Post by Andreas Braun

I am proud to announce that Springer Nature just published the book "Co-Evolution of Design Research and Design Practice" https://lnkd.in/dQrmVsCR ➡️ Engineering complex products is, above all, a socio‑technical challenge. That’s the key message of the excellent contribution by my dear former colleagues Sabine Muschik and Sebastian Thau, who also published in the same book. Their chapter highlights a systemic problem most of us see every day: ▪️ Modern product development spans mechanical engineering, software, electronics, thermodynamics, chemistry, data science, and more. ▪️ Each discipline brings its own terminology, tools, methods, mental models, and even logics of reasoning. ▪️ Academic methods are often too complex for practitioners, leading to selective adoption instead of holistic application. ▪️ Misunderstandings aren’t caused by tools alone — they stem from divergent views on what the product fundamentally is, how it should behave, and how development should be structured. ▪️ Without a shared mindset behind methods, collaboration inefficiencies multiply. 🔎 Their message is clear: #Cross‑disciplinary #engineering requires not just methods, but shared understanding of the mindset behind those methods. This is where our own contribution fits in: “Knowledge Management with MBSE in Battery Development at AVL” I had the pleasure to contribute this chapter together with my colleagues Lena Höllein, Ibtihal Badi and Alexander Gelner. It builds on a decade of industrial practice and describes our approach to meet that challenge. Across many years and many projects, we have: ✅ Used Model‑Based Systems Engineering (#MBSE) to create a shared, visual, cross‑disciplinary language. ✅ Structured battery development into consistent functional, logical, and physical views understood across teams. ✅ Built #KnowledgeManagement frameworks to capture insights across projects - beyond just technical artifacts. ✅ Introduced #VariantManagement to handle different markets, chemistries, architectures, and regulatory environments systematically. ✅ And most recently, integrated #AI to support knowledge retrieval to overcome the limits of manual documentation and support engineers directly in their workflows. Happy to discuss the topic, share insights, or exchange experiences from other industries! And last but not least: A heartfelt thank you to the editors Kilian Gericke, Claudia Eckert, Vishal Singh and Srinavasan Venkataraman - and to every helping hand involved in bringing this book to life. (All of you who have ever contributed to a Springer publication know very well how much effort goes into this process ;)