A digital flexible system for handling customer specific demands, and optimized quality control of injection molded microstructures.
This is the essence of the two MADE research projects that win the first edition of The Otto Moensted Foundation’s MADE Award 2019. The first prize of the award goes to Mads Bejlegaard, postdoc at Aalborg University, while the second prize goes to Nikolaos Giannekas, who is a PhD from The Technical University of Denmark (DTU).
The award is sponsored by The Otto Moensted Foundation and pays tribute to the most promising research results from the MADE research platforms and to excellent collaboration between companies, universities and RTOs in MADE.
As a postdoc in MADE Digital, Mads Bejlegaard has worked closely with Sjørring Maskinfabrik in the field of intelligent supply chains.
Sjørring Maskinfabrik produces buckets for excavators and more. In collaboration with the company, Mads Bejlegaard has developed an advanced digital system that can handle customer specific orders and then automatically make the necessary calculations and drawings for the production of the order, based on a digital twin.
“In collaboration with Sjørring Maskinfabrik, Mads Bejlegaard has not only demonstrated that it is possible to create an extremely flexible configuration system in an engineering-to-order environment. He has also shown that it actually offers significant cost reductions and faster production of customer specific solutions,” Bo Stærmose says.
He is the Chairman of the Board at The Otto Moensted Foundation’s MADE Award and a member of the jury that has evaluated the submissions for the award.
“Many Danish SMEs, such as Sjørring Maskinfabrik, are deeply specialized and recognized for the ability to quickly and efficiently deliver high quality customized products and solutions. Therefore, the solution developed in collaboration with Mads Bejlegaard and Aalborg University has great potential for a large group of companies in order to increase flexibility and competitiveness. The jury has also emphasized Mads Bejlegaard’s exemplary collaboration with Sjørring Maskinfabrik’s employees, while at the same time achieving a strong publication record,” Bo Stærmose elaborates.
Grants for study travels abroad
As the winner of the first prize, Mads Bejlegaard – who has previously also been a PhD in MADE – receives a travel grant of DKK 100,000 for a study trip or research stay abroad.
The second prize of The Otto Moensted Foundation’s MADE Award 2019 goes to Nikolaos Giannekas, PhD from DTU and in the MADE research within 3D printing and new production processes.
He receives a travel grant of DKK 50,000, also to make a study trip or research stay abroad.
Nikolaos Giannekas has designed, developed, constructed, validated and put into operation a prototype injection moulding tool with advanced process and product quality control capabilities.
“The jury was extremely impressed by Nikolaos’ pioneering work with real-time quality control of injection molding processes. It is also impressive that he has managed to validate such an advanced, technological solution in an industrial environment as the solution potentially has remarkable efficiency improvements in the quality control of especially large production series,” Bo Stærmose of the Otto Mønsted Foundation says.
Mads Bejlegaard and Nikolaos Giannekas are just two of a strong and large team of manufacturing researchers from MADE’s two research platforms, MADE SPIR and MADE Digital.
There were four nominees for The Otto Moensted Foundation’s MADE Award 2019 as Simon Mathiesen, postdoc at the University of Southern Denmark, and Martin Løkkegaard, industrial postdoc at Aasted and DTU were the two other nominees.
Nominees
- Mads Bejlegaard
MADE Postdoc, Aalborg University - Simon Mathiesen
MADE Postdoc, University of Southern Denmark - Nikolaos Giannekas
MADE PhD, Technical University of Denmark - Martin Løkkegaard
Industrial Postdoc, Technical University of Denmark and Aasted
