Browsing through the online pages of my favourite Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet I came across an article (citing this article that appeared in Forbes a few days ago) calling Spotify founder/entrepreneur Daniel Ek the most important man in music at the moment. I went on to read the much more extensive Forbes article with great […]
I used to do a lot of programming. As a young teenager I was the lucky owner of a Commodore C64 doing my best to program moving starfields and Uridium clones in assembler. Much later, during one stage of my career I was heavily involved in train traffic simulator development. This meant getting fairly proficient […]
För något år sedan skrev jag om spännande nya forskningsprojekt inom fission, liksom om betydelsefulla framsteg inom konventionell fusionsforskning (här och här). Nu har något nytt och oväntat inträffat: så kallad “kall fusion”, eller en likvärdig process, kan eventuellt ha förverkligats. Det innebär i så fall inget mindre än en sensation och början på en […]
This evening I watched as Swedish culture programme Kobra visited Google’s headquarters the Googleplex in Mountain View, California. Google is known for taking the idea of employee care to the next level with free food, free gyms, laundry at work, free transport to and from work, and a playful atmosphere. No wonder Google is the […]
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 […]
From time to time I’ve read about companies that provide their employees with some fraction of their paid working time to do what they want. That is, to work on and elaborate any of their own ideas that they like as long as they fall reasonably within the company’s field of business. The most famous […]
How can the oil leak from the well below the collapsed Deepwater Horizon platform be stopped? Despite all efforts BP has so far failed to stop the leak, which may now be up to 100000 barrels per day, a disaster of unpreceded proportions. An attempt to place a steel cone on top of the well failed. […]
I feel that I should make a note about yesterdays post where I discussed the importance of technological innovation for industry. Commercializable innovation is of course not limited to technology. Technological innovation is often an enabler for service innovation. New technology transform the society in terms of infrastructure and the way we interact with each […]
More and more people download their music on the internet, and record stores are having a hard time. How come I’ve never heard anyone talk about on–demand CD production in the stores? The rapid decline in the number of record stores was discussed in a program on Swedish Radio P2 a couple of hours ago. […]
I’ve written about how process flexibility and small batch sizes improve production flow in steel industries in a couple of earlier posts (here and here). In this post I’ll discuss how the economical consequences of flexible rolling mill technology can be studied using a conceptual process cost model. The figure below illustrates a conceptual cost model […]
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