Förra veckan befann jag mig i Montreal för att delta i den internationella vetenskapliga konferensen CARV, förkortning för Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual production. Det handlade om en konferens för produktionsforskare arrangerad med stöd av internationella produktionsakademien CIRP. Temat var ekonomiskt och miljömässigt uthållig produktion. Artiklarna ges ut i form av en bok på Springer […]
Jag har den senaste tiden varit djupt involverad i arbetet med att skriva en ansökan om forskarutbildningsrättigheter inom området Metallbearbetning, som ska bedömas av Högskolan Dalarnas rektor inom kort. Förutsatt att förutsättningarna att ansökan ser goda ut så skickas den i så fall till högskoleverket under hösten. Igår var det inskrivningsdag och fullt med nya […]
Jag har fått mitt bidrag till CARV 2011 antaget och reser till Montreal för att delta i konferensen den 2 till 5 oktober. Titeln på min artikel (sex sidor) är “Product variety, flexibility and energy use in hot rolling mills”. Konferensens fullständiga officiella namn är “The 4th International Conference on Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual […]
I’m responsible for arranging “Stålforskningsdagarna 2011″ (“Steel research days”), a two-day research conference arranged on Mars 30–31 in Borlänge by the department of materials science at Dalarna University. The conference is a regional research symposium where all speakers, in some way, are linked to our department. We are publishing the conference proceedings in the form of […]
Unfortunately I’ve not had time to complete my article for SPS’11 in May. I was afraid this would happen already when I submitted my abstract, but as you know hope is tha last thing that dies. But I’ve been too busy with other things, for example childcare: I’ve only worked one day per week since […]
Today was a big day at the new metal forming laboratory at Dalarna University (previously mentioned in this post): After several years of talking and planning, our new cold rolling mill finally works. And I’ve spent the day playing with it to learn how it works. I and a few om my colleagues at the university […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The 4th Swedish Production Symposium will be held in Lund on May 3 to 5 2011. Abstract submission is from August 1 to September 20 (Update: extended deadline September 27), and the date for full paper submission is January 15. I’ll try to be there, although I know already that I’ll be short on time to get […]
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