Open Lab about Modular Automation
Meeting the robots that will shape the factories of the future
DKK 196m speeds up digitalisation of Danish manufacturing
Denmark will digitalise its manufacturing industry to compete globally with an investment of DKK 196m from Innovation Fund Denmark, 49 companies, five universities, three GTS-Institutes and the Confederation of Danish Industry. The…
MADE Digital – Apply for a Ph.D. position within Smart Industrial Products
Applications are invited for a PhD fellowship/scholarship at Graduate School of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark, within the Engineering programme. The position is available from 1 May 2017 or later.
MADE PhD Francesco has three solutions to a common problem with 3D printing
There are several good reasons for using additive manufacturing – also known as 3D printing – in production. With 3D printing you can quickly design, construct and manufacture unique tools, production equipment…
Smart products improve manufacturing – but be aware of the risks
Following the huge success of smart consumer products, like the smartphone with smart applications, the trend has moved on to industrial devices used in manufacturing. With smart industrial products in manufacturing, you…
RobotUnion calls for innovative robot solutions
The European project RobotUnion is working to speed up the development of new innovative robot solutions. The first round of applications to join the project has just started. In RobotUnion the focus…
Robots and improved flows have brought down delivery time at VOLA
In 2000, VOLA moved to new facilities in Horsens, Denmark, with a vision of building the perfect factory from scratch. However, the Danish manufacturer of high quality taps was experiencing increasing delivery…
Challenges from three companies – and 48 hours to solve them
This year’s MADE PhD and postdoc conference revolved around cases from the companies Aasted, NCC, and Rockwool. 50 young manufacturing researchers associated with the five universities in MADE worked together in teams to solve challenges…
How the Danish robotics industry is addressing Industry 4.0 and digitization
With digitization and new technology comes new possibilities – but also new challenges for companies. At MADE’s General Assembly and Event 2018, digitization, automation and robotics were the topics of discussion. Rohitashwa Pant,…
Electronics manufacturer displaying the way to new markets and customers
Inno-Sign is a Danish manufacturer of electronic displays for gas stations and parking signs. The company has been met with a customer demand of delivering a complete end product – and not just…
The digital twin is here – and that is good news for your products and processes
A digital twin makes it possible to rapidly test and develop new manufacturing processes and systems, before making changes in the real world. It also makes it possible to modify, predict and…
Addifab’s innovative 3D printing approach receives a seal of approval
At the end of 2014, the three entrepreneurs Lasse G. Staal, Jon Jessen, and Peter Lund Sørensen established the company Addifab with the ambition of automatizing the 3D printing process. Addifab has developed…
Five different companies and one common need of improving their technological skills
By participating in a MADE cluster project, Svendborg Motorværksted (Svendborg Motor Workshop) and four other companies have obtained new knowledge of advanced manufacturing technologies such as thermal spraying and laser cladding. Thermal spraying and laser cladding are technologies used…
Five different companies and one common need of improving their technological skills
By participating in a MADE cluster project, Svendborg Motorværksted (Svendborg Motor Workshop) and four other companies have obtained new knowledge of advanced manufacturing technologies such as thermal spraying and laser cladding. Thermal spraying and laser cladding are technologies used…
European initiative to enable digitalization in small and medium-sized enterprises
I4MS is a European initiative created to strengthen the digitization of manufacturing SMEs.
European initiative to enable digitization in small and medium-sized enterprises
I4MS is a European initiative created to strengthen the digitization of manufacturing SMEs. The goal of I4MS is to ensure that SMEs keep up with the digital development, by investing 33 million…
Michael Mischkot’s research can reduce production costs of polymer parts by up to 90 percent and save weeks of time
As a MADE PhD at Technical University of Denmark, Michael Mischkot has been involved in the development of 3D printed inserts for injection molds.
Simon simulates: How to get rid of a barrier to robots
To get a specific part to the robot in the right position is a common challenge when you want a robot to do assembly tasks. A typical solution to this challenge is to…
With a little help from my employees: NS System’s successful introduction of robots and digital tools
The expansion of the collaborative robots from Universal Robots made Niels Rask take a decision some years ago: We are going to have collaborative robots as well. From that point, the owner…
Robots unchained: Cobots are changing manufacturing
In the beginning, there were industrial robots. Enormous, fenced, doing repetitive tasks in large manufacturing companies. The rise of the collaborative robot, a Danish invention, has ushered in a new era for…
Four Danish companies among the 20 startups selected to enter the RobotUnion acceleration programme
Smooth Robotics is developing control systems to welding robots and is one of the Danish winners in the first round of RobotUnion.
MADE is the new Danish Innovation Network for Advanced Manufacturing
MADE has been selected as the operator of the Danish Innovation Network for Advanced Manufacturing for the years 2019 and 2020. For the coming two years, there will be 17 publicly supported innovation networks in…
C-Voucher launches first open call and looks for SMEs with circularity ambitions
C-Voucher is the first pan-European initiative, funded by the European Commission, adopting the concept of the Circular Economy to transform linear value chains (cradle to waste) towards circular models (cradle to cradle®).
3D print has passed the hype phase – now we lack knowledge and competences
Both financially and technologically, 3D printing (additive manufacturing) has turned into an actual alternative to traditional manufacturing methods and processes, even for manufacturing SMEs. In Denmark there has been a growth in…
Virtual reality helped machine builder determine the business case of a new robot
Watch video from Engskov Maskinfabrik’s demonstration project about virtual reality
Digital assistance tools are taking training of employees to the next level
A technology like augmented reality has become a reality in manufacturing over the past few years.
What’s the current state of robotics and what’s in store for 2019? An expert weighs in on the topic
In Denmark and internationally, robotics is one of the hottest topics in manufacturing. Automation and robotics are key areas of interest when it comes to the future of work in the manufacturing…
Production data as a way of establishing the fully automated factory
Kamstrup, a Danish manufacturer of smart meters for energy and water, has been using production data to develop a fully automated production plant in Stilling, Denmark.
Welding of sensors in a quick, stable and secure way
Have a look inside the start-up Sens4 and hear about the attempts to find the right welding process for the company’s sensors (English subtitles available)
Sustainability strategy was a gamechanger for family owned printing house
"It has meant survival to us," Kasper Larsen, Chief Commercial Officer at KLS PurePrint, said in front of almost 150 participants at a MADE conference about the future of Danish manufacturing in…
Andertech's digital transformation from machine supplier to 3D print expert
The Danish company and MADE member Andertech was established in 1984 with a focus on supplying the plastics industries with machines and equipment. Today, Andertech, with Erik Sten Andersen in charge, has…
RobotUnion launches its second open call with 4 million euro public funding for startups and SMEs
RobotUnion, the pan-European acceleration programme related to the robotics industry, has launched its second call with €4 million public funding for startups and SMEs. Through this call, RobotUnion will continue the acceleration…
Airtech is digitizing inventory management – for their own and their customers' sake
For a longer time, Airtech has been thinking of making a digital transformation of how the company is managing inventory and stock for their customers. Airtech's customers work with surface treatments like sandblasting…
The 3D print experiment that reduced prototype development time with 70 percent
It was just an experiment that Plus Pack, a Danish producer of food packaging solutions, launched in the fall of 2018: Will we be able to 3D print components for a tool…
Dolle's digital DNA and future factory
"Digitization and automation have always been part of our DNA," Thorkil Baattrup-Andersen, IT & Product Development Manager at Dolle, stated when MADE went on a industrial visit to the Danish manufacturer of timber…
Sara Shafiee's awards became the shortcut to world-renowned research environments in manufacturing
On November 30, 2017, Sara Shafiee was on the stage at MADE’s Annual Meeting, receiving the 2017 Alexander Foss MADE Award and a standing ovation from the large audience. She was acknowledged…
DAMRC is building an Industry 4.0 factory for SMEs and fills it with old machines
Danish Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (DAMRC) hosted a MADE Open Lab about processing and new production processes. Besides being a showroom of new and advanced machines for processing, the centre is currently…
Esben Østergaard resigns from the MADE Board and becomes a new member of the MADE Advisory Board
After being part of MADE's Board of Directors since the establishment of the MADE Association in 2013, Esben Østergaard, co-founder and former CTO at Universal Robots, resigns from the Board of Directors on…
"I think it's healthy for humanity to be good at manufacturing"
Esben Østergaard is the co-founder and former CTO at Universal Robots, member of MADE Board of Directors 2013–2019 and current member of the MADE Advisory Board. He has a true passion for…