{"id":27507,"date":"2025-06-09T11:32:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weland.com\/samarbetet-med-studenter-ger-nya-infallsvinklar\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T11:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:39:29","slug":"samarbetet-med-studenter-ger-nya-infallsvinklar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weland.com\/en\/samarbetet-med-studenter-ger-nya-infallsvinklar\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaboration with students provides new insights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"410\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-27499 size-large\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.weland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/aw00010204-1024x410.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.weland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/aw00010204-1024x410.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.weland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/aw00010204-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.weland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/aw00010204-150x60.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.weland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/aw00010204-768x307.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.weland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/aw00010204-1536x614.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.weland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/aw00010204-1568x627.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/www.weland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/aw00010204.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#6a6768\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">        <div class=\"container page-breadcrumb\">\n            <div class=\"row\">\n                <div class=\"col-sm-12\" style=\"padding-left: 0\">\n                    <nav aria-label=\"breadcrumb\">\n                        <ol class=\"breadcrumb\">\n                            <li class=\"breadcrumb-item\">\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weland.com\/en\/\">Start page<\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n                              \n                                                            <li class=\"breadcrumb-item CC active\" aria-current=\"page\">\n                                    Collaboration with students provides new insights                                <\/li>\n                                                    <\/ol>\n                    <\/nav>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n\n        \n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong><strong>Collaboration with students provides new insights<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 For us, it&#8217;s important to benefit from the knowledge and expertise available at colleges and universities. By collaborating with students, we get exposed to new perspectives and ideas, whilst the students get the opportunity to find out what it&#8217;s like to be in a working environment, says Albin Holm, Production Manager at Weland AB in Sm\u00e5landsstenar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He remembers his time as a student and how difficult it often was to get responses from companies that were asked about project and final degree work. <br>\u2013 Many simply didn\u2019t respond to my requests, which is why it feels so good to work at Weland, a company that believes in always responding &#8211; no matter whether that response is a yes or a no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, the company must sometimes say \u2018no\u2019. <br>\u2013 For us, it&#8217;s important to participate and support students throughout their projects, so we have to make sure that we have the appropriate resources available in-house, he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Changed product design did the job<br><\/strong>During his development engineer course, Sammi Kuqi, together with fellow students Ella Blixt, Philip Andersson, and Kristin T\u00e4ck, were tasked with carrying out a \u201cproduct renewal project\u201d. Weland was one of the companies contacted, and the group got a quick and positive response from Holm. The task set to the students was to further automate production of Weland\u2019s patented fire extinguishing grating and, if possible, also reduce materials use during fabrication. <br>\u2013 We were invited to visit the production facilities in order to get a clear picture of the fabrication process, says Kuqi and continues; <br>\u2013 This helped us a lot and allowed us to realise that some of the design ideas we had couldn&#8217;t be implemented in the actual production environment. It enabled us to understand where the limits were, which made our job both easier and more efficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jakob Josefsson, who works in the product development department at Weland, enthuses about the final result that Kuqi and his group presented. <br>\u2013 Theoretically, the changes they have made to the product design have succeeded in making production fully automated &#8211; taking it from two steps to one.&nbsp; It means that is should now be possible to do punching and bending in the same machine, something that the original product design didn&#8217;t allow. They\u2019ve also succeeded reducing material consumption to a certain extent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Collaboration a win-win situation<br><\/strong>The project ran over a period of six months &#8211; from the first meeting with Weland in Sm\u00e5landsstenar, to the final presentation at Halmstad University. Josefsson, who worked closely with the students during the project, praises their commitment: <br>\u2013 We\u2019ve really got to give the group a lot of credit. They were fully committed from the get-go, collecting all the necessary information, asking questions, and driving the project forwards in an impressive way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holm agrees, adding; <br>\u2013 Collaborations with colleges and universities allow us to develop and benefit from each other&#8217;s experience and expertise. 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