Sustainable Production powered by Industrial Digitalisation
With its research in the intersection of manufacturing, sustainability and digital technologies, MDU’s mission is to address major societal and industrial challenges such as environmental sustainability, resource efficiency and economic competitiveness. By leveraging digital tools such as AI, 5G and digital twins, the research supports manufacturing industry in making production more efficient but also user and climate friendly - creating smart, sustainable jobs for the future.
Initiaitive description
This research initiative at MDU supports the shift toward a more sustainable and digitalized manufacturing industry. It brings together knowledge from production systems and advanced digital technologies to help companies tackle challenges such as waste, emissions and global competition. The research explores how tools like digital twins, AI and connected systems can enable smarter decisions, circularity and flexible production. With strong ties to industry and hands-on testing, the work helps companies not only adopt new technology but also build strategies and processes that support long-term, human-centered transformation.
Initiative results
The XPRES initiative has facilitated a successful development of the MDU reserach group within Production systems. The group has recruited three full professors within computer science, focusing on Industrial Internet of Things, Digital Twins, and Artificial Intelligence. Further, six new Associate professors have been appointed. Our research in Circular business models for EV batteries has recieved 18.5 million funding and been included in the IVA’s 100 list of impactful research projects in Sweden for 2022.
As a result of the XPRES initiative, the MDU Production research group has attracted funding for the IndTech industrial technology graduate school, employing a total of 20 industry employed PhD students within data driven manufacturing. Further, as a result of the XPRES initiative, MDU have secured 111 million SEK funding for the project MARC for development of advanced automation and robot technologies in close collaboration with Sweden’s leading automation companies.