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 […]
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. […]
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has just released its 2010 Lisbon Review. According to this report, Sweden is the most competitive nation in the EU [SvD]. According to the WEF press release, Sweden is “the most competitive economy as measured by the European Union’s (EU) own competition benchmark, the Lisbon criteria”. As I understand it, […]
Today’s society depends on flight for supply and delivery of goods. An extended flight ban has severe consequences. Here are some examples. Medicines: Ten percent of Swedish drug import is by airborne freight. Shortages may occur after another few days. Backup plan is to import by car from central Europe, says one major supplier of […]
He founded the Stockholm branch of the Swedish Institute for Production Engineering Research, IVF, during a break in his doctoral studies in 1965. Before he had time to complete his Ph.D. he became a professor in production engineering at Linköping Institute of Technology, LiTH (1971–1976), and in manufacturing systems at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, […]
GM and Spyker have finally announced that the Saab deal is real after all. This is great news! As this article shows, most experts seem to agree that Saab now must find a partner to increase production volumes and share the costs of platform development. I’m not so certain.
I’m uncertain whether it is possible to pick up this topic without falling into the how-to-define-lean trap. The nature of lean is a question that is discussed at length by researchers, but seldom asked in the “real world”. The reason could be that it’s mostly a matter of theoretical interest. However, since I believe that […]
Welcome to my site which I intend to use for writings and musings on production research and engineering. Additionally, it will serve as my personal home page. Although I’m Swedish, I will be using English as the main language for this blog. The reason is that the community of production researchers is highly international and […]
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