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Product-Service Innovation workshop and panel session at 2011 World Student Environmental Summit
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Product-Service Innovation workshop and panel session at 2011 World Student Environmental Summit

[2011-05-20] From May 17-22 the World Student Environmental Summit took place at BTH in Karlskrona. WSES: “The World Student Environmental Summit (WSES) is a student-run convention on fundamental contemporary sustainability issues. It provides a platform for students all over the world to gather together to ask meaningful questions and create solutions towards alternative futures. Top-class personalities from science, humanities and...

  • May 21, 2011
Lean Innovation workshop at Landstinget Blekinge
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Lean Innovation workshop at Landstinget Blekinge

[2011-04-17]. A network workshop meeting for “Chefer och Ledare Blekinge” was March 17 held at Kompetenscentrum in Karlskrona. At  this occasion, Professor Tobias Larsson from Blekinge Institute of Technology, was invited to talk about his experiences from research and development in product development that may be beneficial for the County Council of Blekinge. Tobias”packaged” it as a “Lean Innovation” workshop and presented  the challenges to achieve profitability in the development and sale of aircrafts, and the way aerospace companies go about reducing costs, improving efficiency and adding...

  • May 16, 2011
Assessing the value of sub-system technologies including life-cycle alternatives
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Assessing the value of sub-system technologies including life-cycle alternatives

Research paper published in Proceedings of the 18th CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, Glocalized solutions for sustainability in manufacturing. Abstract Emerging from an industrial case study in the aerospace industry, the paper proposes an approach to evaluate sub-system technology concepts from a life cycle perspective.  The approach is composed by 5 main phases that aims to drive product designers...

  • May 4, 2011
Professor Larsson keynote at industrial fair
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Professor Larsson keynote at industrial fair

Tobias Larsson is invited keynote speaker at Automation 2011 in Malmö 13-14/4 2011.   14/4 kl 11.30 Tobias Larsson will talk about: “Increase the value in swedish industry” How can the swedish production system be improved and what should we pick up from other environments. The importance of working with method development to improve value creation in industry to remain competitive...

  • April 8, 2011
LTU bidrar till effektivisering av europeisk flygindustri
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LTU bidrar till effektivisering av europeisk flygindustri

Den europeiska flygindustrin står inför sin största utmaning någonsin, då nya och hittills oprövade teknologier för ett miljövänligare flyg ska tas fram på ett avsevärt tids- och kostnadseffektivare sätt trots att flygplanens komplexitet ökar radikalt år från år. För att möta denna utmaning deltar Avdelningen för Funktionella produkter vid Luleå tekniska universitet i ett europeiskt forskningsprojekt med totalt 59 partners...

  • April 7, 2010
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Holographic Product Verification – HOLOPRO

2010-01: The divisions of Functional Product Development, Experimental Mechanics, and Mathemathics have gotten hypothesis testing from VINNOVA. SUMMARY The hypothesis in this project is that it is possible to perform a quantitative evaluation of predefined attributes for a physical product in a manufacturing process in less than one second. Today essentially all product attributes are controlled off-line which limits the...

  • January 20, 2010
Congratulations Mikael, PhD!
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Congratulations Mikael, PhD!

Today, Mikael Nybacka, Division of Functional Product Development, presented and defended his Ph.D. thesis “Exploring technologies for service provision in automotive winter testing”. Opponent was Professor Jochen Pohl, Linköping University, and the grading committee consisted of Dr. Anders Claesson, Saab Automobile, Professor Emeritus Jan-Gunnar Persson, KTH, and Professor Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn, Luleå University of Technology.  Mikael has in his research studied...

  • December 20, 2009
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New project; Robust Machining

2009-12: The VINNOVA programme for vehicular research “Fordonsstrategisk Forskning och Innovation – FFI”, has decided to fund the research project “Robust Machining” with 10 million SEK. The project runs over 2009-2012 and has a total budget of 24 MSEK. Within the project FPD will research knowledge intense applications for manufacturing, Knowledge Engineering. New generations of environmentally friendly and safe vehicles...

  • December 19, 2009
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ProViking result day 2009

The annual result day for ProViking was this year held at Aspenäs Manor outside Gothenburg, where 15 projects presented their results. ProViking is a national research program designed to create improved systems of production and new methods of product development. From Luleå University of Technology three projects participated; THINK, ProAct and InMaint. The presentations took place in showcases constructed by...

  • October 12, 2009
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New project; Global Team Based Innovation with Volvo CE!

2009-09: Last Friday, Mattias Bergström and Tobias Larsson had an inspiring meeting together with representatives from Volvo Construction Equipment (VCE), Eskilstuna. This meeting was the starting point of a new research project between LTU and VCE. The aim of the project is to study and map Global Team Innovation at VCE for the purpose of creating a structured innovation process...

  • September 21, 2009