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Health and Technology for All workshop at BTH!

Health and Technology for All workshop at BTH!

School of Health held October 27-28 a workshop at BTH to find needs and opportunities for collaboration between Blekinge Institute of Technology and Linköping University within the field of Applied Health Technology. The workshop was aimed as an event to exchange information on ongoing activities, and to make a common external analysis of present and future needs and opportunities in applied health technology, focusing on the theme “Health and Technology for all”. They also wanted to find different interaction points in the existing projects anddiscuss the starts of new joint projects. Participants worked creatively in order...

Product-Service Innovation workshop and panel session at 2011 World Student Environmental Summit

Product-Service Innovation workshop and panel session at 2011 World Student Environmental Summit

[2011-05-20] From May 17-22 the World Student Environmental Summit took place at BTH in Karlskrona. WSES: “The World Student Environmental Summit (WSES) is a student-run convention on fundamental contemporary sustainability issues. It provides a platform for students all over the world to gather together to ask meaningful questions and create solutions towards alternative futures. Top-class personalities from science, humanities and...

Lean Innovation workshop at Landstinget Blekinge

Lean Innovation workshop at Landstinget Blekinge

[2011-04-17]. A network workshop meeting for “Chefer och Ledare Blekinge” was March 17 held at Kompetenscentrum in Karlskrona. At  this occasion, Professor Tobias Larsson from Blekinge Institute of Technology, was invited to talk about his experiences from research and development in product development that may be beneficial for the County Council of Blekinge. Tobias”packaged” it as a “Lean Innovation” workshop and presented  the challenges to achieve profitability in the development and sale of aircrafts, and the way aerospace companies go about reducing costs, improving efficiency and adding...

Assessing the value of sub-system technologies including life-cycle alternatives

Assessing the value of sub-system technologies including life-cycle alternatives

Research paper published in Proceedings of the 18th CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, Glocalized solutions for sustainability in manufacturing. Abstract Emerging from an industrial case study in the aerospace industry, the paper proposes an approach to evaluate sub-system technology concepts from a life cycle perspective.  The approach is composed by 5 main phases that aims to drive product designers...

Professor Larsson keynote at industrial fair

Professor Larsson keynote at industrial fair

Tobias Larsson is invited keynote speaker at Automation 2011 in Malmö 13-14/4 2011.   14/4 kl 11.30 Tobias Larsson will talk about: “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...

LTU bidrar till effektivisering av europeisk flygindustri

LTU bidrar till effektivisering av europeisk flygindustri

Den europeiska flygindustrin står inför sin största utmaning någonsin, då nya och hittills oprövade teknologier för ett miljövänligare flyg ska tas fram på ett avsevärt tids- och kostnadseffektivare sätt trots att flygplanens komplexitet ökar radikalt år från år. För att möta denna utmaning deltar Avdelningen för Funktionella produkter vid Luleå tekniska universitet i ett europeiskt forskningsprojekt med totalt 59 partners...

Holographic Product Verification – HOLOPRO

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...

Congratulations Mikael, PhD!

Congratulations Mikael, PhD!

Today, Mikael Nybacka, Division of Functional Product Development, presented and defended his Ph.D. thesis “Exploring technologies for service provision in automotive winter testing”. Opponent was Professor Jochen Pohl, Linköping University, and the grading committee consisted of Dr. Anders Claesson, Saab Automobile, Professor Emeritus Jan-Gunnar Persson, KTH, and Professor Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn, Luleå University of Technology.  Mikael has in his research studied...