Kevin Otto

6.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
170 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Kevin Otto is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Management of Technology and Innovation and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin Otto has authored 170 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 80 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation and 62 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kevin Otto's work include Product Development and Customization (77 papers), Design Education and Practice (71 papers) and Manufacturing Process and Optimization (57 papers). Kevin Otto is often cited by papers focused on Product Development and Customization (77 papers), Design Education and Practice (71 papers) and Manufacturing Process and Optimization (57 papers). Kevin Otto collaborates with scholars based in United States, Singapore and Finland. Kevin Otto's co-authors include Kristin L. Wood, Erik K. Antonsson, Javier P. Gonzalez-Zugasti, Katja Hölttä‐Otto, Jeffrey B. Dahmus, John D. Baker, Daniel Jensen, Bradley Camburn, Richard Crawford and Julie Linsey and has published in prestigious journals such as Energy, Energy and Buildings and Fuzzy Sets and Systems.

In The Last Decade

Kevin Otto

165 papers receiving 4.5k citations

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Product Design: Techniques in Reverse Engineering and New Product Development

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A systematic energy-aware scheduling framework for manufacturing factories integrated with renewables 2024 ·International Journal of Production Research ·(unknown), Wen Li, Ying Tan, Kevin Otto	6
2	A Repurposable Attribute Basis for Identifying Repurposing Opportunities in Decommissioned Products 2024 ·Journal of Mechanical Design ·(unknown), Kevin Otto, Wen Li, Katja Hölttä‐Otto	0
3	Condition diagnosis of a screw extrusion process through energy consumption curve monitoring 2024 ·(unknown), Kevin Otto, Boris Eisenbart, (unknown)	0
4	Foundry Data Collection and Part Tracking Using Additively Manufactured Digital Code Direct-Part-Marking Tags 2023 ·Applied Mechanics and Materials ·(unknown), Kevin Otto, (unknown), (unknown)	2
5	Designing Complex Systems for Decommissioning in a Circular Economy: A Systematic Literature Review 2023 ·(unknown), Katja Hölttä‐Otto, Kevin Otto, Wen Li	2
6	Additively Manufactured 2D Matrix Code Direct Part-Marking Casting Requirements 2023 ·International Journal of Metalcasting ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Kevin Otto	2
7	Facing extreme uncertainty – how the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic influenced product development 2022 ·Repository KITopen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) ·Katja Hölttä‐Otto, Tua Björklund, (unknown), Kevin Otto, Dieter Krause, Claudia Eckert, (unknown), Albert Albers	2
8	Miniature Piezoelectric Mobile Robot driven by Standing Wave 2015 ·Hassan Hariri, Gim Song Soh, Shaohui Foong, Kristin L. Wood, Kevin Otto	10
9	Mini-Design Projects in Capstone: Initial Design Experiences to Enhance Students' Implementation of Design Methodology 2015 ·(unknown), (unknown), Michael Lawrence, (unknown), Daniel Jensen, (unknown), Kevin Otto, Kristin L. Wood	0
10	Innovation differences between new venture startups and incumbent firms 2013 ·Katja Hölttä‐Otto, Kevin Otto, Jianxi Luo	6
11	CAPITAL COSTS AND ENERGY SAVINGS ACHIEVED BY ENERGY CONSERVATION MEASURES FOR OFFICE BUILDINGS IN THE GREATER PHILADELHIA REGION 2012 ·Proceedings of SimBuild ·(unknown), Kevin Otto, Jin Wen, Patrick L. Gurian, (unknown)	4
12	PRIORITIZING BUILDING SYSTEM ENERGY FAILURE MODES USING WHOLE BUILDING ENERGY SIMULATION 2012 ·Proceedings of SimBuild ·Kevin Otto, Bryan Eisenhower, Zheng O’Neill, (unknown), Igor Mezić, Satish Narayanan	7
13	Using Design of Experiments (doe) for Decision Analysis 2007 ·DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·(unknown), Kevin Otto, Warren Seering	3
14	Enabling Factors in Successful Product Development 2005 ·DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·(unknown), Bing Liu, (unknown), Kevin Otto, Warren Seering	7
15	DESIGN FOR FLEXIBILITY - MEASURES AND GUIDELINES 2003 ·DS 31: Proceedings of ICED 03, the 14th International Conference on Engineering Design, Stockholm ·(unknown), Michael Van Wie, Matthew I. Campbell, Kevin Otto, Kristin L. Wood	36
16	Modular Product Architecture 2000 ·Jeffrey B. Dahmus, Javier P. Gonzalez-Zugasti, Kevin Otto	42
17	Designing the design course sequence 1999 ·Mechanical Engineering ·Kevin Otto, Kristin L. Wood	9
18	Integrated System Modeling To Improve Product Quality 1999 ·(unknown), Kevin Otto	1
19	Modeling imprecision in product design 1994 ·Kevin Otto, Erik K. Antonsson	19
20	Determining optimal points of membership with dependent variables 1993 ·Fuzzy Sets and Systems ·Kevin Otto, Andrew D. Lewis, Erik K. Antonsson	8

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