Industry

research, technology and innovation

SINTEF contributes towards innovation, wealth creation and competitiveness in cooperation with our customers in the industrial sector. We have expert research groups working in fields such as minerals and raw materials processing, materials and metallurgical production, and recycling. We work with advanced fabrication methods, automation, systems and logistics, to develop sustainable manufacturing prosesses.

Jack Arild Ødegård

Vice President, Research

930 59 461

Jack.Odegard@sintef.no

Projects

MainMan

08 March 2016

Currently, maintenance planning in the railroad domain is predominantly performed manually and involves: Crew scheduling (assigning maintenance tasks to crews dependent on skill set) and job shop scheduling (assign time slots for vehicles to depot workstations). These activities should be synchronised and coordinated with vehicles revenue generating activity (where the vehicles are scheduled to transporting goods or passengers). Due to the substantial fixed costs involved, improved planning is expected to generate significant cost savings.

VALUMICS - Understanding food value chain and network dynamics

04 April 2017

The overall objective of the VALUMICS project is to provide decision makers throughout food value chains with a comprehensive suite of approaches and tools that will enable them to evaluate the impact of strategic and operational policies to enhance the resilience, integrity and sustainability of food value chains for European countries.

SmartChain – Automation and Digitalization for Efficient Supply Chains

22 May 2017

Norwegian suppliers have had a significant competitiveness and growth potential related to knowledge-based production of highly advanced and innovative products with a high degree of customization. Over the years, we have positioned ourselves in the top of many premium market segments. However, when competition from low-cost competitors intensifies, can we also assert ourselves in the volume segments?

News

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Ultrafine industrial dust to be studied

18 January 2016

A Norwegian interdisciplinary project is aiming to ensure that workplace exposure to microscopic dust particles is kept to a minimum for smelter personnel.

Even greener solar power on the way

13 January 2016

Europe wants to reduce its needs for raw materials and raise the level of recycling of resources in the solar power industry. If this project is successful, greenhouse gas emissions from solar panel manufacture will fall by 25 to 30 per cent.

UOP and SINTEF cooperate on synchrotron catalyst studies

09 December 2014

Recently SINTEF and UOP, a leading international supplier of catalysts, installed a test system for controlling the gas and liquid feed for in situ catalyst studies using high-energy synchrotron X-rays at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL).

Laboratories

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Process Metallurgical Laboratories

Modern production of high quality metallic materials requires advanced knowledge of pyro-metallurgical processes. SINTEF optimises metallurgical processes and raw materials, using a combination of laboratory scale and pilot scale experimental techniques, combined with thermochemical modelling.

Mass spectrometry - Advanced research-based analyses

We perform research-based mass spectrometric (MS) and high-throughput (HTS) analyses for SINTEF, academia and industry.