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Our recently appointed professor of automation, Fredrik Danielsson, is convinced that future industrial robots will be smarter and be able to do more advanced tasks so that staff can focus on other things. “The great challenge for us as researchers is connecting artific...

Additive manufacturing comes with many advantages over conventional methods. But how well does it perform in the production of high-performance components that are exposed to continuously changing loads, for example in aircraft engines? This is one of the questions that...

Rapidly changing technology places completely new demands for expertise on industrial employees. University West is meeting this challenge with 10 advanced courses and programmes in production engineering for both experienced engineers and students.

According to GKN Aerospace in Trollhättan, long–term research and development work is vital in closing new business deals. The company invests heavily in research collaboration with University West and several other universities. At present, about 60 doctoral students w...

In the future, damaged bones can be re-built with 3D-printed implants that have thermal sprayed surface layers so that they are more readily accepted by the human body. University West has started a new exciting research project together with Vellore Institute of Techno...

Tahira Raza's research opens up entirely new opportunities to make air- and spacecraft engines more environmentally friendly. She is one of the few in the world to study the weldability of components produced by additive manufacturing with powder bed. It is an important...

University West’s graduate student Ana Magalhães has demonstrated that what was previously considered impossible actually works; namely, robotic welding components with complex geometries in aluminum using friction stir welding (FSW). – With effective temperature contr...

3D video game graphics, crash tests and satellite collisions. These have been sources of inspiration when Ashwin Devotta has researched new work methods in the development of cutting tools. "The simulation allows us to predict exactly what happens when the tool cuts int...

This year's grant of SEK 80 million from the KK Foundation will be used for twelve new research projects that will make Swedish industry more competitive. The largest project, PODFAM, focuses on metal-based additive manufacturing.

– For us, it is a record dividend for a single Vinnova program. It strengthens and broadens our research in additive manufacturing and welding – and with materials we have not researched before, comments Lennart Malmsköld, Primus program manager, University West.

Alexandre Minvielle from France has just completed a project course in automation at University West. He recently met TYRI, a Gothenburg-based company that develops work lights for off highway applications, and presented his ideas on how they could automate the mounting...

During two days postgraduate students met at University West to share their professional experiences and to meet PhD-students. It’s the first alumni meeting for postgraduate students who have received a doctor or licentiate degree from the research environment Productio...

Christer Fuglesang, Sweden’s first and only astronaut, was greeted with loud cheers and applause as he took the stage at University West. The audience consisted of five hundred secondary school students who eagerly awaited hearing about his two trips to space.

Sweets from Brasil, churrus – which reminds the baker of a sunny Sunday in Spain, baklava and Persian cookies from Iran, Indian spicy potatoes fried in oil, Swedish “äggost” with jam. And even more treats from China, Sudan, Germany, Sri Lanka and  Poland – what a fantas...

Duplex stainless steels are excellent choices in designs with high demands in terms of strength, corrosion-resistance and low weight. Despite their advantages these steels are only used to a limited extent because they are more complicated to weld than traditional stain...