During a press conference at BTH the receivers of the Sparbanksstiftelsen Kronan thesis awards for 2012 was disclosed. 2 50.000 SEK awards and 3 25.000 SEK awards ended up in BTH students hands. Blekinge Läns Tidning covered the event and followed up with an article about the awards. (Download PDF)
The DIM – Digital Integrated Manufacturing project was created in order to demonstrate use of advanced technology from research into practical use. Tobias Larsson initiated the project together with Centria and Högskolan Narvik. It is now nice to see the deployment of the project results via PhD Henrik Nergård in the latest news article from Product Innovation research unit “Digitized reindeer...
Tobias Larsson was invited keynote speaker for the TelecomCity Catwalk12 event that took place September 12-13. The talk was called “Innovative Engineering” and highlighted how companies can work more deliberate with their engineering efforts, and touched upon experiences from automotive and aerospace projects. Blekinge Läns Tidning followed up with an interview.
In the VINNOVA call for “Challenge Driven Innovation – Project form B”, a consortium of BTH, KTH, Blekinge and Stockholm County Councils, and RxEye got the project “More effective analysis within medical imaging using collaboration based on networking structure” approved. Project abstract Medical imaging is facing major challenges. The demographic and geographic structure needs to be addressed with new approaches...
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In the international masters programme in Sustainable Product-Service System Innovation, MSPI there is project course with live industrial projects; PSS Extreme Innovation. For 4 months the students team up with companies to work on their challenges, trying to deliver innovative solutions to their challenges. The course is focused on, together with externa partner, carrying out a product-service system innovation project with...
[2011-04-14] Tobias Larsson was invited keynote speaker at Automation 2011 in Malmö 13-14/4 2011. Prof Larsson held a talk on “Increase the value in swedish industry – How can the swedish production system be improved and what should we pick up from other environments. The importance of working with method development to improve value creation in industry to remain competitive...
[2011-03-17] Professor Tobias C. Larsson has been a member of the core team behind the 2010 release of an Aviation National Research Agenda (NRA Flyg 2010). NRA Flyg 2010 was the result of a unique collaboration where companies, academia and institutes – together with relevant governmental agencies – have aligned themselves with respect to the future of Swedish aeronautical research....
On February 2nd-4th the Division of Functional Product Development hosted the third EU FP7 CRESCENDO WP2.2 physical meeting. Marco Bertoni, Tobias Larsson and Christian Johansson have welcomed in Luleå representatives from Volvo Aero, Rolls-Royce UK, EADS, University of Southampton, INSIA Toulouse and Pyramis. The meeting had the purpose to clarify current approaches for requirement establishment in the aircraft industry and...
2010-01: The divisions of Functional Product Development, Experimental Mechanics, and Mathemathics have gotten hypothesis testing from VINNOVA. SUMMARY The hypothesis in this project is that it is possible to perform a quantitative evaluation of predefined attributes for a physical product in a manufacturing process in less than one second. Today essentially all product attributes are controlled off-line which limits the...
