By immersion in the situation of the food production today and a historical study of how past development has led us to this point, one goal of this essay is to discuss whether the current way of farming can be applied in a sustainable future. Another objective of the essay is to study the vision Vertical farming as an alternative approach, and to focus on different aspects of this phenomenon in order to provide as comprehensive a picture as possible.The paper, thus, seeks to broaden the views for alternative approaches regarding a well-established method which we often take for granted. The aim is also to initiate a discussion around the need to also take radical ideas in regard if we want to face the future in a sustainable manner. The method is a qualitative literary study where scientific articles and papers have been used to discuss the issues: why has the idea of Vertical farming arisen, what is Vertical farming and how is the Vertical Farm meant to operate? Does Vertical farming have a place in the sustainable city of the future? For a long time us humans lived as one with nature, in a symbiotic relationship in which we gave and took as a functioning part of an ecosystem.

This paper describes the design and implementation of an automated build system for the JAS39A simulator FUS39A at HiQ:s offices in Arboga. The assignment was to automate the process in which modules are built; the simulator is composed of a number of modules which are built manually at the end of each week, this process takes about a day of manual labor. The system can automatically build a module as either a scheduled service or by manual invocation. The system contains functionality for reporting the build results to any given recipient by e-mail. The purpose of the system is to free up the time put into manually building the modules for better suited tasks by automating the build of FUS39A.The assignment was split into two parts, an analysis part where information of the old system was gathered, tools and methods were chosen and the new system was designed.

De senaste åren har konkurrensen inom textilbranschen ökat avsevärt. Produkter på modemarknaden är fler. Den förändrade efterfrågan ifrån kunder innebär att kunden kräver nyheter oftare och det har lett till snabba trendväxlingar. Ledtider måste kortas om modeföretag ska vara beredda på de snabba trendväxlingarna. De korta ledtiderna ställer krav på effektivitet och flexibilitet i företagens processer.

In the current situation is the straight tube cutter, that provides Luvata?s line of large recoolers with copper tubes, manually operated. To prevent damages and facilitate mounting the tubes must be properly arranged when they leave the machine. This report aims to investigate and present an automated solution where the operator does not need to participate in the process. A number of theories have been drawn up and tests have been done.

Denna kandidatuppsats i landsbygdsutveckling handlar om regeringens vision om Sverige ? det nya matlandet. Med utgångspunkt i måldokumentet På god väg. Måldokument för Matlandet mot år 2020 har en analys av textens innehåll gjorts. Syftet har varit att undersöka hur beskrivningen av Matlandet Sverige kan ses som ett uttryck för rådande diskurser och kulturella värderingar.

This thesis describes new methods for automatic crack detection in pavements. Cracks in pavements can be used as an early indication for the need of reparation.Automatic crack detection is preferable compared to manual inventory; the repeatability can be better, the inventory can be done at a higher speed and can be done without interruption of the traffic.The automatic and semi-automatic crack detection systems that exist today use Image Analysis methods. There are today powerful methods available in the area of Computer Vision. These methods work in higher dimensions with greater complexity and generate measures of local signal properties, while Image Analyses methods for crack detection use morphological operations on binary images.Methods for digitalizing video data on VHS-cassettes and stitching images from nearby frames have been developed.Four methods for crack detection have been evaluated, and two of them have been used to form a crack detection and classification program implemented in the calculation program Matlab.One image set was used during the implementation and another image set was used for validation. The crack detection system did perform correct detection on 99.2 percent when analysing the images which were used during implementation.

Detta arbete täcker utvecklingen av ett hemautomationssystem som tillåter hushåll att sänka sin elkonsumtion och miljöpåverkan. Samtidigt som det ger den boende ett sätt att spara pengar samt ett bekvämt sätt att fjärrstyra sitt hem.Arbetet utvärderar också vilka delar som är viktiga för att i framtiden hitta en lösning som täcker alla problem med det utvecklade systemet.Systemet består av en nätverksenhet som vidarebefordrar signaler/meddelanden till en s.k. fjärrströmbrytare för att kunna kontrollera t.ex. lampor och värme i ett hus. Den kan också ta emot data från sensorer och skicka denna tillbaka till användaren.

The study investigates the use of collection and treatment wagon for piglets in relation to castration. The importance of good and ergonomically designed tools in pig stables can probably reduce the risk of suffering from musculoskeletal disorders (MSD). During the last 20 years the number of pig farms has decreased and at the same time the herd sizes and the number of pig keepers have increased (Statistic Sweden (SCB) 2007). As a consequence, the pig keepers have more pigs to take care of, treat and neuter and spend more of their daily work in these large confinements. This also means that the repetitive work e.g.

IT is often seen as a solution to many problems concerning effectiveness in organizations. Information systems within the healthcare sector is often viewed as medical devices rather than just systems or services. These medical devices are thoroughly regulated by laws, standards and certifications. In this study I participated in an innovative project that aimed to bring new life and use to the old fashioned patient journal by giving it a visual representation through the use of an avatar. I aimed to study the effects of regulators connected with the patient journal as a source of information for the innovative project.

We live in an exciting society, characterized by continuous changes and challenges. The effects of the globalization are widespread. The continuous flow of people, capital and goods follows in the wake of advances in communications, transport and information technology, resulting in a changed situation for different stakeholders in the society. This situation leads to increased cooperation and exchange, but also increased competition. The primary means of collecting empirical data for this study was interviews and a document study.

Active sensors are used a lot in the society and industry, for example to gain better control over processes or to get proximity sensing features in different products. Within industry there is great interest in developing safe automation products that can be controlled with high accuracy but still at a low cost.The goal of this project is to develop a prototype of a non-contact rangefinder that measures distance using infrared light. The sensor is to be used for various applications in industries with relatively high accuracy and be compact, but at a low cost. By implementing a rangefinder into a product, more accurate detections of an object?s presence can be done.In this project a new distance sensor, EPC600 from ESPROS, was used.

According to the study [1] several firefighters are killed in action each year. This happens naturally in various ways. One of the major factors is that firefighters often do not know how the environment looks like, for example that a building in an industrial area contains hazardous gas cylinders. Without a solution, fire-fighters will continue to die in duty. It is therefore important to solve this problem so that we can minimize the risks and save lives.The goal of this project was a control system for pneumatic artificial muscles.

Kandidatuppsats i företagsekonomi, Ekonomihögskolan vid Växjö universitet, ekonomistyrning, FEN 330:2, VT 2006Författare: : Jörgen Emanuelsson, Benjamin Kibebe och Lena SvenssonHandledare: Elin FunckTitel: PrestationsmätningEn studie av nyckeltal för inre effektivitet inom butikskedjan XYBakgrund: De icke-finansiella prestationsmåtten har idag kommit att öka i betydelse, detta till följd av att företaget ständigt måste öka sin effektivitet på grund av den ökade konkurrensen på marknaden. I dagsläget så har XY bra kontroll och uppföljning på sina finansiella prestationer men har en del problem när det gäller att kontrollera och följa upp sina icke-finansiella prestationer. Vid mätning av icke-finansiella prestationer så är det många aspekter man måste ta hänsyn till och i vår studie så ska vi bl. a belysa viktiga delar man måste ta hänsyn till samt komma med förslag till nyckeltal för prestationsmätning. Det här fallet handlar om hur viktigt det är att välja rätt prestationsmått och hur viktigt det är att dessa mått verkligen stödjer företagets strategi och vision.Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att beskriva hur ett företaget som är verksamt inom modebranschen går tillväga för att mäta prestationer.

This report describes the bachelor degree project called ?A case study in strategic product design in collaboration with Elfa? carried out by Mathieu Gustafsson and Pär Rickberg,students at Carl Malmsten Furniture Studies.We had the opportunity to do our degree project in collaboration with ELFA after a previous school project where we made suggestions for new products. Initially the brief was to develop new products for the company which was based on previous proposals.Reasoning led us in to design strategies and how to use such a strategy to develop newproducts for ELFA. During our first superficial analysis of ELFA and its current products, we found that we wanted to recast the framework of identity and context in which the product would be created. According to the researches made by SVID (The Swedish Industrial Design Foundation),companies that continually are working with design strategies strengthens the brand, its competitiveness and become more innovative.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka relationen mellan de två nationella miljökvalitetsmålen, Ett rikt odlingslandskap och God bebyggd miljö. Sveriges mest högproduktiva jordbruksmark finns till stor del i Skåne. Skåne har sedan 1960-talet haft en positiv befolkningstillväxt större än resten av landet. Kombinationen mellan stor andel jordbruksmark och positiv befolkningsutveckling gör Skåneregionen intressant att undersöka. Uppsatsen görs i form av en forskningsöversikt och en fallstudie av Tomelilla tätort.