Ongoing projects

The industry is challenged to comply with increasingly demanding societal and customer needs. Various stakeholders must be engaged throughout the development process. Models and simulations are used to assess new solutions and optimize current ones, foresee decisions’ implications, and make them explainable within the company and with customers. However, diversity in background, knowledge, and expectations among the stakeholders, raises the risk of misunderstandings in communicating values and tradeoffs, leading customers to hesitate when adopting innovative and sustainable solutions. Extended Reality (XR) is a promising problem solver to make the experience with solutions and visual data more accessible. The offer of…

Resilience in electricity & charging systems - challenges and opportunities with marine public transport The project will investigate possible electrical systems for a transport system with passenger ferries in urban public transport. Investigate how a marine transport system can be integrated with energy storage and the power grid, and at the same time be flexible to withstand disturbances. This includes energy efficiency, resilience, charging and land infrastructure. The goal is to increase knowledge about system limitations, requirements for the transport system and the electricity infrastructure in order to maintain transport capacity in the event of disturbances. As well as requirements…

DemoCreate - Creative power for a democratic society DemoCreate är ett tvärgående, transformativt innovationsprogram för den kreativa sektorn. Genom att frigöra och förstärka den demokratiska och innovativa kraften hos kulturella och kreativa näringar är målet att bygga ett dynamiskt och inkluderande samhälle som värnar om alla medborgares grundläggande friheter. Arbetet utgår från att ett fritt och levande kulturliv är fundamentalt för svenskt välstånd och konkurrenskraft, och avser att bli en samlande arena för missionsdriven forskning, samverkan och utveckling i gränssnittet kreativitet, digitalisering och demokrati. DemoCreate ska identifiera avgörande innovationspotential i den kreativa sfären och tar avstamp i frågor om skapande, produktion, spridning,…

News 202406: Procurement finalized and Creative Technology the winner of the 13.5 MSEK tech order, delivery expected July/August. 202405: New projects approved that include VPSL as infrastructure; AXESS – Assessment in XR Environments for Sustainable Solutions | 2024-2027, PROSUCCO – PRO SUstainable Co-COnfiguration | 2024, RECS – Resilience in electricity & charging systems | 2024-2025 202402: Depeening the Virtual Production skills at BTH! 202402: Rebuild of BTH facilities to host the VPSL lab ongoing. The project The Virtual Production Studio Lab project is led by Blekinge Institute of Technology and will be a technically innovative arena and a place where…

The rock material industry is one of the 21 industries that participate and together these 21 cover more than 70 percent of the emissions in Sweden. Achieving the high environmental goals in rock material production requires not only a transition to fossil- and emission-free operations, but also new thinking in terms of process and new machine concepts. The approach is to develop a new system solution for rock unloading that takes into account the boundary conditions that electrification entails. The long-term goal is to make the ballast production chain fossil-free. The subsystem in focus of this project is the process…

In the project we are developing digitalized services to increase the level of trusted decision making to optimise overall site systems in off-road transport applications. By developing data-driven models for real-time simulation and optimisation of customer site operations, combined with advanced data analytics, we move from the current experience-based process to a model-based process that will enable us to deliver customer value in terms of services and trusted decision support. Developed models will be tested in a realistic testbed for a final demonstration. The project will deliver in the short - and medium term in the form of services and…

The products that surround us (e.g. furniture, bicycles, etc.) are outcomes of design processes. Product design is a fundamental aspect of human intelligence and creativity, attracting not only experts but also workers and self- employed without any formal design training. Although numerous people in developing countries design and manufact simple products in metalworking informal microenterprises, there is very little systematic knowledge about their design process. This project aims to fill this fundamental gap in design knowledge. The overall goal of the project is to investigate the design process in metalworking informal microenterprises, using a scientific method of ‘think-aloud protocol analysis’.…

Update 2024! MakerTruck blir nu "Mobilt Science Center" och är under Kreativums flagga. "Kreativum Science Center startar upp ett mobilt science center för att nå ut till fler barn och unga i Blekinge. Med projektet Maker Truck Blekinge kompletteras Kreativum science center-verksamhet med en mobil verksamhet. Under 2024 genomför Kreativum tillsammans med Blekinge Tekniska Högskola ett Makerspace-projekt “Maker Truck Blekinge”, där Kreativum Science Center blir mobilt. Under året kommer besök att genomföras på skolor, fritidshem och bostadsområden och andra platser i regionen där unga finns. Initialt kommer besök genomföras på skolor i Karlskrona, Sölvesborg och Ronneby, fritidshem i Olofström samt bostadsområden i…