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- Bruch, Jessica, et al.
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Towards a Methodology for the Assessment of Information Requirements in a Proactive Assembly Work Setting
- 2008
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In: Swedish Production Symposium, November 18-20, 2008. ; , s. 311-318
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Assembly work settings enabling proactive behaviour of the assembly operators are considered to be an important factor enabling customization of assembly work. As a consequence, access to necessary and essential information is a critical means to support proactive behaviour of assembly operators. In this paper we propose a methodology for assessing information requirements supporting operators’ proactive activities and decisions. The methodology is based on work domain analysis and it was used for assessing the information flow in a real assembly setting. By analysing the structure of information exchange and the hierarchical means-ends relationships a number of conclusions could be drawn. The first is that in order to consider information needed for all possible work activities, work domain analysis is a suitable approach. Additionally, proactive behaviour is related to the access to information answering why and what-questions. Furthermore, development towards more proactivity among assembly operators may necessitate decentralised decision-making. It is also concluded that in order to identify intentional constraints of an assembly system with increased proactivity, it is necessary to examine the levels of automation. Furthermore, to reach productivity gains the levels of competence must be developed so that most proactive decisions will remain on the skill- or rule-based levels.
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- Chari, Arpita, et al.
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Sustainability in Produktion2030 : Sustainability and circular economy actions within the project portfolio of the Produktion2030 strategic innovation programme
- 2021
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Global manufacturing industry is undergoing tremendous transformation towards increased sustainability. This vital, industrial sector is rapidly enhancing its capability for resource efficient, circular, and climate neutral processes and business models. Industry is also rapidly recognizing sustainability and resilience measures as competitive advantages and unique selling points. Companies are being both nudged and forced into sustainable, resource-efficient businesses to comply with new demands and regulations from for example the European Commission’s Green Deal and global policy like the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).Customer needs as well as government policies and regulations are enforced through e.g. economic bonus and penalty systems, accelerating transformation. This change process is complex, requiring new knowledge and innovation. Therefore, Industrial sustainability is at the core of Produktion2030, the national Swedish Strategic Innovation Programme for manufacturing industry.The vision of Produktion2030 is to enable a competitive and sustainable Swedish manufacturing industry. Produktion2030 is putting strong efforts into acceleration of the green transformation, creating crossdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder collaboration, increasing national innovation capacity and agility, and driving competence development as well as workforce upskilling. In 2020, the Produktion2030 Programme Office and Supervisory Group commissioned a study to map sustainability achievements within the programme's total product portfolio.A national group of sustainability experts from Chalmers University of Technology, Linköping University, Royal Institute of Technology, and the institute RISE were invited to analyse all past and present Produktion2030 projects, from sustainability and circular economy perspectives.This report presents the results from the study, highlighting a selection of contributions to industrial sustainability achieved by Produktion2030 during the programme’s first six years. Data for the study was gathered during the spring of 2020. Representatives from all ongoing and finalised projects within the Produktion2030 programme were invited to an online survey. The objective was to investigate specific project impacts in terms of sustainability and implementation of a circular economy.Results showed that all Produktion2030 projects had applied at least one dimension of sustainability, economic. Further, 71% of the projects also covered the environmental dimension. Several projects applied sustainability trade-offs, where an improvement within one sustainability dimension affected other dimensions negatively. The UN Sustainable Development Goals #8, #9 and #12, were considered most relevant by the projects. Implementation or inclusion of circular economy was also common (45%) among the projects. Projects adapted circular economy concepts differently, according to their self-defined project scope and system boundaries. Finally, 65 % of the projects implemented Industry 4.0 concepts and digital solutions, to increase and accelerate the sustainability impact. In conclusion, the study of sustainability efforts within the complete portfolio of Produktion2030 projects by 2020 showed that the programme is strongly contributing to the transformation of manufacturing industry in Sweden towards sustainability.Produktion2030 has a deep, strategic commitment to address the challenges of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This study shows that Produktion2030 also has an excellent transformational capability to deliver research, innovation, and education results that influences sustainability factors. The results strongly support the manufacturing community in Sweden, allowing industry, academia, and institutes to act towards a more sustainable, resilient, and circular society.
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- Chari, Arpita, 1986, et al.
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Swedish manufacturing practices towards a sustainability transition in industry 4.0 : A resilience perspective
- 2021
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In: Proceedings of the ASME 2021 16th International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, MSEC 2021. - : American Society of Mechanical Engineers. - 9780791885062 ; 1
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Swedish strategic innovation programme, Produktion2030, is a national long-term effort towards global industrial competitiveness addressing Swedish industry’s transition towards climate goals of the European Green Deal while simultaneously realising smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0 (I4.0). This paper investigated the extent of sustainability implementation and implications of I4.0 technologies through a nation-wide quantitative survey in Produktion2030’s 113 collaborative research projects. The analysis showed that 71% of the assessed projects included environmental aspects, 60% social aspects, and 45% Circular Economy (CE) aspects. Further, 65% of the projects implemented I4.0 technologies to increase overall sustainability. The survey results were compared with literature to understand how I4.0 opportunities helped derive sustainability and CE benefits. This detailed mapping of the results along with eight semi-structured interviews revealed that a majority of the projects implemented I4.0 technologies to improve resource efficiency, reduce waste in operations and incorporate CE practices in business models. The results also showed that Swedish manufacturing is progressing in the right direction of sustainability transition by deriving key resilience capabilities from I4.0-based enablers. Industries should actively adopt these capabilities to address the increasingly challenging and unpredictable sustainability issues arising in the world and for a successful transition towards sustainable manufacturing in a digital future.
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- Hedelind, Mikael, et al.
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Factory-in-a-Box - Solutions for Availability and Mobility of Flexible Production Capacity
- 2007
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In: The Swedish Production Symposium,2007.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The objective of this paper is to present examples of how to realize a flexible and reconfigurable production system. An ongoing research project in Sweden called Factory-in-a-Box will be presented which is one research initiative within this area. The purpose of the Factory-in-a-Box project is to develop solutions for mobile production capacity on demand. Three key features have been identified as enablers for these kinds of production capabilities: mobility, flexibility, and speed. The concept consists of standardized modules that can be installed in e.g. containers and easily transported by trucks, rail vehicles, and boats. The modules can easily be combined into complete production systems and reconfigured for new products and/or scaled to handle new volumes. The goal of the Factory-in-a-Box project is to build fully operative production modules that are developed in close cooperation between different academic and industrial partners. This paper will present the results from these demonstrators giving examples of the usability of the Factory-in-a-Box concept in industry.
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- Larsson, Lisa, et al.
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Innovation for competitive manufacturing
- 2015
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper reports perspectives on values and contributions manufacturing innovation bring to meet increased competition in the current changing manufacturing climate. This is obtained through a multiple case study of three manufacturing innovations, mapping values from each case, and analysing how the innovations have contributed to each of the studied firm’s competitiveness. Results show that manufacturing innovation mainly addresses cost and time reductions, but also customer value, to gain competitive advantage and opportunities such as reaching new markets. However, other values such as social and environmental benefits are brought up, which also can be linked to emergent customer demands. The paper contributes to the research community and industry with a new approach to innovation in manufacturing, where global trends of today are taken into consideration.
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- Vallhagen, Johan, 1965, et al.
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Visual Production – strategic manufacturing system development tools for aerospace industry
- 2011
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In: Proceedings XX International Symposium on Air Breathing Engines (ISABE), Göteborg 2011. - 9781600868955
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper addresses thestrategic development of complexaerospace production systems withan approach based on visualisationtechniques. The core issue is howto manage a large variety ofproduct mixes in different phasesof their life-cycle.Many virtual manufacturingtools are, or can be used. However,there are many gaps in terms ofwhat tasks the tools can support aswell as lack of integration betweendifferent tools. The conclusion isthat they don’t provide a completepicture and decision support.A distinction can be made between1) analytics-based tools fordeterministic system optimization;and 2) combinations of sets ofvisualizations for human expertdecisions combining data that isdifficult to integrate.This paper describes the VisualProduction project. It is based onthe second approach and isdeveloping a demonstrator of thecombination and augmentation of ahigh-precision realistic model ofthe real manufacturing system andadditional simulations andinformation models to increasefidelity and usability of thecombined visualization of themanufacturing situation. Theexpected effects are e.g. increasedefficiency and effectiveness duringdevelopment and increased decisionsupport capability by visualizingdifferent perspectives incollaborative expert teamwork.
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- Aschenbrenner, Doris, et al.
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Sustainable human-robot co-production for the bicycle industry
- 2021
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In: Procedia CIRP. - : Elsevier BV. - 2212-8271. ; 104, s. 857-862
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Bicycle production has not changed much over the last 100 years, it is still performed mainly by manual labor in mass production. During the global pandemic, the demand for ecologically friendly and customized transport has increased. Hence, customers start to impose the same requirements on bikes as on cars: they want more customized products and short delivery time. This publication describes an approach to transform bicycle manufacturing towards human-robot co-production to enable smaller batch sizes and production on-shoring. We list the challenges of this transformation, our applied methods, and presents preliminary results of the cobot-driven prototypes.
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- Barletta, Ilaria Giovanna, 1988, et al.
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Prerequisites for a high-level framework to design sustainable plants in the e-waste supply chain
- 2015
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In: Procedia CIRP. - : Elsevier BV. - 2212-8271. ; 29, s. 633-638
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Currently few attempts to properly structure knowledge that specifically supports a fully sustainable e-waste treatment system design have been proposed in literature. As a result, this paper sets up the prerequisites for a high-level framework to design sustainable plants in the supply chain of e-waste. The framework addresses production and environmental engineers mainly. The methodology grows out of literature studies, research project’s outcomes and interviews with a group of sector experts. Stemming from this, a list of prerequisites was presented for the case study of an automated plant for e-waste sorting in order to design it while considering the triple-bottom-line of sustainability.
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- Berg, Magnus, et al.
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Production ramp-up in the manufacturing industry : Findings from a case study
- 2005
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In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Reconfigurable Manufacturing, Ann Arbor, MI, US..
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The paper presents a case study investigating critical factors affecting production ramp-up. The study was performed in an assembly line of a medium-size Swedish manufacturing company. The context and performance during ramp-up was analyzed. Empirical findings indicate that ramp-up performance depends to a large extent on how earlier phases of the product realization process have been carried out. Specifically, supplier choice, relationships with suppliers, involvement of personal, verification of the match between product and process, resource allocation for critical processes, as well as training of assembly personnel seem to have major impact on performance during production ramp-up.
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