Kunskapsförmedlingen Large scale production of mixed material products
2013 – 2016
Professor, Integrated Product and Production Development
E-mail: kerstin.johansen@ju.se
Affiliation: Jönköping University
Academy: Production Academy
Research in the integration between product development and production solutions for resilient and sustainable production systems of the future. The research is covering the area of man-machine interaction in collaborative, sharing assembly tasks and how new technologies can be utilized in an integrated product and production development process managing future materials incl. recycled materials / components.
Her PhD thesis is about “Product introduction in collaboration between companies”. Today, the research is focusing on production solutions for the future light-weighted materials, such as carbon composite and cellulose materials, and how the man-machine can collaborative in an assembly situation in relation to the product design and the material characteristics.
She has more than 10 years of industrial experience from the Swedish electronic industry, including as manager for Advanced Manufacturing at Ericsson in Linköping.
2013 – 2016
Development of a comprehensive model for safe installation of collaborative robots
2016 – 2018
Further development of solutions for powerful collaborative robots, focusing on safety issues and the use of an enabling device.
2015 – 2018