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Today’s organisations often focus more on execution than on improvement work. This makes them more vulnerable when they are forced to adapt quickly due to new external factors. “My research is about strengthening companies and organisations so that they are well equippe...
How can industry adapt more quickly as products become increasingly customized and variation grows? In a new doctoral thesis from University West, Anders Nilsson shows that automated production systems can become both more flexible and more accessible by shifting the fo...
This autumn, University West will welcome 11 international students who have been awarded scholarships through the Swedish Institute scholarship programmes SI Scholarship for Global Professionals and Pioneering Women in STEM.
Vivek Patel is one of only a few researchers in Sweden working with friction stir welding – a joining process attracting growing international interest. “The process offers many advantages and opportunities for industrial players who want to reduce the environmental imp...
The admission results for this autumn’s international programmes at University West have now been published, and interest remains strong. The number of admitted international students has increased significantly across all programmes compared to the corresponding admiss...
Significant research progress in Additive Manufacturing with laser and wire means that Alfa Laval is now preparing to implement the technology in full-scale production. “The process has become sufficiently fast and robust to be production ready. Within two years, we wil...
Startup Challenge is now open – the business idea competition where students, researchers and doctoral candidates at University West have the opportunity to compete for SEK 25,000 in start-up capital and qualified business development support.
When industrial companies transition to digitalised production, it brings new roles and new ways of working for everyone involved. It’s a shift that can be difficult to put into words. Researcher Linnéa Carlsson asked interview participants to visualise their thoughts o...
On campus in February: International Workshop - Developing a WIL-CHAT agenda for a Future Sustainable Global Society. In the WIL-CAT workshop (Work-Integrated Learning – Centre for Activity Theory), Professor Maria Spante brings together internationally established rese...
University West is responding to the industry’s growing need for welding expertise with a new commissioned training programme leading to the certifications International Welding Engineer (IWE) or International Welding Technologist (IWT). “We look forward to educating m...
New legal requirements for textile collection have created a strained situation for municipalities and other stakeholders who cannot keep up with the increase in textile waste. Could automated pre-sorting be part of the solution? Automation researchers at University Wes...
How can industrial actors succeed in transitioning to sustainable development? Researcher Sandra Samuelsson studies how actors in the municipality of Sotenäs have created a successful symbiosis where residual waste from, among others, the fishing industry becomes raw ma...
The textile and leather industries face major challenges in achieving environmental and social sustainability throughout their production chains. The companies Nudie Jeans and Sandqvist are now collaborating with researchers at University West to explore new approaches ...
Calvin Nau, Jadeline Miao, and 16 other students from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) are participating in University West’s industry-focused research project, PROWIL. “Our collaboration spans three years and could lead to valuable learning for both us and RIT,”...
How can people and technology collaborate as working life and business practices change at an ever-increasing pace? Anna Karin Olsson is a newly appointed professor in Business Administration with a specialization in work-integrated learning at University West. Her rese...