Kunskapsförmedlingen Christoffer Levandowski
Ph.D. Product Development
Project time: 2013 – 2017
Budget: 12 000 000 SEK
Funding: SIP Produktion2030
The core of this project is a development platform for parallel product and production system development. This has been implemented in a virtual demonstrator, showing the functionality of the approach as implemented in an IT architecture. The main impact of a virtual demonstrator for parallel product and production development is on development efficiency. By enabling quick virtual generation, verification and validation of a great number of alternative product-production solutions substantial time and cost savings can be made.
The methods and working procedures developed in the project were at project start expected to significantly contribute to a) reduce risk and the customer product realization time with up to 50%, and b) improve the geometrical quality (reduce variation) with up to 25%. These results are considered achieved on a demonstrator level, available for use and proof of concept for the industrial partners.
The project was conducted in close collaboration between Chalmers, Fraunhofer-Chalmers Centre, GKN Aerospace, Brogren Industries and Permanova. Together, the collaborators worked around a use case that established the ambition to reduce lead time for customer quotation of GKN without loosing precision in producibility assessment. The lead time reduction was expected to go from 3 months to 3 weeks. The use case was implemented in a demonstrator, also used in education of engineers at GKN, and as a means for specification of implementation.
2014 – 2017
2015 – 2016
Increased sustainability and cost effectiveness through improved strategic decision-making in production issues based on new metrics system for production and development.
2015 – 2017
2017 – 2018
Reduced lead times and improved performance for tooling through innovative manufacturing and assembly strategies as well as optimised design enabled by use of additive manufacturing (AM).
2016 – 2018
2014 – 2018
2015 – 2017
2017 – 2018
2016 – 2016
2014 – 2016
With globalization and other megatrends as demographic changes and climate change, more knowledge is needed regarding production in an international perspective. PADOK Study Visit in India 2016 have given an increased knowledge regarding how production is conducted in India, some of the challenges producing companies in that region is facing and how Swedish companies interested in investing in production in India could act to establish themselves in the region.
2016 – 2016
Målet var att förstå de utmaningar som den svenska och japanska industrin står inför studiebesök.
2017 – 2018
2015 – 2016
2016 – 2018
2017 – 2020
2015 – 2016
2013 – 2016
2014 – 2017
2015 – 2016
Tooling constitutes a significant part in the economical investment of the hot stamping process. Significant benefits in production economy and environmental benefits can be attained by improving the tribological performance in hot forming operations of automotive components. The main idea of this project is to create tailored tool surfaces on dies made from cheaper and easier to manufacture tool steel for the hot stamping of ultra-high strength steels.
2015 – 2018
2016 – 2017
2015 – 2018
2015 – 2016
2013 – 2016
2014 – 2014
2015 – 2016
2017 – 2018
2016 – 2019
2017 – 2018
2017 – 2018
2017 – 2018
Every manufacturing company measure and control production performance with a system of KPIs. The aim of the SMART-PM project is to investigate and demonstrate new ways of collecting data, transforming data to information and introducing new decision tools based on valid information and economic models of the production systems.
2018 – 2020
2014 – 2017
2016 – 2016
2014 – 2017
2016 – 2018
2015 – 2015
RemProLife aims at improving the use of life-cycle information to achieve more efficient remanufacturing from economic and ecological perpectives.
2013 – 2016
2017 – 2019
2013 – 2017
2015 – 2015
2014 – 2017
2017 – 2021
2015 – 2016
The SAPPA project is about innovative cloud-based predictive and preventive maintenance systems, improving availability of products and production systems.
2014 – 2016
2015 – 2016
2016 – 2016
2015 – 2016
2017 – 2018
2015 – 2016
2017 – 2020
2016 – 2016
The aim is to enable increased use of recycled material in polymer parts and to increase service life of products.
2022 – 2023
2017 – 2018
2015 – 2016
The project focuses on economic and environmental sustainability and increased industrial competitiveness.
2017 – 2018
2017 – 2018
2016 – 2017
2014 – 2017