Agile Development of a Microtiter Plate in an Interdisciplinary Project Team

• Published in: Proceedings of the International Design Society Vol. 1; no. 1; pp. 2139 - 2148
• Main Authors: Goevert, Kristin, Schweigert-Recksiek, Sebastian, Tariq, Bilal, Krischer, Lukas, Lindemann, Udo
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.07.2019
• Subjects: Biocompatibility; Collaboration; Product development
• ISSN: 2220-4342; 2223-7941; 2220-4334; 2220-4342
• DOI: 10.1017/dsi.2019.220

The industry is currently changing rapidly. Both customers and employees are focusing much more on their own needs. On the one hand, this requires individualized products and, on the other hand, development processes need to be aligned not only more efficiently but also more closely to the needs of employees. Agile development combines these two characteristics and the second point can be further improved through analyses for collaboration. This is not only necessary for consumer products, but also in medical technology, more and more individualized solutions are required to better help patients. This is also the case with the examination of cells using micro titer plates, which is the subject of this project. Due to the interaction of research activities both on the process and on the product side, this paper presents research results regarding agile product development and collaboration analysis of physical products on the one hand and research results regarding additive and biocompatible production of microtitration plates on the other hand.