Project time: 2019 – 2021
Budget: 3 616 000 kronor
The EVASTIR project will support the Swedish automotive industry with the transition from internal combustion engine to battery electric vehicles, while introducing new sustainable manufacturing processes. This project will develop a welding process, FSW, to support design and fabrication a cost-effective, scalable, lightweight and crash-resistant battery tray for electric vehicles. The specific technical objectives of this project are to develop FSW procedures for dissimilar material joints of cast and extruded aluminium alloys and for high speed welding to 5m/min.
The EVASTIR project will support the Swedish automotive industry with the transition from internal combustion engine to battery electric vehicles, while introducing new sustainable manufacturing processes. This project will develop a welding process, friction stir welding (FSW), to support design and fabrication a cost-effective, scalable, lightweight and crash-resistant battery tray for electric vehicles. The specific technical objectives of this project are to develop friction stir welding procedures for dissimilar material joints of cast and extruded aluminium alloys and for high speed welding to 5m/min. The project aims to strengthen the Swedish competitiveness in the electric vehicle industry and the successful completion of this project would enable a full Swedish supply chain through OEM, subcontractor, raw materials supplier and manufacturing equipment supplier. The project results are expected to be implemented in Swedish electric vehicle production within 1 to 3 years after completion of the project. The project is led by academic partner University West, and support by three major industrial partners, Volvo Cars, Hydro Extruded Solutions and ESAB. The total project duration is 2 years with a total budget of 3,6MSEK, of which 1.8MSEK would be funded through the Vinnova FFI programme.
The long-term goal of the research project is to develop hardware and software platform, i.e. modular systems that enables production workers to easily build and implement IoT-aided improvement solutions at the production shop floor
2017 – 2018
The objective is to bring together expertise from AI and LCE to Product/Service Systems for Swedish manufacturing firms in a multidisciplinary research effort to utilise latest techniques efficiently for Swedish production industry. The goal is to make a plan of developing demonstrators in production and maintenance using artificial intelligence techniques, digital technologies and lifecycle engineering methods
2019 – 2019
TriBlade is a new ground-breaking technology for rotor blades in wind turbines, which have the potential to affect the entire wind power market. The technology has been developed by Winfoor in collaboration with Lund University and is based on each rotor blade designed as a truss.
2015 – 2019
The goal is to mirror the production and make custom information available for industry personnel.
2018 – 2019
Industrial production systems typically include many process steps performed by automatic or semi-automatic machines. Depending on the different variables, these machines age and thereby affecting both the quality of the manufacturing step and the resource requirements
2017 – 2018
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