All products will eventually end up as waste, which in a sustainable society has to be handled in an efficient and environment friendly way. This report focuses on waste fractions meant for combustion, often difficult to characterize. However, more homogeneous fractions that are treated biologically are also discussed.The study concerns the region of Borås, Sweden, where the waste plant Sobacken has provided a good starting point. On this site, fuel to the Energy-from-Waste plant of Borås Energi is prepared and the biological waste is treated through anaerobic digestion.One important part of the study has been to collect experience-based knowledge from the technical staff at Sobacken and Borås Energi. This information was compiled into an overview of wanted and unwanted fractions to the preparation plant and the boilers respectively.

Detta examensarbete har utförts i samarbete med Löfqvist Engineering i Örebro. Uppgiften har varit att utföra en simulering av en stor automatiserad produktionslina som ska användas vid tillverkning av avgassystem till lastbilar. Utifrån denna simulering skall exakta cykeltider för produktionen bestämmas. Dessa tider kan sedan användas av Löfqvist Engineering för att verifiera tidigare uppskattade tider.Arbetet inkluderar en litteraturstudie om Lean Production och hur det fungerar ihop med automation. Det finns även med lite bakgrundsinformation om Just In Time, olika filformat och robotsimulering i allmänhet för att ge en bättre överblick av ämnet.Programmet som har valts för att utföra simuleringen är Tecnomatix Process Simulate och den inbyggda Line Simulation modulen.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att pröva självständigheten och originaliteten i John Wardensteorier om ?The Enemy as a System? gentemot ?Industrial Web Theory? som utveckladesoch presenterades vid Air Corps Tactical School, ACTS, i USA under 1930-talet.Uppsatsen konkretiserar de valda teoribildningarna, jämför dess olika innebörder och därefterbelyser eventuella skillnader respektive likheter, i syfte att belägga eller motsägaWardens originalitet..

Denna rapport syftar till att undersöka hur Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery AB i Finspång har valt att arbeta med processförbättringsmetoden Six Sigma, som är en mycket populär metod för att genomföra processförbättringsprojekt och mycket attraktiv för företag som ska arbeta med sådana. Metoden bygger på statistik och att fatta välinformerade beslut. Detta görs genom att samla team-medlemmar från den process som ska förbättras och genom att göra mätningar inom sagda process.  Man börjar ett projekt genom att definiera problemet, går vidare med att mäta den aktuella processen, analyserar sedan de data man fått in, försöker komma på lösningar och slutligen implementerar man den lösning man bedömt som bäst. Vi gjorde en kvalitativ fallstudie på företaget och intervjuade över ett dussin personer som hade olika grader av bekanthet med Six Sigma, för att få utsagor från personer med olika perspektiv på metoden.  Av detta fick vi veta att de som har varit med i ett förbättringsprojekt eller har utbildat sig inom Six Sigma var begränsade till en knapp tiondel av de anställda på företaget, men att de som var insatta i metoden var ganska väl insatta. Vi går igenom ett antal faktorer inom Six Sigma och projekt baserade på metoden och ställer dessa mot relaterade teorier så att vi kan dra slutsatser. Slutligen tar vi upp våra slutsatser och avslutande reflektioner där vi kommer fram till att mycket av problemen med metoden ligger i om man inte använder den fullt ut utan försöker klara sig utan att ge de resurser som krävs men att metoden annars ger ett stabilt ramverk för processutveckling..

A study was carried in conjunction with the Orthodontic department at Halmstad General Hospital in Sweden to investigate the possibility of reducing cost and manufacture time of dental implant drill guides. The current system involves sending a digital image in STL format to the Materialise factory in Belgium where information of the position of dental implants is translated onto a moulded mouthpiece. Drill guides are placed in the mouth piece which is then returned to the surgeon. The mouthpiece complete with drill guides is then placed in the patients mouth and used as a guide for the implant drill holes. The cost of 10000 sek and a turnaround time of 2 weeks gave rise to the need for a faster and cheaper solution.

This final project discusses renewal and upgrading of the area of Prim. It is discussed how this industrial area can be an attractive neighborhood with a varied range of services and commercial trade. Prim is located 2km north-east of the center of Barcelona. The area boarders to a deep railway valley that historically has separated Prim from its neighboring districts. At present there is almost no housing, services or commercial trade within the area and the industry is discontinued or the existing industrial buildings are derelict. There is also a lack of green recreational areas.

In the forest sector, non-industrial private forest (NIPF) owners commonly interact with numerous stakeholders (e.g. forest managers, timber buyers, harvesting contractors and advisors) for counseling, planning, selling and hiring. Forest management is therefore built and influenced by the relationships between NIPF owners and other stakeholders. In the local context of a Southern Sweden, the Swedish Forest Agency (SFA) and the Southern Forest Owners Association (SÖDRA) are very influential stakeholders in small-scale forest management. Based on qualitative interviews and by means of grounded theory, an analysis of the relationships between NIPF owners and the mentioned organizations was carried out in order to understand the social context at the genesis of forest management decisions.

The Falun area has been undergoing mining activity for a very long time and miningslag piled up and was used as foundations for building houses and roads, Ingarvetstarted expanding in the 1970s to an industrial area. The main goal for this report is toreconstruct a soil map of how the landscape was before anthropogenic effects. With thehelp of ArcGIS and geotechnical reports a soil map for parts of Ingarvet, Falun werecreated..

The bulk of the research within the field of media and communication is concentrated at theforefront of development, studies focus on modern companies and modern communication.However, many people work in the industry, where the conditions for communication are partly different. The aim of this study is to explore the possibilities for internal communication that the employees have at the base industrial company of Billerud Gruvön, Sweden. How important do they feel that communication is? Can the internal communication within Gruvön be described as modern, where dialogue between the staff is possible, or as orders from the top down to the bottom of the hierarchal structure?These are our research questions:Which channels are used for communication within Gruvön, and how are they used?How important do the employees deem the internal communication to be?Can the communication within a hierarchal industrial company such as Gruvön be described as modern, where dialogue is at the center, or does the communication consist basically on orders from the top down to the bottom of the chain?Our research is based on the following theories: Communication, Organizational communication, Internal communication and Organizational culture. We have looked to earlier research such as the doctorates of Simonsson (2002) and Johansson (2003) to further our understanding.The methods used are interviews with operators, middle management and the informationofficer at Gruvön.

Lagen om skydd mot olyckor ställer krav på att företag med hög riskbild gällande brand skall genomföra riskanalyser för sin verksamhet. Med detta som grund har i detta arbete genomförts en riskanalys med åtgärdsförslag i syfte att bidra med underlag för att förbättra brandskyddet i Norrmalmsverkstaden i Finspång. Norrmalmsverkstaden ägs och nyttjas av Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery AB [SIT AB] som tillverkar gas- och ångturbiner. Turbiner till ett försäljningsvärde av flera hundra miljoner kronor monteras och finns uppställda i Norrmalmsverkstaden. En brand där turbiner och övrigt material i lokalen påverkas skulle få stora ekonomiska konsekvenser för SIT AB.

The aim of this Masters thesis is to explore the image of the librarian from three groups: librarians, researchers and directors of staff from industrial companies. The purpose was also to study the image of the future librarian as the Swedish School of Library and Information Science at the University College of Borås introduces it. As my theoretical framework I used communication theories and marketing theories. I searched answers to the following questions: - Is there any resemblance at all between the common stereotypes of the librarian and the images given by the participants of the survey? - How do the librarians view themselves? - What is the image of the librarian among the researchers who use the services of the library? - What is the image of the librarian among the directors of staff from the industrial companies? - What is the image of the librarian given by an educational institution during the basic education? I contacted the participants and asked them to draw a picture of a librarian and write a short text about the picture.

Detta examensarbete inom lean produktion anpassar, tillämpar och utvecklar metoden för värdeflödeskartläggning på Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery AB:s tillverkning av mellanväggar. Företaget ser en ökad efterfrågan på ångturbiner, där mellanväggar är ingående komponenter. Produktionen av mellanväggar sker idag i funktionell verkstad där mellanväggen genomgår drygt 20 operationer. Värdeflödeskartläggningen ska presentera ett förbättrat produktionssystem för mellanväggar som kan möta den prognostiseradeefterfrågan.Metoden för värdeflödeskartläggning har sitt ursprung hos Toyota och bilindustrin. Examensarbetet utvecklar metoden för kundorderstyrd lågvolymproduktion och presenterar en metodhandbok för leanimplementatörer.

A Swedish company, company F, will establish a new factory in China. Company F is adivision within Company F. The factory in China will manufacture wire products. Thepurpose of this final thesis is to analyse which legal and practical measures the company hasto undertake during the process of localization to get approval from the Chineseenvironmental legislation.An analysis of the influencing factors on the environment from the production in theconstruction in Sweden was carried through. A material-balance was analysed according tothe flowchart of the production.

This report presents suggestions and recommendations on how to convert an old industrial building, built in 1958, to an office hotel. One of the main criteria was that the floor plan should be flexible. The building is situated at Jonsereds Fabriker and the study was conducted for Hantverkslokaler i Göteborg AB, the estate owner.The survey is initiated with study visits at various office hotels, together with studies of literature regarding office planning. One conclusion from the study visits is that meeting-places, where the different companies can meet and exchange ideas and services, are important. Another one, and probably the most important parameter when planning offices is that they should have windows.

The aim of this masters thesis is to examine what political, social and ideological reasons that were the base for the establishment of the Swedish temperance movement. Which judgements within this movement that resulted in the decision to establish publishing firms, how these publishing businesses were organised and what function they had in the literary circuit. The questions are: What principal political, social, economical and ideological reasons were the bases for the establishment of the Swedish temperance movement? How has their need for publishing firms arisen? Which were the publishing firms and who were the publishers? What ideas, purposes, experiences, values and judgements led to the establishment of publishing firms? In the first part of the theory I have used the historical materialism of Karl Marx; in the second part the theory of middle class publicity by Jürgen Habermas; and in the third part I have made a presentation of the literary circuit and how it works according to Marx and Habermas. The method used is an analysis of ideas and ideologies in literature and documents.