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Tomohiko Sakao

Tomohiko Sakao

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
40
Citations
6832
World Ranking
1681
National Ranking
24

Overview

Tomohiko Sakao is a researcher affiliated with Linköping University in Sweden, specializing in the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields including Marketing, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management, and Mechanical Engineering.

They have contributed extensively to topics related to Service and Product Innovation, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Product Development and Customization, Digital Transformation in Industry, Design Education and Practice, Environmental Sustainability in Business, and Sustainable Industrial Ecology.

Tomohiko Sakao's recent publications include the following papers:

  • A Multi-Criteria Evaluation Method of Product-Level Circularity Strategies, 2020, Sustainability
  • Interactions of governmental policies and business models for a circular economy: A systematic literature review, 2022, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Designing value-driven solutions: The evolution of industrial product-service systems, 2022, CIRP Annals
  • Challenges and solutions in condition-based maintenance implementation - A multiple case study, 2021, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Using life cycle costing (LCC) to select circular measures: A discussion and practical approach, 2020, Resources Conservation and Recycling

Frequent co-authors appearing in their body of research include:

  • Abhijna Neramballi
  • Johannes Matschewsky
  • Marianna Lena Kambanou
  • Sergio A. Brambila-Macias
  • Daniel Brissaud

The primary venues for Tomohiko Sakao's publications are:

  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Sustainability
  • Resources Conservation and Recycling
  • Frontiers in Sustainability
  • Procedia CIRP

Best Publications

  • Service Engineering: a novel engineering discipline for producers to increase value combining service and product

    Tomohiko Sakao;Yoshiki Shimomura

  • A comprehensive review of big data analytics throughout product lifecycle to support sustainable smart manufacturing: A framework, challenges and future research directions

    Shan Ren;Yingfeng Zhang;Yang Liu;Yang Liu;Tomohiko Sakao

  • Applying Quality Function Deployment to environmentally conscious design

    Keijiro Masui;Tomohiko Sakao;Mitsuru Kobayashi;Atsushi Inaba

  • Environmental and economic benefits of Integrated Product Service Offerings quantified with real business cases

    Mattias Lindahl;Erik Sundin;Tomohiko Sakao

  • A QFD-centred design methodology for environmentally conscious product design

    Tomohiko Sakao

  • A framework for Big Data driven product lifecycle management

    Yingfeng Zhang;Shan Ren;Yang Liu;Yang Liu;Tomohiko Sakao

  • A customization-oriented framework for design of sustainable product/service system

    Wenyan Song;Tomohiko Sakao

  • Modeling design objects in CAD system for Service/Product Engineering

    Tomohiko Sakao;Yoshiki Shimomura;Erik Sundin;Mica Comstock

  • Framing research for service orientation of manufacturers through PSS approaches

    Tomohiko Sakao;Gunilla Ölundh Sandström;Detlef Matzen

  • Introduction to product/service-system design

    Tomohiko Sakao;Mattias Lindahl

  • Service CAD system to integrate product and human activity for total value

    Tatsunori Hara;Tamio Arai;Yoshiki Shimomura;Tomohiko Sakao

  • Addressing Uncertainty of PSS for Value-Chain Oriented Service Development

    Tomohiko Sakao;Veselin Panshef;Edgar Dörsam

  • Designing and providing integrated product-service systems – challenges, opportunities and solutions resulting from prescriptive approaches in two industrial companies

    Johannes Matschewsky;Marianna Lena Kambanou;Tomohiko Sakao

  • Integrating QFD for product-service systems with the Kano model and fuzzy AHP

    Nicolas Haber;Mario Fargnoli;Tomohiko Sakao

  • New perspectives for green and sustainable chemistry and engineering: Approaches from sustainable resource and energy use, management, and transformation

    Francisco J. Lozano;Rodrigo Lozano;Paulo Freire;Concepción Jiménez-Gonzalez

  • Circular business models and governmental policies: A systematic literature review

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  • Designing value-driven solutions: The evolution of industrial product-service systems

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  • A value based evaluation method for Product/Service System using design information

    Tomohiko Sakao;Mattias Lindahl

  • A Multi-Criteria Evaluation Method of Product-Level Circularity Strategies

    Yohannes A. Alamerew;Marianna Lena Kambanou;Tomohiko Sakao;Daniel Brissaud

  • Quality function deployment for environment: QFDE (1st report)-a methodology in early stage of DfE

    K. Masui;T. Sakao;A. Inaba

  • Creating service modules for customising product/service systems by extending DSM

    Tomohiko Sakao;Wenyan Song;Johannes Matschewsky

  • Components of business concepts for the diffusion of large scaled environmental technology systems

    Wisdom Kanda;Tomohiko Sakao;Olof Hjelm

  • Quality engineering for early stage of environmentally conscious design

    Tomohiko Sakao

Frequent Co-Authors

Tetsuo Tomiyama
Tetsuo Tomiyama International Professional University of Technology in Tokyo
Yang Liu
Yang Liu Linköping University
Tamio Arai
Tamio Arai University of Tokyo
Christian Kowalkowski
Christian Kowalkowski Linköping University
Yingfeng Zhang
Yingfeng Zhang Northwestern Polytechnical University
John S. Gero
John S. Gero University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Ou Tang
Ou Tang Linköping University
Patrik Thollander
Patrik Thollander Linköping University
Donald Huisingh
Donald Huisingh University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Mitsuru Akashi
Mitsuru Akashi Osaka University

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