Category: production

Framtidens fabrik ligger i ditt vardagsrum

Ibland verkar det som om jak­ten på pro­duk­tivitet och konkur­ren­skraft bara leder utveck­lin­gen i en enda rik­t­ning: mot cen­tralis­er­ing. Det gäller både kon­sum­tion och pro­duk­tion. Tillverkn­ing av vardagspro­duk­ter fly­t­tas i allt högre grad till tillväxtlän­der där det finns gott om arbet­skraft och lön­erna är låga. Vi väl­jer ofta att göra våra inköp i stor­mark­nader, eller […]

Monday December 19th, 2011 in Product development, production, technology, The Future | No Comments »

Product and process development in steel industries

What are the gen­eral char­ac­ter­is­tics that set the steel indus­try apart from con­ven­tional man­u­fac­tur­ing indus­try? And, depend­ing on the answer, how do the processes of prod­uct devel­op­ment and pro­duc­tion engi­neer­ing dif­fer from other man­u­fac­tur­ing indus­tries? One dif­fer­ence is that steel pro­duc­ers are faced with a diver­gent pro­duc­tion flow where a few con­stituent mate­ri­als are combined […]

Thursday September 30th, 2010 in Product development, production, research, Steel | No Comments »

List of Alde Nilsson award winners

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 […]

Friday August 27th, 2010 in People, production, research | No Comments »