Leonardo da Vinci is remembered in history as a “universal genius”, he was an artist, a scientist, a mathematician and an engineer. He generated a huge amount of ideas and sketches of revolutionary concepts in his days. Although, almost none of these became reality. Why was it like that? What is the reason that brilliant ideas don’t become innovations – in...
During the month of November lots of items were going on, below is a snapshot with links, see the full PDRL web for all the activities.
Under två dagar samlades industri och akademi till Techtank Conference 2016 på Volvo Cars i Olofström. Konferensen erbjöd en framtidsblick inom stampingområden som industriell produktutveckling, processberedning, tillverkning samt processunderhåll.
Extended product warranties up to 10 years, leasing or pay-per-use schemes are just few examples of how manufacturing companies are shifting their focus from selling products to offering “solutions” (functional sales, product-service systems etc.), combining products and services. The opportunity to maximize customer value is a main reason for this, still great challenges remain when “value” is measured and communicated...
En galen hockeyprofessor? Nej, men en hockeytokig farsa och teknikprofessor – som är oavlönad ordförande i en klubb med en omsättning uppemot 90 miljoner kronor. Sydöstran träffade KHK:s ordförande Tobias Larsson för att snacka SHL-succé, föreningsvisioner och en alltför snabb framgång som skapade huvudbry. Sydöstrans artikel här: http://www.sydostran.se/lordagslatt/en-hockeytokig-professor-med-khk-visioner/?fb_action_ids=10205794525461155&fb_action_types=og.likes Artikeln som PDF: http://www.tobiasclarsson.com/wp-content/uploads/20161112-En-hockeytokig-professor-med-KHK-visioner-Sydöstran.pdf
BTH Professors Göran Broman, Karl-Henrik Robèrt and Tobias Larsson, has together with Terrence J. Collins (Carnegie Mellon University), George Basile (Arizona State University), Rupert J. Baumgartner (University of Graz), Tobias Larssona, Donald Huisingh (University of Tennessee) been editors for a Special Issue of Journal of Cleaner Production.
BTH utbildningskatalog har en feature; “Raka puckar med Professorn”. Läs katalogen här: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/68eb5ae2#/68eb5ae2/20
Mekatronik för att sätta en basketboll! Under höstlovet passade vi på att tillsammans med Molybden och Hyper Island återigen arrangera ett Robothon för ungdomar i kommunen, det 4’e i ordningen i denna konstellationen. 30-40 ungdomar deltog under dagen i Hyper Islands kreativa lokaler, och 6 team valde att anta utmaningen att bygga en robot som klarade att få en basketball i korgen.
Globally, healthcare is under great pressure as the population increases; we live longer. In 2020 there will be more than 7.6 billion people. If the trend continues, a large percentage have problems with health. More than 30 percent of the world population are exercising too little, 20 percent are overweight and 13 percent are 60 years or older.
During a rainy saturday, some 20 BTH students joined for the research labs event “Future Exploration Design-Build-Test challenge” in collaboration with Volvo Construction Equipment.
