Events

Secondment

By Thomas Draschbacher on Jul 1st, 2024

In July, I had the privilege to spend a research stay at Worcester Polytechnic Institute for working on Hashtag#CircularBusinessModels together with Joseph Sarkis, who is one of the leading experts in this field.

Our work is part of the project "SME 5.0: A Strategic Roadmap Towards the Next Level of Intelligent, Sustainable and Human-Centered SMEs".

I want to thank everybody at WPI and TU Graz who supported me before, during and after this stay. The project is funded by the European Union's HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01-01 program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101086487.
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Poster Presentation _ EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF)

By Marwa Ben Ali on Jun 12th, 2024

On 12.06.2024 Dr. Marwa Ben Ali presented a poster titled “SME 5.0 - WHY DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IS AN ENABLER FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT WITHIN INDUSTRY 5.0” at EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) 2024, Katowice, Poland.

During the event, a presentation on the SME 5.0 project was also given, aiming to introduce the project to a wider audience.
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Special lecture SME 5.0 to Thai SMEs.

By Sakgasem on Jun 11th, 2024

Dr.Poti Chao of Chiamg Mai University gives special lecture on SME5.0 to 10 SMEs in Thailand during a Quadruple-Helix seminar between University, SME, government agencies and social enterprise at Science an Technology Park Chaing Mai University (STeP CMU).

The lecture includes fruitful discusion on challenges and limitations on Thai SMEs.
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Secondment at the University of Malta

By Tanel Aruväli on May 21st, 2024

The secondment at the University of Malta lasts 5 weeks.

During this time I went through several interesting and educative activities. Starting with a digital manufacturing laboratory tour and studying doctoral students’ research projects, until the company visit and cultural program in the old capital.

The main aim was to elaborate on research with my host, Prof Emmanuel Francalanza, and submit a conference paper to the ISM2024 conference. The collaboration was successful and our ideas fit well to collect SMEs’ requirements for resilience perspective and evaluate CPPS main characteristics based on these requirements.

In addition, I participated in the SME 5.0 midterm meeting where I had a great opportunity to see the participants from most of the contributing universities.
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Guest lecture in Digital manufacturing study course at the University of Malta

By Tanel Aruväli on May 13th, 2024

I gave a guest lecture in Digital Manufacturing study course.

I introduced the digital factory concept and we compared the competing terms, such as smart factory, Industry 4.0 factory and intelligent factory. We went through digital factory life-cycle and digital factory tools. It was great to work with interested and motivated students.
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Company visit: Leifert Ltd.

By Tanel Aruväli on May 10th, 2024

We visited a company Seifert Ltd.

The company produces primarily thermal management systems. It is a family company brought over from Germany. The third-generation representative gave us a short introduction of the company and guided a shop floor tour. It was one of the few times, I was able to hear what was spoken in the factory as our guide was excellent in managing his voice.

The factory has been constantly expanding for several years, complementing its know-how and the range of manufacturing processes.

Also, the automation level in the cutting processes was impressive, while assembly processes were mainly manual. This was another great and interesting experience during the secondment.
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TRAKE 3rd Research Seminar

By Tanel Aruväli on May 3rd, 2024

Students introduced their projects, which were funded through the Transdisciplinary Research and Knowledge Exchange Complex (TRAKE) program.

10 interesting projects in various fields were introduced, including topics from mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, and pharmaceutical engineering.

All the projects were pragmatic and born from real-life problems.

Some examples of the project topics that were addressed were the following: how to manage aircraft emergency landings landing site selection and the landing trajectory, how to reduce fatigue stress in automotive gears using laser shock peening, how brain-computer interface can benefit wheelchair driving, etc.

The event took place in the foyer of the Engineering Research Innovation Labs building.
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Lecture at the Machine Intelligence Research Lab at Deakin University

By Anika Terbuch on Apr 24th, 2024

On April 24, Dr. Anika Terbuch was invited to give a talk at the monthly meeting of the Machine Intelligence Lab at Deakin University, which conducts interdisciplinary research in the field of machine intelligence.

The talk was titled "Machine Learning in Engineering" and gave the audience an overview of the current research in the field of Machine Intelligence at the Chair of Automation and Measurement at MUL. It was also the last meeting of the two-month secondment at Deakin and summarized some of the activities and progress. Thanks to Dr. Duc Thanh Nguyen for organizing the event.
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TU Graz Vehicle testing lab visit

By Nakorn Tippayawong on Apr 23rd, 2024

Dr Konstantin Weller of TU Graz - Institute of Thermodynamics and Sustainable Propulsion Systems welcomed Drs Nakorn Tippayawong & Dr Korrakot Yaibuathet Tippayawong and gave them an academic tour about his medium and heavy duty vehicle testing facilities.
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