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Robotics
Product and Production Development
Biomedical Engineering
Learning and Optimisation
Information Design
Behavioral medicine, health and lifestyle (BeMe-Health)
Care, Recovery & Health
Data Communication
Human
Ecocritical Forum and Ecocritical Comparative Literature
Certifiable Evidences & Justification Engineering
Ubiquitous Computing
Karakuri IoT step 2
The goal of the research project is to develop a hardware and software modular system that allows production workers to easily build and implement simple and low-cost IoT-aided improvement solutions at the production shop floor. We call this simple and low-cost kazien enhanced by such a modular system as “Karakuri IoT”. The modular system, if realized, is expected to contribute to kaizen activities at the shop floor in various ways.
Concluded
Start
2018-04-27
Conclusion
2020-12-31
Main financing
Vinnova
Collaboration partners
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Eskilstuna Elektronikpartner AB, Microsoft Sverige, Seco Tools och Volvo Construction Equipment AB.
Research area
Project manager at MDH
Senior Lecturer
Yuji Yamamoto
+4616153237
yuji.yamamoto@mdh.se
Description of the project
Examples are; realizing simple and low-cost automation especially related to information handling and decision support, empowering production workers by using their creativity and making their own IoT-aided improvement solutions, enhancing the workers’ learning and acceptance of utilizing IoT in production in a bottom-up manner, and supporting small-start implementation of IoT in production. Those benefits are relevant to large companies but also highly relevant to SMEs. The project is driven by one university and two research institutes, namely Mälardalen University, RISE SICS Västerås, and Swerea IVF. It is conducted with close cooperation with large companies and SMEs, such as Volvo Construction Equipment, Seco Tools, Elekttronikpartner, and Mälarplast.