Manufacturology

KTH and University West">2010 Alde Nilsson award to KTH and University West

Sum­mer is over, and I’ll be resum­ing my blog­ging. First off is a note about the 2010 Alde Nils­son award, which was  announced last week. Two researchers were awarded 30000 SEK each for their con­tri­bu­tions to pro­duc­tion research.

Dan­fang Chen, KTH, works with fac­tory infor­ma­tion mod­el­ling. Her licen­ti­ate the­sis, pub­lished in 2009, was titled “Infor­ma­tion man­age­ment for the fac­tory plan­ning process”. The the­sis, which is avail­able in PDF for­mat here, pro­vides a high level descrip­tion of the design of a web based deci­sion sup­port tool known as the Pro­duc­tion Pilot (Swedish “Pro­duk­tion­slot­sen”).

Amir Her­alic, Uni­ver­sity West, works with robo­tised laser metal wire depo­si­tion. Metal wire depo­si­tion is an approach to pro­duce com­plex metal com­po­nents rapidly and at low cost directly from a CAD draw­ing in a near net shape fash­ion. In his licen­ti­ate the­sis, Her­alic presents a sys­tem for on-line mon­i­tor­ing and con­trol of this process. The the­sis is avail­able here.

The award diploma will be awarded dur­ing a cer­e­mony at the next Swedish Pro­duc­tion Sym­po­sium SPS11.

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