- We are aiming at a more systematic use of available information in production lines, Phd student Michael Lieder says.

The industries of near future demand sustainable and competitive production systems, which set high demands on productivity, flexibility, reduced environmental impact and factory safety.

In collaboration with Chalmers University, Lund University, Scania, Volvo Cars and LEAX, KTH – Royal Institute of Technology has started the project FFI LISA (Line information systems architecture) with the goal of developing an information architecture that can be used in industrial production systems. The architecture is intended to capture data from production lines and convert the captured data into useful and consistent information in order to facilitate decision making in production settings.

Invited to Scania to hold a presentation on future challenges in production technology, professor in Mechanical Engineering, Axel Herrmann spent an afternoon at KTH - Royal Institute of Technology and the Department of Aeronautical and Vehicle Engineering.

Professor Axel Herrmann has over twenty years of experience in structural mechanics and process development for carbon-fiber composites and since 2004, he is president of Composite Technology Center GmbH (CTC), manufacturing of aircraft wings for all Airbus aircraft. A few weeks ago, he visited the Department of Aeronautical and Vehicle Engineering.

Professor Lihui Wang believes that cloud-based services will have a significant impact on future production planning.

Collaborative and Adaptive Process Planning for Sustainable Manufacturing Environments (CAPP-4-SME) is a consortium of eleven partners including four universities, a multinational manufacturing company as well as six small and medium-sized companies from five European countries.

The consortium's main goal is to promote technological innovations for future factories. The diversity of experience and knowledge available within the consortium enables a unique knowledge sharing both technical expertise for industrial applications and the dissemination of research results across Europe