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Alex Alblas is an Assistant Professor of Product and Process Innovation in the Innovation, Technology Entrepreneurship & Marketing (ITEM) group of the School of Industrial Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology. Alex’s research activity focused on how organizations can successfully manage the invention, development and launch of new products. His ambition is to contribute to the challenges and mechanisms related to enhancing and speeding up learning curves in new product development. In this quest he is currently investigating the learning curve effects of design change, caused by design iteration, design debugging, and evolving insights, and the resulting process changes.
He has a special interest in the operational practices of new product development that lead to enhanced performance. In one research project he investigates the learning mechanisms in which agile operations and iterative product development can lead to performance improvement. In another big industry funded research project, of which Alex is the project leader, he investigates together with a team of researchers the practices in which product development and customer service processes enable service improvements.
Academic background
Alex Alblas received his PhD in Innovation Management from the University of Groningen, in 2011, and an MSc in Industrial Engineering and a BSc in Technology Management from the same University (2006). He has previously worked as a Process Improvement Specialist with ASML, where he was involved in a challenging project about learning curve improvement in the new product introduction phase. At the University of Groningen, he worked as a researcher and advisor in the ‘Deployment of Sustainability Metrics (DoSyM)’ project. The objective of this is to respond to the challenges companies face in selecting and then embedding sustainability metrics in new product development projects. The project focuses on supply chain and innovation network issues when using these metrics.
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Lithography
Engineering & Materials Science
Machinery
Engineering & Materials Science
Product development
Engineering & Materials Science
Unified Modeling Language
Engineering & Materials Science
Product design
Engineering & Materials Science
Sustainable development
Engineering & Materials Science
Industry
Engineering & Materials Science
New product development
Business & Economics
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Projects 2017 2021
- 1 Active
ASML 2.0
Alblas, A., Alblas, A., Zijlstra, F., Benckhuijsen - Mertens, P., Vereggen - Tielemans, T., Vereggen - Tielemans, T., van Broeckhoven, B. & Sens, F.
1/01/17 → 14/06/21
Project: Research direct
Research Output 2006 2018
The resilient organization: the impact of circular management on organizational performance
van den Berg, J., Alblas, A. A., Le Blanc, P. M. & Romme, A. G. L., 2018, Proceedings of the 2018 LAEMOS Conference: Organizing for Resilience. LAM-409Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
Failure-based learning in concurrent product innovation
Alblas, A. A., Gelper, S. E. C. & Langerak, F., 2017, Proceedings of the XXIII Organization Science Winter Conference.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
Insight driven design : balancing production speed and development learning in smart industries
Alblas, A. A., Zwaans, F. & Schepens, S., Jan 2017, Eindhoven: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Academic
Design resilience in the fuzzy front end (FFE) context : an empirical examination
Alblas, A. A. & Jayaram, J., 17 Nov 2015, In : International Journal of Production Research. 53, 22, p. 6820-6838 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Innovation
Fuzzy front end
Resilience
Contextual effects
Modularity
Managing product variety in turbulent environments
Alblas, A. A. & Jayaram, J., 2015, POMS 26th Annual Conference, 8-11 May 2015, Washington D.C..Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic
Product design
Lithography
Machinery
Courses
Student theses
Accelerating the learning curve at ASML: the effect of increased opportunities to learn
Author: de Kadt, N., 31 Dec 2015Supervisor: Peeters, T. (Supervisor 1), Langerak, F. (Supervisor 2) & Alblas, A. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
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Circular organizing and organizational resilience in the home care sector
Author: van Hamburg, S., 31 Oct 2017Supervisor: Romme, A. (Supervisor 1), Alblas, A. (Supervisor 2) & Le Blanc, P. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
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Continuous improvement for autonomous development teams: a science-based design research on the continuous improvement process of CM
Author: Damen, O., 28 Feb 2019Supervisor: Eling, K. (Supervisor 1) & Alblas, A. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
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Cross-functional collaboration in the fuzzy front-end
Author: Gravesteijn, W., 30 Nov 2016Supervisor: Langerak, F. (Supervisor 1), Alblas, A. (Supervisor 2) & Eling, K. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
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Customer acceptance of interactive recommendation agents: the personalization-privacy paradox, perceived control and the influence of human-like appearance
Author: Koppenol, I., 21 Dec 2018Supervisor: Schepers, J. (Supervisor 1), Walrave, B. (Supervisor 2) & Alblas, A. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
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