About Wingquist Laboratory

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Rikard Söderberg speaking at Wingquist seminar

Wingquist Laboratory envisions a fully digital product realization process, where complex, mechanical, assembled products and their production systems are developed and verified together, without need for physical prototypes or testing.

The ability to develop and verify new products and production systems with digital models, to reduce time and cost and increase quality, and thereby increase the competitiveness of Swedish manufacturing industry, has been the vision of Wingquist Laboratory since the start.

Wingquist Laboratory was founded in 2000. The main motivation was to stimulate research excellence in industrially important areas. Between 2007–2017, Wingquist Laboratory was a Vinnova VINN Excellence Centre. Now the research centre is well established in both the research and industrial community. Since the start, Wingquist Laboratory has generated a large number of scientific publications, examinations and demonstrators that have resulted in broad implementation and use in industry.

Since the start in 2000, Wingquist Laboratory has attracted approximately 600 MSEK in public funding and over the double in industrial in-kind contribution.

Sven Wingquist – a global entrepreneur and social trendsetter

Sven Gustaf Wingqvist (1876-1953) was a Swedish engineer, inventor and industrialist, and one of the founders of Svenska Kullagerfabriken (SKF) from which Volvo later was founded. He was one of the world’s leading ball and roller bearing makers. He invented the multi-row, self-aligning radial ball bearing in 1907. It is in his honour the competence centre started.

Board members

Bo Anulf

 

Chairman of the board

Rikard Söderberg

Chalmers

Director

  

Kristina Wärmefjord

Chalmers

Vice Director

 

Christina Haglund

Chalmers

Financial officer

 

Erik Tyldhed

AB Sandvik Coromant

   

Johan Carlsson

Fraunhofer Chalmers Centrum FCC

   

Henrik Runnemalm

GKN Aerospace Engine Systems AB

   

Ulf Högman

GKN Aerospace Engine Systems AB

Suppleant

 

Johan Rice Svensson

IKEA of Sweden AB

   

Anton Berce

Industrial Path Solution (IPS)

   

Richard Lindqvist

SAAB AB

   

Patrik Nordholm

SAAB AB

Suppleant

 

Fredrik Ore

Scania CV AB

   

David Svensson

Scania CV AB

Suppleant

 

Emma Boman

Volvo Car Group AB

   

Almir Smajic

Volvo Car Group AB

Suppleant

 

Thomas Lezama

Volvo Technology AB