{"id":881,"date":"2021-05-24T16:49:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T14:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/?p=881"},"modified":"2021-05-24T16:58:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T14:58:10","slug":"is-the-idea-feasible-ask-the-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/2021\/05\/is-the-idea-feasible-ask-the-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the idea feasible? Ask the workshop!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In English further down.<\/p>\n

H\u00e5ller id\u00e9n? Fr\u00e5ga verkstan!<\/h2>\n

Verkstan p\u00e5 Maskinteknik \u00e4r innovationens hj\u00e4rta och\u00a0st\u00f6ttar b\u00e5de forskning och utbildning. H\u00e4r har det under \u00e5ren jobbat personer som tj\u00e4nar som en\u00a0brygga mellan teori och praktik.<\/p>\n

Under min egen studietid s\u00e5 hade jag en v\u00e4ldig respekt f\u00f6r de som d\u00e5 ansvarade f\u00f6r MMKs verkstad.\u00a0Dessa personer skapade en verklighetsf\u00f6rankring till de studentprojekt vi jobbade med.\u00a0De\u00a0\u00e4r det sista steget i en l\u00e5ng produktutvecklingskedja, den slutliga verifieringen p\u00e5 att id\u00e9n h\u00e5ller.\u00a0En av mina f\u00f6rsta intryck av verkstaden var n\u00e4r jag l\u00e4mnade in ritningar till en slags v\u00e4xel som jag hade konstruerat i ett projekt. Den som d\u00e5 ansvarade f\u00f6r verkstan tog emot ritningen och sa \u201dhur t\u00e4nkte du att vi skulle tillverka det h\u00e4r d\u00e5? Borra fyrkantiga h\u00e5l?\u201d.<\/p>\n

F\u00f6rra veckan tackade vi av Tomas \u00d6 som ansvarat f\u00f6r Maskintekniks verkstad de senaste tio \u00e5ren men som nu g\u00e5r i pension efter totalt 48 \u00e5r p\u00e5 KTH.\u00a0Tomas\u00a0har\u00a0byggt\u00a0riggar till forskningsexperiment och prototyper till studentprojekt.<\/p>\n

Tomas pratar idag om att\u00a0ers\u00e4tta labbar med simuleringar, vi jobbar mer och mer med studier av fenomen och mindre av verifiering och validering. Det \u00e4r inte alltid det \u00e4r s\u00e5 viktigt l\u00e4ngre att ta det sista steget fr\u00e5n ritning till produkt, fr\u00e5n id\u00e9 och koncept till fysisk modell.<\/p>\n

N\u00e4r Tomas\u00a0nu\u00a0g\u00e5r i pension t\u00e4nker jag att det kanske \u00e4r detta sista steg som \u00e4r k\u00e4rnan i att vara en teknisk h\u00f6gskola. Om vi inte klarar av att ta det sista steget i en produktutveckling, att verifiera en produkt, att ta fram en fysisk prototyp, att realisera en id\u00e9, d\u00e5 tycker jag inte att vi \u00e4r v\u00e4rda att kalla oss en teknisk h\u00f6gskola. Kanske en teoretisk h\u00f6gskola. Skillnaden mellan dessa kan ligga i begreppet ingenj\u00f6rskonst (t\u00e4nk Vetenskap och Konst).\u00a0Idag\u00a0t\u00e4nker ocks\u00e5 idag p\u00e5 den l\u00e4rarg\u00e4rning som Tomas och hans f\u00f6retr\u00e4dare har haft p\u00e5 KTH under dessa \u00e5r\u00a0\u2013 och\u00a0alla andra studenter som liksom jag f\u00f6rs\u00f6kt borra fyrkantiga h\u00e5l.<\/p>\n

\/Martin Edin Grimheden, prefekt vid Institutionen f\u00f6r maskinkonstruktion<\/p>\n

Is the idea feasible? Ask the workshop!<\/h2>\n

The workshop at Machine Design is the heart of innovation and supports both research and education. Over the years, people who have worked here serve as a bridge between theory and practice. During my own time as a student, I had a lot of respect for those who were responsible for the workshop at Machine Design at the time. They made the student projects we worked on more real. These people serve as the last step in a long product development chain, the final verification that the idea holds. One of my first impressions of the workshop was when I submitted drawings for some kind of gear that I had designed in a project. The person who was responsible for the workshop received the drawing and said: \u201cSo, how do you expect us to do this? Drill square holes? \u201d.<\/p>\n

Last week we\u00a0celebrated\u00a0Tomas \u00d6stberg\u2019s last day at work. He\u2019s been responsible for\u00a0Machine Design\u2019s\u00a0workshop for the past ten years and is now retiring after a total of 48 years at KTH.\u00a0Tomas has built rigs for research experiments and prototypes for student projects.<\/p>\n

Nowadays\u00a0Tomas talks about replacing labs with simulations, we work more and more with studies of phenomena and less of verification and validation. It is not always\u00a0as\u00a0important to take the\u00a0leap\u00a0from drawing to\u00a0a\u00a0product, from idea and concept to\u00a0a\u00a0physical model.<\/p>\n

When Tomas now retires, I think that perhaps this is the last step that is the core of being a technical\u00a0university. If we are not able to take the last step in a product development\u00a0chain, to verify a product, to develop a physical prototype, to realize an idea, then I\u2019m, not sure we are worth calling ourselves a technical\u00a0university. Maybe a theoretical\u00a0university. The difference between these may lie in the concept of engineering (think Science and Art). And today I\u00a0also think of the teaching\u00a0efforts done by\u00a0Tomas and his\u00a0colleagues\u00a0have\u00a0done\u00a0at KTH during these years – and all the other students who\u00a0like me\u00a0tried to drill square holes.<\/p>\n

\/Martin Edin Grimheden, Head of the Department of Machine Design<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In English further down. H\u00e5ller id\u00e9n? Fr\u00e5ga verkstan! Verkstan p\u00e5 Maskinteknik \u00e4r innovationens hj\u00e4rta och\u00a0st\u00f6ttar b\u00e5de forskning och utbildning. H\u00e4r har det under \u00e5ren jobbat personer som tj\u00e4nar som en\u00a0brygga mellan teori och praktik. Under min egen studietid s\u00e5 hade jag en v\u00e4ldig respekt f\u00f6r de som d\u00e5 ansvarade f\u00f6r MMKs verkstad.\u00a0Dessa personer skapade en […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1212,"featured_media":886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[44],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-blogger","tag-martin-edin-grimheden"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/files\/2021\/05\/Martin-Edin-Grimheden067A1330_by-Anneli-Nygards_1000-560_2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6P3xp-ed","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}