Course and Other Content | Patrick Hillberg

My LinkedIn Newsletter: Managing Product Lifecycles

While this website is devoted to content appropriate for a class, I also write an occasional newsletter on LinkedIn. Subscribe here.

Impacts of Climate Change

A repository of climate impact references that I use in teaching.

AVs, EVs, or TVs: How will we decide?

A repository of articles used in teaching related to systemic challenges of batteries, integrated circuits, and autonomous vehicles.

Managing Product Lifecycles for a Sustainable Future

This is the opening lecture of my course in Product Lifecycle Management, and I make the case that we must look at systems far larger...

Sustainable and Transparent Supply Chains

A supply chain repository used in teaching

What is Product Lifecycle Management?

How we think of product lifecycles has changed dramatically over the past few decades. These videos cover a brief history.

Creating Societal Value through Product Lifecycles

How will pandemics and climate change impact product lifecycles?

Product Development Tools

Briefly discusses, and provides links to, SE tools like SysML, MBSE and Agile.

The Myths of Product Development (Readings)

Note for those registered for the class: Access these articles from the class Moodle page, to save 50% on the cost. The Process of...

Digital Twins and Threads

Writings and corporate videos on Digital Twins and Threads

Systemic Complexity

We must adopt Systems Thinking to manage complexity (if management is even possible). And nothing is more complex than climate change.

Fix Systems Engineering!

Decomposition Creates Dysfunction, and leads to scandalous products. We need to fix Systems Engineering.

A Bat Sneezed and the Economy Collapsed

For centuries, humans have used technology to reinforce growth, to great effect, but now that growth is limited by it's own success.

The Advanced Manufacturing Workforce

A bottleneck of the future of manufacturing is the lack of a highly-skilled workforce

Collaboration fails without Organizational Learning

I do a lot of reading, not everything makes it into the course content. Here are some articles that I find interesting, and a short...