Congratulations Yan Zhang, Licentiate in Mechanical Engineering!

Yan Zhang presented his licentiate thesis entitled “Value co-creation for sustainable product service system design” in front of a crowd of local audience and online listeners.

Yan made a popular presentation of the background of his research and the findings up until this point, where the servitization of industry is a driving force for digitalisation and value creation for the manufacturing firm. The thesis consists of a summary part and thre individual research publications and the presentation of the thesis landed in a summary of his findings. Yan has been working within applied research projects at BTH like MD3S and with companies as Volvo Construction Equipment, Volkswagen while being industrial PhD candidate at his company in Shanghai, China.

Opponent for the day was Senior Technical Advisor Kent R. Johansson of Scania Group.

More info on the event here.