NordDesign 2026
August 11-14, 2026 | Tampere, Finland
Conference Agenda
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Daily Overview |
| 8:00am - 5:30pm |
Registration and Info Desk Location: Main Entrance Lobby, City Centre Campus |
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| 9:00am - 9:20am |
W Opening: Opening session Location: Main Auditorium, A210, City Center Campus Chair: Prof. Tero Juuti, Tampere University, Finland Chair: Prof. Ola Isaksson, Chalmers university of technology, Sweden |
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| 9:20am - 10:10am |
W1 - Plenary Session 1: Evolution of Naval Architecture - towards reconfigurable ships | CTO Mika Laurilehto, RMC Oy Location: Main Auditorium, A210, City Center Campus Chair: Prof. Tero Juuti, Tampere University, Finland |
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| 10:10am - 10:30am |
Coffee Break Location: Main Auditorium Foyer, City Centre Campus |
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| 10:30am - 12:10pm |
W2A: Design Methods and Tools 1 Location: A3 Auditorium (A207) City Centre Campus Chair: Prof. Martin Steinert, Martin Steinert, Norway TOWARDS AN ONTOLOGY FOR ENCAPSULATION ARCHITECTURE DESIGN RATIONALE IN HIGH VALUE LOW VOLUME CAPITAL GOODS CONTEXT Tampere University, Finland 10:50am - 11:10am DESIGNING FOR CLINICAL UNDERSTANDING: THERAPIST-FOCUSED VISUALIZATION DESIGN FOR UPPER-LIMB REHABILITATION 1: Centre for Applied Computing, University of Oulu, Finland; 2: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Japan 11:10am - 11:30am MAPPING THE FLOW: A DESIGN BY ANALOGY APPROACH TO WATER PIPELINE INSPECTION BY TRANSFERRING FUNCTIONALITY FROM OIL & GAS PIPELINE INSPECTION Norwegian Univeristy of Science and Technology, Norway 11:30am - 11:50am DESIGN CARD OF PATTERN LANGUAGE FOR SOCIAL SERVICE DESIGN: CASE STUDY OF INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING IN JAPAN Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan |
W2B: Strategy, Design and Engineering 1 Location: A4 Auditorium (A206) City Centre Campus Chair: Prof. Tero Juuti, Tampere University, Finland TECHNICAL-ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT: A CONCEPT EVALUATION METHOD FOR PRODUCT-SERVICE SYSTEMS IN DEEP DRILLING INDUSTRY 1: Institut for Product Development; 2: Baker Hughes INTEQ GmbH 10:50am - 11:10am OUTGROWING PRODUCTION ARCHITECTURE: CASE-BASED INSIGHTS INTO DIAGNOSTICS OF STRATEGIC MISFIT Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 11:10am - 11:30am USING DEDUCTIVE CASE STUDY ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY AND REDUCE COGNITIVE CHALLENGES IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT 1: ISEM - Institute for Smart Engineering and Machine Elements, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany; 2: IPEK - Institute of Product Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany 11:30am - 11:50am SYNERGIES AND FRICTIONS BETWEEN AGILE PRINCIPLES AND THE TRANSITION TOWARD MAKE-TO-ORDER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PHYSICAL PRODUCTS University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany |
W2C: Design + AI, 1 Location: A1 Auditorium (A209) City Centre Campus Chair: Dr. Sohail Ahmed Soomro, University of Oulu, Finland, Finland THE DOUBLE SEMANTIC GAP: NAVIGATING THE CULTURAL PARADIGM SHIFT IN AI- ASSISTED DESIGN INVESTIGATING AESTHETIC APHASIA AND EXPERTISE REVERSAL IN HIGH-CONTEXT MOOD BOARD CREATION 1: Tainan University of Technology, Taiwan; 2: Kun Shan University ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: PERSPECTIVES FROM ACADEMIA AND INDUSTRY 1: Dresden University of Technology, Germany; 2: MAN Truck & Bus SE, Germany THE INFLUENCE OF AI SUPPORT ON DESIGN REASONING IN SYNCHRONOUS COLLABORATIVE CAD ACTIVITY 1: University of Zagreb Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Croatia; 2: Luleå University of Technology, Sweden FORMALIZING MACHINING FEATURE KNOWLEDGE FOR FEATURE-BASED DESIGN AUTOMATION IN CAD 1: Dresden University of Technology, Germany; 2: MAN Truck & Bus SE; 3: Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany |
| 12:10pm - 1:00pm |
Lunch Break Location: YO restaurant, Juvenes City Centre Campus |
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| 1:00pm - 2:30pm |
W3A: Design Methods and Tools, 2 Location: A3 Auditorium (A207) City Centre Campus Chair: Prof. Claudia Eckert, Open University, United Kingdom EXTENDING THE VALUE PROPOSITION CANVAS TO SUPPORT CUSTOMER-CENTRIC TRANSITION IN A B2B2C TECHNOLOGY ORGANIZATION 1: University of Eastern Finland; 2: F-Secure Corporation 1:20pm - 1:40pm TEXT-TO-ONTOLOGY IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: LEVERAGING NLP AND LLM FOR SEMANTIC REQUIREMENTS INTEGRATION Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany 1:40pm - 2:00pm TOCAD: 3D CAD REVERSE ENGINEERING THROUGH TREE SEARCH ALGORITHMS AND MULTIMODAL LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS 1: Siemens Technology, Germany; 2: Engineering Design, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
W3B: Strategy, Design and Engineering, 2 Location: A4 Auditorium (A206) City Centre Campus Chair: Prof. Kristina Säfsten, Jönköping University, Sweden SIMULATION-BASED DECISION SUPPORT TOOL FOR THE ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF CIRCULAR BUSINESS MODELS 1: University of Paderborn, Germany; 2: AI Marketplace, Paderborn, Germany; 3: Fraunhofer-Institute for Mechatronic Systems Design IEM, Paderborn, Germany 1:20pm - 1:40pm SUPPORTING EARLY-STAGE DESIGN DECISIONS THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY SCREENING IN REMANUFACTURING[ Technical University of Denmark, DTU Construct, Koppels Allé Building 402, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark 1:40pm - 2:00pm ESCAPE TOGETHER: EXPLORING MULTIPLAYER PRESENCE AND ASYMMETRIC COLLABORATION IN VR PUZZLE GAMES University of Lapland, Finland 2:00pm - 2:20pm PARAMETRIC PROCESS FOR MODULAR AND ADAPTIVE PORE DESIGN OF LARGE-AREA CRANIAL IMPLANTS 1: Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany; 2: INNOTERE GmbH, Radebeul, Germany |
W3C: Design + AI, 2 Location: A1 Auditorium (A209) City Centre Campus Chair: Eric Coatanea, Tampere University, Finland ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR VARIANT-RICH PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: SUPPORTING CONFIGURATION WITH RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS AND LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Helmut Schmidt University, Germany 1:20pm - 1:40pm AI IDEA SHEETS AS BOUNDARY OBJECTS IN EARLY-STAGE INTERDISCIPLINARY AI SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF DOMAIN EXPERT USAGE University of Stuttgart, Germany 1:40pm - 2:00pm AGENT-BASED NEGOTIATION FOR DFX: MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS FOR THE CONSENSUAL RESOLUTION OF CONFLICTING REQUIREMENTS Institute for Product Development, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany 2:00pm - 2:20pm AN EVENT-DRIVEN, AGENT-BASED REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMAN-AI-COLLABORATION IN MBSE 1: Fraunhofer IEM, Germany; 2: University Paderborn - HNI, Germany 2:20pm - 2:40pm GENERATIVE AI IN COLLABORATIVE IDEATION: EFFECTS ON DESIGN FIXATION AND DIVERGENCE 1: Centre for Applied Computing, University of Oulu, Finland; 2: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Japan |
| 2:30pm - 3:00pm |
Coffee Break Location: Main Auditorium Foyer, City Centre Campus |
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| 3:00pm - 4:40pm |
W4A: Design Methods and Tools, 3 Location: A3 Auditorium (A207) City Centre Campus Chair: Dr. Paraskeva Wlazlak, Jönköping University, Sweden WEAVING KNOWLEDGE, WEAVING FUTURES: A CO-CREATIVE APPROACH TO REVITALIZING INDIGENOUS CRAFT THROUGH DESIGN EDUCATION National United University, Taiwan 3:20pm - 3:40pm 5P SUSTAINABILITY PROFILE AN ATTEMPT TO GAUGE DESIGN IMPACT 1: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India; 2: Delhi Technological University 3:40pm - 4:00pm FRAMEWORK FOR USING VIRTUAL REALITY AS A TOOL IN SERVICE DESIGN 1: University of Lapland, Finland; 2: Tampere University 4:00pm - 4:20pm PROOF OF PERFORMANCE FOR REMOTE OPERATIONS SERVICES OF MECHATRONIC SYSTEMS 1: ISEM - Institute for Smart Engineering and Machine Elements, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany; 2: TRUMPF SE + Co. KG |
W4B: Strategy, Design and Engineering, 2 Location: A4 Auditorium (A206) City Centre Campus Chair: Prof. Amy OKeefe, Northwestern University, United States of America IPDEXO: TOWARDS AN IPD FRAMEWORK FOR DESIGNING SMART EXOSKELETONS AS SOCIO-TECHNICAL SYSTEMS FOR INDUSTRY 5.0 1: Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, University of Malta, Malta; 2: Department of Technology & Entrepreneurship Education, University of Malta, Malta 3:20pm - 3:40pm MATURITY MODEL FOR BIOINTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Institute for Engineering Design and Industrial Design, University of Stuttgart, Germany 3:40pm - 4:00pm SPEEDING UP AUTOMOTIVE DEVELOPMENT: AN END-TO-END VIEW ON PROCESS OPTIMIZATION TACKLING CURRENT PROBLEMS IN HV-WIRING HARNESS DEVELOPMENT IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES 1: Mercedes-Benz AG, Germany; 2: Technische Universität Dresden, Germany 4:00pm - 4:20pm LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL-SUPPORTED APPROACH FOR REQUIREMENTS EXTRACTION FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES OF REFERENCE SYSTEM ELEMENTS 1: ISEM – Institute for Smart Engineering and Machine Elements, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany; 2: TRUMPF SE + Co. KG |
W4C: Design + AI, 3 Location: A1 Auditorium (A209) City Centre Campus Chair: Dr. Øystein Bjelland, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway UTILISATION OF PRODUCTION FEEDBACK FOR ML-BASED GEOMETRIC DEVIATION PREDICTION Fraunhofer IPK, Germany 3:20pm - 3:40pm EARLY EXPLORATION AND BENCHMARKING OF SOFT GRIPPER DESIGNS FOR ROBOTIC GRASPING OF FISH 1: Dept. of ICT and Natural Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway; 2: Dept. of Ocean Operations and Civil Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway; 3: Optimar AS, Norway 3:40pm - 4:00pm EXPLORING DOMINANT DESIGNS AND VARIANTS THROUGH IMAGE PROCESSING AND VISION-LANGUAGE MODELS 1: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Industriale, University of Pisa; 2: Coesia, Italy |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
WS3: PhD Forum Location: A1 Auditorium (A209) City Centre Campus Chair: Prof. Ola Isaksson, Chalmers university of technology, Sweden Chair: Prof. Anna Öhrwall Rönnbäck, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden Chair: Prof. Claudia Eckert, Open University, United Kingdom PhD Forum is organised by Ola Isaksson, Claudia Eckert and Anna Örwall-Rönnback and it is based on the concept by Massimo Panarotto. |
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| 7:00pm - 8:30pm |
Reception: Tampere City Reception Location: Old City Hall, Tampere City Centre Chair: Prof. Tero Juuti, Tampere University, Finland |
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