Utveckling och utformning av snäpplås till skjutbart fönster för den exklusiva marina marknaden

Sammanfattning: At present, there is no sliding window latch designed and developed for the marine market. Onmar is a company that develops and produces quality products for premium boats. They were asked to supply a latch that is exclusive and is of quality. This request became the basis for the thesis. The aim of the project was to gain an understanding of the concepts of exclusivity and quality to implement them in the design of a latch for premium boats. To ensure that the aim is achieved during the work, two research questions were formulated to be answered through the implementation of the project, which are as follows: Research question 1: How are exclusivity and quality defined and how can these definitions influence the design of an exclusive and quality product for the marine market? Research question 2: What value will a specially designed and developed latch for premium boats add compared to existing latch? The project combined two product development processes. These included concept generation, concept development and prototype creation and further development. Data collection was carried out using both literature and empirical data. The triangulation method was used to increase the reliability of the project. The results show that the investigated concepts are difficult todefine and no previous research regarding the concepts in productdevelopment has been done. The findings show that what indicates product quality and exclusivity within the marine market, is subjective and therefore difficult to define. No previous research on the meanings of these terms within product development were found. Nevertheless, definitions of exclusivity and quality have been defined and were applied as guidelines during the development of the latch for the marine market. A survey carried out to evaluate the final product concept of a latch for the marine market, suggests that the final concept gives a visual impression of exclusivity and quality. Whether a product is perceived as exclusive and whether it gives the impression of quality may depend on more factors than just design. The choice of materials and physical feedback during use are two other factors that can influence a user's impression of exclusivity and quality. The latch developed in this project can be used as a basis for further product development within the exclusive marine market.