Month: April 2016

Offshore Conference: NORCOWE Meets SFI, May 10-11

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Sign up for the conference at: https://eras.uia.no/reg.php?id=1626 (SFI Offshore Mechatronics only, NORCOWE has a separate registration site).

Place: Campus Grimstad
Dates: May 10-11, 2016

Day 1 until 13:20 is open for everyone. The rest of the conference is for partners in SFI Offshore Mechatronics only.

Day 1:
09:15 – 10:00 Registration in the reception area, Campus Grimstad. Poster session + guided tour of the Motion-Lab
10:00 – 12:00 Plenary Session.
10:00 – 10:50 NORCOWE by Centre Director Kristin Guldbrandsen Frøysa. Presentation of Hywind Scotland Pilot Park) by Anne Fausa, Statoil.
10:50 – 11:00 Overview SFI Offshore Mechatronics, Geir Hovland
11:00 – 11:20 Jan Martin Grindheim, Macgregor: Transfer of competence from oil and gas sector to offshore wind.
11:20 – 11:40 Åsmund Hjulstad – Automated Drilling Control at Statoil.
11:40 – 12:00 Nina Kyllingstad, Agderforskning: results from network analysis of NODE companies and subsea companies in Rogaland.
12:00 – 13:00 Common Lunch
13:00 – 16:00 Parallel sessions (NORCOWE and SFI Offshore Mechatronics).
13:00 – 13:20 Prof. Ian Jennions, Selected results from the IVHM Centre, Cranfield University. See http://tinyurl.com/jjqp97k
13:20 – 14:30 WP2 Motion Compensation (Torstein Myhre, Geir Ole Tysse, Sondre Sanden Tørdal)
14:30 – 15:00 Break
15:00 – 16:00 WP2 Continued and WP4 Modelling and simulation (Olav Egeland, Houxiang Zhang)
16:15 – 17:00 Demo in the Motion-Lab + Poster session
17:00 – 18:30 Conference Dinner on Campus
19:00 Bus transport and guided visit to the Maritime Museum

Day 2:
08:30 – 12:00 Parallel sessions (NORCOWE and SFI Offshore Mechatronics).
08:30 – 10:00 WP1: Drives (Morten Kjeld Ebbesen, Torben Ole Andersen) and WP3: Robotics and Autonomy (Geir Hovland, Jan-Einar Gravdal, Houxiang Zhang)
10:00 – 10:30 Prof. Rolf Johansson, Lund University: Industrial Robots, Skills and Work-Space Sensing.
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:00 WP5: Monitoring Techniques (Thomas Meyer, Rune Schlanbusch, Einar Oland, Felix Strassburger/Achim Feldermann)
12:00 – 13:00 Common Lunch
13:00 – 15:00 Parallel sessions (NORCOWE and SFI Offshore Mechatronics).
13:00 – 13:30 WP7: Technology Vision (Anne Grete Ellingsen)
13:30 – 14:00 WP6: Data Analytics, IT Integration and Big Data (Baltasar Beferull Lozano)
14:15 – 15:00 WP1-WP6 Reference Group Meetings. C4 041, 043 and 095.
15:15 – 16:00 Demo in the Motion-Lab + Poster session
16:15 Common bus transport from Campus Grimstad to Kristiansand Kjevik Airport (KRS)

A special Offshore Technology edition of the journal MIC will be produced in connection with this conference. See the Call For Papers.

We recommend staying at Scandic Grimstad, reservation code: BUNI090516

WP7 Technology Vision Workshop, June 21

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The program (PDF) is available here: https://sfi.mechatronics.no/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/WP7-Workshop-Agenda-June-2016.pdf.

The registration link is here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mechatronic-forsight-technology-drives-the-future-tickets-24987210419

Location: UiA, Campus Grimstad
Program:
08:00 – 10:00 SESSION 1 FOR SFI MEMBERS, WP7
08:00 – 08:15 Anne Grete Ellingsen, CEO GCE NODE. OPENING REMARKS
08:15 – 09:30 Øystein T. Berg, Partner, InFuture FINDINGS FROM SFI STRATEGIC STUDY
10:00 – 15:00 OPEN SESSION
10:00 – 10:30 Audun Finnestad, Director PwC MEGA TRENDS AND RADICAL OPPORTUNITIES
10:30 – 11:15 Bjørn Rudshaug, Strategic Project Manager Automatic Drilling Control, Statoil. THE OPPORTUNITIES OF BIG DATA TRANSFORMATION
11:15 – 12:00 Hege Kverneland, Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, NOV. IMPACT OF ACCELERATED DIGIZATIONS
12:00 13:00 LUNCH
13:00 – 14:00 Øyvind Boye, CEO NYMO. Kim A. Jørgensen, Analyst Lundin. Tor Arne Hauge, CEO OTECHOS. SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATION IN THE NEW ECOSYSTEM
14:00 – 14:15 Arnt Aske, Industry Consultant, GCE NODE WHEN THE NATURE OF INNOVATION IS CHANGING. HOW TO INNOVATE FASTER AND AT SCALE
14:15 – 14:30 Øyvind Mydland, CEO StepChange. TRENDS IN THE OIL & GAS INDUSTRY THAT CANNOT BE AVOIDED
14:30 – 15:00 Marit Dolmen & Arnt Aske OPEN DISCUSSION
15:30 – 16:30 SESSION 2 FOR SFI MEMBERS, WP7. DISCUSSIONS WP7 FINDINGS. Øystein T. Berg, Partner, InFuture
VISIT THE LAB Geir Hovland, Centre Director, SFI Offshore
16:30 – 20:00 DRILLING RIG VISIT AND SOCIAL GATHERING & BBQ

WP5 Reference Group Meeting, May 9

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Tentative agenda:
11:45-12:30: registration and lunch at MacGregor, Andøya, Kristiansand
12:30 – 12:40: Welcome and administrative status update: recruitment status on the fiber rope PhD, presentation of a new activity and PhD student: 5.5, Predicting the fatigue damage evolution in components and welded joints
12:40 – 13:10: Monitoring big bearings, an overview of the technologies and techniques (PhD candidate: Martin Hemmer, 20min .ppt, 10 min questions)
13:10 – 13:40: Rolling contact fatigue in large turret roller bearings, the Dang Van Criterion (PhD candidate: Zbigniew Jakub Mikulski, 20min .ppt, 10 min questions)
13:40-13:55: Coffee break & informal discussions
13:55- 14:25: Winch lifetime prediction, an update on the activities since the last reference group (PhD candidate: Achim Feldermann, 20min .ppt, 10 min questions)
14:25-14:50: Fiber and steel ropes – progress on the research front, progress on the test rig design, plans of activity in 2016 (Dr. Rune Schlanbusch and Dr. Espen Oland, 20 min .ppt, 5 min questions)
14:50-15:00: Coffee break & informal discussions
15:00-15:30: Big bearing, further data and analytics (Dr. Eric Bechhoefer, 20 min .ppt, 5 min questions)
15:30- 15:40: SFIWP5 Booklet presentation
15:40-15:50: AOB & wrap up

47 Applicants for WP3.5 (UiA)

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The publicly announced PhD position WP3.5 Formal Verification of Hybrid Systems has received 47 applicants. The selection committee has started it’s work and the goal is to start up the work with the selected candidate in Q3-2016.