November 2012

Featured in NyTeknik; “Lös klimatproblemen med teknikutveckling”

Featured in NyTeknik; “Lös klimatproblemen med teknikutveckling”

Nov 28, NyTeknik (chief editor Mats Engström) followed up a site visit at BTH and the research project SåNätt – Light Weight Vehicles (Tobias Larsson, Massimo Panarotto, Vice-chancellor Ursula Hass, and Henric Johnson participated from BTH and Jonas Adolfsson of Ruuki) with an introductory piece in NyTeknik entitled “Lös klimatproblemen med teknikutveckling“. Professor Tobias C. Larsson is chaired professor in Product Development at...

Sparbanksstiftelsen Kronan thesis awards 2012

Sparbanksstiftelsen Kronan thesis awards 2012

During a press conference at BTH the receivers of the Sparbanksstiftelsen Kronan thesis awards for 2012 was disclosed. 2 50.000 SEK awards and 3 25.000 SEK awards ended up in BTH students hands. Blekinge Läns Tidning covered the event and followed up with an article about the awards. (Download PDF)

Results from Digital Integrated Manufacturing project

Results from Digital Integrated Manufacturing project

The DIM – Digital Integrated Manufacturing project was created in order to demonstrate use of advanced technology from research into practical use. Tobias Larsson initiated the project together with Centria and Högskolan Narvik. It is now nice to see the deployment of the project results via PhD Henrik Nergård in the latest news article from Product Innovation research unit “Digitized reindeer...

Impacts of project-overload on innovation inside organizations: Agent-based modeling

Research paper published in  The International Innovation and Technology Conference, ICTI2012 in Venice, Italy. Abstract Market competition and a desire to gain advantages on globalized market, drives companies towards innovation efforts. Project overload is an unpleasant phenomenon, which is happening for employees inside those organizations trying to make the most efficient use of their resources to be innovative. But what...

Resource Consumption in Additive Manufacturing with a PSS Approach

Research paper published at the  4th CIRP International Conference on Industrial Product-Service Systems, Tokyo, Japan, November 8th – 9th, 2012. Abstract Since the 1980’s, additive manufacturing (AM) has gradually advanced from rapid prototyping applications towards fabricating end consumer products. Many small companies may prefer accessing AM technologies through service providers offering production services as result-oriented Industrial Product-Service System (IPSS) rather...