Kunskapsförmedlingen Kerstin Johansen
Professor, Integrated Product and Production Development
Project time: 2021 – 2024
Budget: 7 200 000 SEK
Funding: SIP Produktion2030
Resilient and sustainable production for proactive production development of greenfield/brownfield.
This project addresses challenges for manufacturing firms setting up new, i.e. greenfield production facilities. The industrial relevance of the project lies in ensuring a future-proof factory in an efficient industrial value chain, based on circularity, in terms of minimum waste, and long-term overall sustainability with a triple bottom line perspective, including social, ecological and long-term economic values (people, planet and profit). Yet another requirement is the ability to adapt to future market needs and opportunities, to be resilient. Resilience and sustainability are essential requirements for competitive manufacturing in the future. With these aspects in mind, this research proposal: “Resilient and Sustainable Production – Proactive greenfield and brownfield production development (RaSP)” is formed. The RaSP project aims to develop a framework that proactively supports Swedish manufacturing industries to be in the forefront in the transition towards circular production and create prerequisites for resilience and sustainability from a holistic perspective. Together with the industrial partners, practical knowledge will be developed related to the content and prerequisites for resilient and sustainable production. The two overarching goals are to: a) determine the essential elements of a resilient and sustainable production system, and to b) create a development process supporting such a development. Through an interactive approach in the research consortium, the expected result is a proactive framework supporting greenfield and brownfield production development.
Urinary incontinence is a common problem that affects everyone, ranging from young women who have recently given birth to men who have undergone prostate surgery. Amongst people over the age of 70, almost half of everyone, both women and men, suffer from involuntary urine leakage.
2021 – 2023
Indium is a silvery metal that is very soft and malleable. Together with tin, the metal can be used to create indium tin oxide with properties that make it one of the most important components in the electronics industry. The goal of the project is therefore to build a recycling unit in a continuous production without waste.
2021 – 2023
A new environmentally friendly process for production of graphene based on equipment normally used in pulp industry
2021 – 2021
For more than a hundred years, lubricants for various types of machines have mainly been made from fossil oil. The function has improved over time, but they also have disadvantages; they negatively affect the environment, human health and the climate. The project will therefore work to improve the practical applications by, together with other tests, combining lab tests with field tests.
2021 – 2023
Urinary incontinence is a common problem that affects everyone from young women who have recently given birth to men who have undergone prostate surgery. Amongst people over the age of 70, almost half of everyone, both women and men, suffer from involuntary urinary leakage.
2021 – 2023
The project created a sustainable test bed that by provides Swedish industry with facilities and tools to physically and virtually evaluate different manufacturing concepts.
2013 – 2016
Cyclicor, which has its origins at Lund University, has in a previous project within Mistra Innovation successfully developed a method for producing the plastics polycarbonate (PC) and polyurethane (PU) without toxic additives. One goal of the Polyfree 2.0 project is to increase the production of the new plastics from lab scale to quantities that enable the participating industrial companies in turn to take steps towards finished products. Other goals are for the plastics to be recyclable as well as have the required properties.
2021 – 2023
A large number of building boards are used in both construction and furniture manufacturing. They are usually made of sawdust with a formaldehyde-based adhesive as a binder. However, they have some problems, including the fact that shavings absorb moisture and that formaldehyde is both allergenic and potentially carcinogenic. The LigniGC project aims to develop a better alternative.
2021 – 2023
Målet var att förstå de utmaningar som den svenska och japanska industrin står inför studiebesök.
2017 – 2018
The SQID project will develop an industrial cleaning and drying machine using Qlean water instead of traditional chemicals.
2016 – 2018
Failure prediction for complex load cases in sheet metal forming
2020 – 2023
