Manufacturology

List of Alde Nilsson award winners

Alde Nils­son as por­trayed on the award diploma.

The Alde Nils­son Award for pro­duc­tion research is a Swedish award given annu­ally to one or a few researchers who made notable con­tri­bu­tions to the field of pro­duc­tion research dur­ing the pre­ced­ing year.

Alde Nils­son was born in 1917 and grad­u­ated from the Swedish tech­ni­cal col­lege as ‘gym­nasiein­gen­jör’. He came to worked at ASEA and was advanced to become vice pres­i­dent respon­si­ble for man­u­fac­tur­ing dur­ing 1960 to 1977.

Alde Nils­son was known to be excep­tion­ally knowl­edge­able, dynamic, direct, per­sua­sive and fair. On his 70’th birth­day he was hon­oured through the estab­lish­ment of the foun­da­tion that bears his name: Alde Nilsson’s ABB-foundation, along with the asso­ci­ated award.

The atten­tion given to the prize has var­ied over the years. In the begin­ning of the 1990’s, it was awarded to recip­i­ents dur­ing a cer­e­mony where the cheque and diploma was handed over by Swedish Prince Bertil. In recent years, it has been awarded dur­ing the Swedish Pro­duc­tion Sym­po­sium, which is arranged annu­ally by the Swedish Pro­duc­tion Acad­emy.

Most of the fol­low­ing (incom­plete) list of award recip­i­ents was obtained through the aid of the cur­rent sec­re­tary of the Alde Nils­son ABB-foundation, Helena Malmqvist at ABB Cor­po­rate Research. Unfor­tu­nately she could only obtain the names of award win­ners start­ing from 2001. I was able to extend the list some­what through inter­net searches for old press releases, as well as by e-mailing some of the older award win­ners and ask for more information.

Since this is, as far as I know, the only avail­able list of Alde Nils­son award win­ners, I would greatly appre­ci­ate any help to fur­ther extend it with miss­ing names.

Alde Nils­son award winners

1990
1991
1992    Robert Ohls­son, Bengt-Göran Rosén
1993
1994    Bo Erixon
1995
1996
1997    Anders Adlemo, Pia Sand­vik Wik­lund, Jan Wahlberg
1998
1999    Per Peters­son
2000    Stephan Eski­lan­der
2001    Pär Mårtens­son
2002    Anders Karls­son, Johan Nielsen
2003    Thomas Grün­berg, Ker­stin Johansen, Björn Johans­son, Hen­rik Kihlman, Ste­fan Tan­gen
2004    Pet­ter Falk­man, Arne Inge­mans­son, Patrik Kenger, Johan Richards­son
2005    Peter Alm­ström, Jens von Axel­son
2006    Johan Östlin
2007    Mar­cus Bjelke­myr, Hugo Flordal, Veron­ica Granell, Avenir Kobet­ski, Joakim Storck
2008    Jör­gen Frohm, Anna Fredriks­son, Kristin Ander­s­son
2009    Johan Berglund, Jes­sica Bruch, Jenny Bäck­strand, Åsa Fasth, Fredrik Sik­ström
2010    Dan­fang Chen, Almir Heralic

See also

• 2010 Alde Nils­son award to KTH and Uni­ver­sity West

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