systems can be difficult, given the multitude of components and feat..

PhD research learning in product architecture design

O Sankowski, K Otto, SK Moon, D Krause

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED

The field of design research has been expanding into a wide diverse range of multidisciplinary topics. It takes substantial time f..

The Characteristics of Innovative, Mechanical Products-10 Years Later

Katja Holtta-Otto, Kevin Otto, Chaoyang Song, Jianxi Luo, Timothy Li, Carolyn C Seepersad, Warren Seering

Journal article  |  2018  |  JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL DESIGN

Ten years prior to this paper, innovative mechanical products were analyzed and found to embody multiple innovation characteristic..