2026 Kevin Otto: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	39	7542	7278	49	45	176	9028

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Engineering and Technology

7542

7278

176

9028

Engineering and Technology

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9028

World Ranking

7542

National Ranking

Overview

Kevin Otto is affiliated with Aalto University in Finland and has focused their research primarily in the field of Engineering. Their work spans several subfields including Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Management of Technology and Innovation, Automotive Engineering, and Strategy and Management.

The research topics covered in their publications include:

Manufacturing Process and Optimization
Product Development and Customization
Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes
Design Education and Practice
Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies
Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design

Kevin Otto has published articles in several well-known venues, with the most frequent being:

Journal of Mechanical Design
International Journal of Metalcasting
SSRN Electronic Journal
Production Planning & Control
International Journal of Production Research

Prominent recent papers include:

Industry 4.0 Foundry Data Management and Supervised Machine Learning in Low-Pressure Die Casting Quality Improvement, 2022, International Journal of Metalcasting
How to Use the Levers of Modularity Properly-Linking Modularization to Economic Targets, 2022, Journal of Mechanical Design
Learning curve applications in Industry 4.0: a scoping review, 2022, Production Planning & Control
Sand Casting Implementation of Two-Dimensional Digital Code Direct-Part-Marking Using Additively Manufactured Tags, 2021, International Journal of Metalcasting
A systematic energy-aware scheduling framework for manufacturing factories integrated with renewables, 2024, International Journal of Production Research

Frequent collaborators include:

Katja Hölttä-Otto
Wen Li
Tekin Uyan
Shenal Dilanjaya Hewa Witharanage
Dieter Krause

Best Publications

Product Design: Techniques in Reverse Engineering and New Product Development

Kevin N. Otto;Kristin L. Wood

1349
Citations
Imprecision in Engineering Design

E. K. Antonsson;Kevin Otto

681
Citations
Modular product architecture

Jeffrey B Dahmus;Javier P Gonzalez-Zugasti;Kevin N Otto

535
Citations
Product Evolution: A Reverse Engineering and Redesign Methodology

Kevin N. Otto;Kristin L. Wood

407
Citations
Design prototyping methods: state of the art in strategies, techniques, and guidelines

Bradley Camburn;Vimal Viswanathan;Julie S. Linsey;David Anderson

359
Citations
A Method for Architecting Product Platforms

Javier P. Gonzalez-Zugasti;Kevin N. Otto;John D. Baker

286
Citations
Trade-off strategies in engineering design

Kevin N. Otto;Erik K. Antonsson

249
Citations
Reverse Engineering and Redesign: Courses to Incrementally and Systematically Teach Design

Kristin L. Wood;Daniel Jensen;Joseph Bezdek;Kevin N. Otto

231
Citations
Modular Platform-Based Product Family Design

Javier P. Gonzalez-Zugasti;Kevin N. Otto

224
Citations
Extensions to the Taguchi method of product design

Kevin N. Otto;Erik K. Antonsson

210
Citations
Assessing value in platformed product family design

Javier P. Gonzalez-Zugasti;Kevin N. Otto;John D. Baker

206
Citations
Product Architecture Definition Based Upon Customer Demands

Janet S. Yu;Javier P. Gonzalez-Zugasti;Kevin N. Otto

198
Citations
Engineering design calculations with fuzzy parameters

Kristin L. Wood;Kevin N. Otto;Erik K. Antonsson

187
Citations
Fundamental studies in Design-by-Analogy: A focus on domain-knowledge experts and applications to transactional design problems

Diana P. Moreno;Alberto A. Hernández;Maria C. Yang;Kevin N. Otto

184
Citations
Identifying Product Portfolio Architecture Modularity Using Function and Variety Heuristics

Erik J. Zamirowski;Kevin N. Otto

168
Citations
Global Views on Modular Design Research: Linking Alternative Methods to Support Modular Product Family Concept Development

Kevin Otto;Katja Hölttä-Otto;Timothy W. Simpson;Dieter Krause

156
Citations
A comparison of the popular home automation technologies

Chathura Withanage;Rahul Ashok;Chau Yuen;Kevin Otto

139
Citations
Design-by-analogy: experimental evaluation of a functional analogy search methodology for concept generation improvement

Katherine Fu;Katherine Fu;Jeremy Murphy;Maria Yang;Kevin Otto

135
Citations
A Systematic Method for Design Prototyping

Bradley Camburn;Brock Dunlap;Tanmay Gurjar;Christopher Hamon

131
Citations
Incorporating design effort complexity measures in product architectural design and assessment

Katja M.M. Hölttä;Kevin N. Otto

131
Citations
An empirical foundation for product flexibility

P.K. Palani Rajan;Michael Van Wie;Matthew I. Campbell;Kristin L. Wood

127
Citations
Constructing membership functions using interpolation and measurement theory

Joseph E. Chen;Kevin N. Otto

120
Citations