Product Life-cycle engineering concepts and methods (Design for the life-cycle, Life-cycle analysis, Through-life aspects with feedbacks from users and services, Knowledge Lifecycle Management and long-term knowledge sustainment, Product-Service systems)
Patents as a ressource for Creative and Inventive Design.
Knowledge management for Creative and Inventive Design.
Rapid product development and reverse engineering.
New organizational issues within Product Lifecycle Engineering
Infrastructure and environment (support tools, collaboration environments and platforms, virtual and simulation environment, interoperability and security issues)