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At Blekinge Tekniska Högskola (BTH), we are thrilled to announce that our COLLIDE-XR project has officially been accepted for funding and support! This groundbreaking initiative is set to redefine the landscape of XR (Extended Reality) and AI technologies, emphasizing accessibility and innovation, all while promoting sustainable transformations in industries. By establishing key partnerships in both Sweden and the U.S., […]

PhD students Carl Toller Melén and Raj Jiten Machchhar, together with Prof. Tobias Lasson as their mentor from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola (BTH), have been selected to participate in the SPIRIT (Swedish Programme for Innovative Researchers Impact Training) Programme, a national initiative designed to train researchers in the commercial utilization of their research. The programme, which focuses on translating academic work […]

Professor Marco Bertoni together with co-editors Giuditta Pezzotta, Roberto Sala, Xavier Boucher and Fabiana Pirola are releasing a book on Data-Driven Decision Making for Product Service Systems. It can be preordered at https://www.akademibokhandeln.se/bok/data-driven-decision-making-for-product-service-systems/9783031600814. Also available as e-book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-60082-1 Marco here gives his view on the book. Why is this book needed? “We observe in our day-to-day activity how manufacturing companies are progressively shifting from selling […]

Omsri Aeddula successfully defended his PhD thesis “Navigating Data Challenges: AI-Driven Decision Support for Product-Service System Development” in front of a full house of 50 people in the room and online. Omsri made a popular presentation of his research and took the audience through his findings and application cases within mechanical engineering and applied health technology, […]

Yan Zhang presented his licentiate thesis entitled “Value co-creation for sustainable product service system design” in front of a crowd of local audience and online listeners. Yan made a popular presentation of the background of his research and the findings up until this point, where the servitization of industry is a driving force for digitalisation and […]

Tamara Carleton is recognised in the American “Women We admire” magazine, in their Top 50 Women Leaders in Education of 2023. Tamara is a professor at the department of mechanical engineering at BTH, among other things Tamara holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering from Stanford University and has been working at BTH for many years. […]

Carl Toller Melén presented his licentiate thesis entitled “Exploring non-functional requirements in digital Product-Service System design” in front of an +50 people hybrid audience of physically present people and online listeners. Carl made a popular presentation of the background of his research and the findings up until this point, where the servitization of indystry is a […]

Alexander Barlo is since early 2021 a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at BTH. He is working with failure prediction in Sheet Metal Forming (SMF). Accurate failure prediction in Sheet Metal Forming (SMF) is a core task for all Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) departments within e.g., the automotive industry. Simulation based failure prediction of the […]

Together with Volvo Cars (Olofström), Telenor Connexion and Blue Science Part as coordinator, a research and application project has been carried out within the “Test arena Blekinge” with the aim of transforming theory into practically applicable knowledge in Industry 4.0. Industrial digitalisation has been going on since the 1990s, and with the development of the […]

September 22 Johan Pilthammar defended his PhD thesis ”Towards Virtual Tryout and Digital Twins: Enhanced Modeling of Elastic Dies, Sheet Materials, and Friction in Sheet Metal Forming” in the subject of mechanical engineering. Examiner and main supervisor: Prof. Sharon Kao-Walter, BTH Supervisor: Dr. Mats Sigvant, BTH/Volvo Cars Opponent: Prof. Wolfram Volk (Technische Universität München, Germany) Grading […]