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XPRES

Leader: Magnus Wiktorsson
Members: Magnus Wiktorsson, Monica Bellgran, Mats Jackson, Åsa Lundkvist, Christer Johansson, Marcus Bengtsson, Antti Salonen, Erik Hellström, Sofi W Elfving, Jens von Axelson, Marcus Bjelkemyr, Giacomo Spampinato, Mats Deleryd
Research group:Product Realization
Keywords: strategic research area, KTH, Swerea, production
Status: active , start date: 2010-01-01 , End date: 2014-12-31
Partners:

KTH

MDH

Swerea
Funding: Funding from the Government’s initiative for strategic research areas, as an increase to basic budget appropriation to MDH.
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Overview

The initiative for Excellence in Production Research, XPRES, is a joint initiative between KTH, MDH and Swerea. XPRES was elected as one of two strategic initiatives within Manufacturing engineering in Sweden by the government in 2010. XPRES will establish a long term internationally competitive platform for production research to meet future challenges of world leading Swedish industry. By complementing each others scientific competences and roles, the unique research and education consortium of KTH, MDH and Swerea covers the fields of Production processes, Production systems and Digital engineering. The industrial partners represent world leading Swedish manufacturing industries including: heavy vehicle, machine, component manufacturing and aircraft.
 

Latest project publications [ Show all publications ]


Consideration of Legacy Structures enabling a Double Helix Development of Production Systems and Products, Magnus Wiktorsson, Technology and Manufacturing Process Selection: the Product Life Cycle , Springer, Editor(s): E. Henriques, P. Peças and A. Silva, 2013

Creating a competitive edge when designing production systems – facilitating the sharing of design information, Jessica Bruch, Monica Bellgran, International Journal of Services Sciences, vol 4, nr 3/4, p257-276, Inderscience Publishers, December, 2012

Product Service System Challenges within Telecommunication: Reaching the Era of Mutual Dependency, Sofi W Elfving, Neil Urquhart (Ericsson Global Services Research), 4th CIRP International Conference on Industrial Product-Service Systems, p 269-274, Springer, Tokyo, Japan, Editor(s):Yoshiki Shimomura, Koji Kimita, November, 2012
 

Future work

In total, KTH, MDH, Swerea IVF and Swerea KIMAB in Stockholm have some 120 researchers in production development related areas. With a wide range in their production line, all the companies represent the forefront in their respective branches ‘manufacturing complex, high added value, engineering-based products using advanced processes.’ The XPRES initiative will benefit from this common understanding of the complexity in advanced production systems and the collective experience from previous successful developments and production realizations.

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