Padok Brasilien

Sunday, February 27, 2011

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The idea was that everyone could write their reflecton

Visit at São Paulo University Friday 20110225

Johan Stahre Chalmers, Catarina Dudas University of Skövde, Björn Diffner Linköpings University, Karin Romvall Mälardalens University

Presentation of the areas of our interest

Visit at SKF São Paulo Friday 20110225

Padok visited SKF 25th of February. SKF has 110 sites which are distributed to 28 countries.SKF History of Brazil started in the middle of the second decade of last century, more precisely on January 27, 1915.

At that time, SKF had installed a store in Rio de Janeiro and carried imports of several types of bearings to supply the Brazilian market.

In June 1963, opened its first factory on the banks of the President Dutra Highway, and all these years many changes have occurred in the plant in Guarulhos, keeping pace with the country's development.

Today, SKF-generation plant in Brazil is installed on the Anhanguera Highway, 30 km, in Cajamar, São Paulo. Since August 2002, its sales offices are located at Rodovia Castello Branco, 30 km in the city of Barueri, São Paulo, together with Goodyear (Rubber Technical Products Division), forming the Power Transmission Alliance.

Since its inception, SKF holds a leading position for the high quality of its products, the technical assistance it has provided to its customers and the wide selection of bearings which remains available, plus a full line of related products such as seals, greases, assembly and disassembly tools, laser alignment and technical training through our technical department.

SKF in Brazil is part of the Swedish group SKF, which is a leading global bearing market, maintaining its sales through a large network of authorized distributors.

SKF vision is "to equip the world with SKF knowledge". And as a philosopy they use "everyday everybody everywhere looking for improvements." They work 350 days/year and 22hrs/day.

Thanks to SKF for their hospitality !!

Danfang Chen KTH outside SKF

Mathias Werner KTH

Kristofer Elo Linköping University

Pedro Neves KTH and our guide Ricardo Doimo Anderson at SKF

Visit at Scania Latin America Ltda. – Sao Paulo, Thursday 2011-02-24

During the whole day of 24^th Feb. 2011, we have visited the Scania production plant in Sao Paulo. Scania is producing heavy vehicles in Brazil since 1952. Today they are producing heavy trucks as well as bus chassis. Scania is also entering into the new segment of special trucks for mining. The bus body building is mostly done by Marco Polo. The Scania factory in Sao Paulo has 4954 employees. Scania has shown a turnover of 3.010 million USD in 2010 in Latin America. They currently have a market share of 28.4% of the heavy trucks market in Brazil. In Latin America, Scania have industrial manufacturing facilities in Brazil and Argentina. The commercial operations are also present in other countries like Mexico, Peru and Venuzvela. We were greeted by the vice president of production and development Stefan Palskog. After a quick presentation of Scania in Latin America we received a tour of all four different major divisions of the company, these divisions were the Chassis- , Cab- , Engine- and Transmission workshop. After a great lunch, the Swedish Production Academy was presented to Scania. Following this we received a presentation on the work on modularizing the different trucks manufactured by Scania. All of the trucks produced by Scania are based upon a series of different modules which could be combined in one of many different manners in order to fit the costumer’s demands. After this followed a presentation on the IT-systems used by Scania globally. Between 4-5 PM, some of the group members of PADOK enjoyed test drives of new trucks. The production systems and machining groups had the opportunity to present their research work to Scania. Scania had asked for separate workshops with each of these two groups in order to further exchange knowledge. During these two parallel workshops the involved PhD-students were able to present their research for the personnel working in similar areas at Scania. The event was ended with a presentation by Prof. Kinnander on differences between productivity of sub-suppliers in Sweden as well as several different regions of the world. The possibilities for further improvements of the Scania production were then discussed ending a long but very giving day.

Thank you Scania, Stefan and his fantastic staff for a great day!!