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The Nordic Design House For intelligent products. Rune Domsten – Vice President Technology. Prevas in brief. Founded in1985 500+ employees on 10 sites in Sweden, Norway and Denmark Product and technology development Industrial automation Listed on the NASDAQ OMX since 1998
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The Nordic Design HouseFor intelligent products Rune Domsten – Vice President Technology
Prevas in brief • Founded in1985 • 500+ employees on 10 sites in Sweden, Norway and Denmark • Product and technology development • Industrial automation • Listed on the NASDAQ OMX since 1998 • ISO 9001:2000 certified
Professional engineering servicesfor the whole product life cycle Offering portal Innovation Development Transfer to manufacturing Support & Sustaining Specialists from Prevas • Work and projects done at customer’s office • Specialist niche competence • Access to Prevas’ competence network • Software • Electronics • Mechanics • Project management Development at Prevas • Work and projects done in our offices • Advanced infrastructure included • Smart Shoring Platforms • Hardware and software modules • Tools and methods • Documentation
Credit card with fingerprint activation • Fingerprint activation • Dynamic magstribe • Internal battery • 0.4 mm electronics
Robots will invade the world • Vision • GPS • Wireless • Networked – intelligence • Real-time • resource servers
Vision in production systems - potatoes • Camera sorting • Size • Quality • 140.000/hour • Advanced algorithms
Sorting in quality, size and weight • Many criteria's • Sorting any thing in future
Most advanced Real-time systems • Real-time 3D picture generation • Calculation power equal to 5000+ PC’s • Up to 1024 high-speed camera inputs – 120 Gbyte/sec total. • Camera, ultra-sound, radar and combinations
Core ( IT ) competences • Advanced machines or solutions demands advanced algorithms to solve a complex problem • Mathematics • Physics • Optics • Programming – parallel languages • Multi/parallel computer design • ………..
Leading edge products ….. • High level Specialists combined with general (system) understanding • Traditional competencies is most important • Application know-how is easy to learn • Foundation for continuous learning • Some level of communication skills • Some specialists needs special care!!!
To succeed in projects • Advanced products are multi technical and multi disciplinary. • Most products needs to be user friendly • Innovation is not only a technical discipline • More and more often technology comes after innovation
Suggestion to the universities • Focus on true core/basic skills in the hardcore Disciplines • Ensure that every student is working in true cross competence projects several times during the studies • Not just with-in the faculty but across the universities. Medicin, design, anthropologists …… • Reflecting what is the real challenge after studies. • Must be easy to establish using IT. • The process is the essence - not just the result
The ultimate tabletop launcher This is what IT people makes if nobody tells them what to do.
Future devices - toothbrush - Wireless Link to dentist server
The intelligent fork • Combination of sensors and camera • Wireless on-line for analysis support
Advanced - Co driver On-line Car to car intercom Fast brake Take over protection Route information Updated from last car
The ultimate GPS • Driver identification and log • Sleep detection • Video clips ( the cars black box) • Always on-line for remote storage • CO-driver using vision • IR camera for night vision