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HANNOVER MESSE 2024 is making an impact with #innovative exhibits, and thousands of people worldwide attending the world's largest engineering show. Machine Maker is reporting from the ground, and bringing you updates every day from 22nd April to 26th April 2024. Vinod Mullasseril, the Digital Transformation Expert, and the Founder of INDEEYA is at #HM24, and sharing his insights for the #global community through Machine Maker. He is committed to bringing change in productivity, through advanced digital tools, through his startup make on INDEEYA. Follow us for continuous updates from Hannover Messe 2024, where #sustainability and #innovation are key themes, highlighting the transformative potential these forces bring to the industry. #HannoverMesse2024 #energysolutions #digitaltransformation #engineeringexcellence #industry #technology #engineering #manufacturing #manufacturingindustry #manufacturingtechnology #machinemaker

The wait is over! Our book chapter titled "The Roles of Makerspaces for Facilitating Open-Source Hardware Development" with Margit Hofer and Robert Mies is now published as part of the book Global collaboration, local production: Fab City als Modell für Kreislaufwirtschaft und nachhaltige Entwicklung published by Springer Gabler.  The chapter shed light on how Fab labs/makerspaces, as openly accessible facilities with Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and local communities of makers, have the potential to act as catalysts to mature and disseminate #Open_Source_Hardware (OSH) local development of products and services collaboratively.  As part of the #EU_Horizon_2020 project OPENNEXT, 17 SMEs joined forces with our four makerspaces clusters in Amsterdam Waag Futurelab, Berlin Prototypes for Europe , Copenhagen Maker, and Vienna Happylab to experiment on new pathways for OSH co-creation, providing a needed model towards a circular economy and sustainable development. Open access available: https://lnkd.in/d4qMkzEt Technische Universität Berlin Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg Fab City Hamburg e.V. #Zentrum_für_Soziale_Innovation

Already another year has passed! Looking back, we can celebrate many milestones and great moments. This is what 2024 brought us:   A big technical achievement has been getting our process ready for sample production. We've coated over 9 kilometres of thin film on 9 different types of substrates. This included coating a large NMC cathode—an essential part for battery production—during a visit from Verkor. It proves what spatial ALD can bring to next-gen battery production and the energy transition.    The biggest leap forward was enabled by the trust of investors Fairtree SIG Group and Innovation Quarter. With their joint investment of 3,5 million euros, we were able to grow and diversify the team. We are very happy to have welcomed Leon Arkesteijn, Sandra Wiegman, Ruan Stapelberg, Jonathan Guzmán and Nahid Torabi to the team. Their arrival has sped up important steps forward in hardware, software and commercial development.  Introducing superspatial ALD to the world has been one of our priorities. We spoke at over 10 seminars about the commercially viable spatial ALD technology in our thin film equipment and joined 2 trade missions by Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) | Partner in Sustainable Development to Sweden and Finland. We hope to have inspired many inventors and manufacturers!    Finally, we are very proud of our new brand identity. It may feel like 'just aesthetics', but we couldn't be happier to have our ambition, drives and promise aligned with how Kalpana Systems as a brand now looks and feels. In particular, we believe that our product animation made by Studio Analoog will support our commercial efforts.     We can't wait to keep up this progress in 2025! Thanks to all who supported us this year. Enjoy the holidays with your friends and family! On behalve of our team: Diederick Spee Kees Boshuijer Sander ten Kate

🌬️ 🚙 💨 How do you grease the wheels for innovation? 🛞 A wheel, by rolling rather than dragging, minimizes friction between an object and a surface, allowing for smooth and efficient movement. #skapa by Saab’s Innovation Flywheel, likewise, supports smooth and efficient innovation cycles. 🦺 I see a big part of my role in optimizing the conditions for innovation wheels to rotate with sufficient torque toward maximal value under minimal friction; this takes on many forms, like - ↗️ ensuring wheels are aligned with operator needs and business & technology goals - 🤒 the pressure and temperature conditions are just right, avoiding burnout and maintaining healthy, swift pace - 🪠 the brake drag is minimal, shedding technical debt (yes that was the plunger emoji!) - 🧹 the surface is smooth, continuously evaluating & deploying modern tools and processes - 🏋️♂️ the load is manageable and we are carrying the right stuff, prioritizing what is most important to iterate on, and - 💸 the wind is at our back & the bearings are greased, adequately resourced and supported from all sides. 🤝 The work is never done in optimizing any one of these conditions and I recognize that collaboration across functions is key - I am grateful to have eager cross-functional Teammates and the ability to tap into our operationally-focused innovation accelerator, #Skapa, to support fast prototyping of new technology developments, tools and ways of working at Saab, Inc. #codevelopwithus Chad - Rachel - Monica - Rob - Michael - Devaki - Paige - Kayla - Christopher - Christopher - Devesh - Julie - Caitlin - Kathleen - Deirdre - Michaela - Robert - craig - Karen - Mark - Zack - Chris - Katherine 🛫 PS – given the theme of this post 🛞 I also feel obligated to reshare that Saab does not make cars anymore! #everythingexceptcars https://lnkd.in/ghH9dwc7

Less than three weeks until #SLAS2025! Stop by booth 1831 to see how our solutions simplify workflows and let labs focus on discovery. Innovation starts here! #LabAutomation

💡 Introducing the #Skapa #Innovation #Flywheel which highlights our approach to help solve the warfighter’s most challenging operational problems, FAST. 🔄 The Skapa Innovation Flywheel is a virtuous cycle which begins with our toughest problems and ends with scalable solutions to solve them. The flywheel has 4 phases. 1️⃣ #IMAGINE - We swarm on the problem with a hyper talented and diverse cross-functional team, including the end user and IMAGINE novel solutions to that problem, informed by, but not constrained by the past. Our most valuable piece of tech during this phase is “the whiteboard”. We believe anything is possible. 2️⃣ #CREATE - We transition those BIG, BOLD ideas into reality and create a minimum viable product (MVP) designed to solve the problem. Skapa in Swedish, means “to create” its not just a name to us, its who we are. We are #creators. 3️⃣ #ITERATE - We take that MVP and get it in the hands of the end user, in the operational environment vs REAL PROBLEMS. We take the MVP to the point of failure, then improve our product, again and again until we have a scalable product. We believe truly game changing capabilities are on the other side of failure. 4️⃣ #INTERSECT - We go straight at the problem AT SCALE with our solution which has been tested and tailored to solve our most pressing challenges. We leverage Saab’s proven global capabilities and history of building world-class hardware and software. Then Skapa by Saab is on to the next BIG problem. 🧬 #TripleHelix - The Skapa Innovation Flywheel is powered by radical collaboration with our Partners across the triple-helix (Gov’t, Academia and Industry) 📖 If you would like to know more, I hope you take a moment to click on the link below and read the piece that Rob Murray MBA and I penned which highlights why we created the Skapa Innovation Flywheel, how it is executed and the outcomes we endeavor to achieve. Much good lies ahead 👊🏻😎🚀 Erik Smith - Julia Filiberti Allen - Rob Murray MBA - Devaki Raj - Paige Kassalen - Devesh U. - Peter Mirisola #Skapa by Saab - Keeping people and society safe Saab, Inc.

It's just that simple. See how you can make it happen with Acres in G2E Booth 4211. Book your in-person meeting today: https://lnkd.in/esGYmzeA #G2E2024 #innovators #gamechanger #AcresManufacturing

Yesterday, led by Cattail Strategy, we jointly ran an online workshop with funders & practitioners on the future of AR4D in Africa, using the Three Horizons tool. Many take the 3 horizon curves as a given, however by understanding the 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏 of transformation that's playing out ('shape of the curves'), we can support better decision making in the innovation horizon, H2. In our workshop, we used 3 different potential patterns of transformation & the drivers behind them, to help fuel creative thinking around how to best support innovation in Horizon 2. If you want to practice yourself, you can find some common transformation variants on the H3Uni website (link in comments). And here you see the curious transformation pattern when applying 3H to the new materials sector (something we did last year for BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt).

On April 22nd, we were thrilled to attend the AMI Stretch and Shrink Film 2024 event hosted by AMI. One of the highlights was our visit to ITENE and their impressive laboratories. 🧪 🚚 Specifically, our visit to the Transport Simulation Laboratory highlighted the significant benefits of using transport simulation machines. While the fundamental purpose of primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging is comprehensive product protection, it can occasionally fall short. This is where transport simulation becomes crucial, refining packaging designs to ensure: ✅ Damage Prevention ✅ Cost Efficiency ✅ Regulatory Compliance ✅ Product Safety ✅ Innovation and Design Optimization 🌟 Our engineer, Dr. Manuel Garcia Romeu, and Víctor Gallego González, Coordinator of the Packaging and Transportation Simulation Laboratory at ITENE, hosted a live demo discussing load stability, Eumos, and our innovative patented testing method, innSlide Boomerang. 🔍 Discover more about how to take packaging safety and efficiency to the next level. #PackagingInnovation #TransportSimulation #Sustainability #SafetyFirst #ITENE #AMIEvent2024 #SafeLoadTestingTechnologies

From chocolate to steel, and start-ups to traditional industries, digital technologies are transforming modern industrial operations. Our new ROKStudios series, filmed at #AutomationFair 2024, brings together industry leaders and technological visionaries, who all have a story to tell about their digitally driven successes. Read the announcement here and start imagining what you could achieve https://rok.auto/408doX0