Acknowledgement

It gave us the opportunity to use what we have learnt during the programme. Due to the vast area of investigation the research presented, writing and working on this report has meant a lot of work. However, at the same time this was the challenge we were looking for and a really interesting journey where we got the opportunity to learn a lot. Hereby, we would like to express our deepest gratitude to the following people for their help in enriching the quality of this report and guiding us along the way. First of all we would like to thank Bodil Hägg for giving us the opportunity and helping us find this interesting subject to work on. We also thank her for getting us in touch with other Volvo companies’ personnel during this research. We would also like to thank our supervisor at Volvo Penta, Vara, Tonny Tuvheim for his support, kindness and patience; the same gratitude to all the other personnel at Vara that we have interviewed. Furthermore, we would also like to thank Mr. Stefan Karlsson at Volvo Trucks for his time and kind assistance in benchmarking parts of the study. Last but not least we would like to express our highest gratitude to Prof. Dag Ericsson that has been our tutor and examiner during this report. Dag has guided us along the way, advised us and mad