FläktGroup is one of the world’s largest supplier of products and solutions related to indoor climate control. The Jönköping location is the largest production facility for FläktGroup. Air handling equipment for commercial buildings are the company's major products, while ventilation and air treatment are its primary business. An air handling unit is used to continually exchange indoor air for outdoor air in order to accomplish the desired air exchange in a structure. The air handling unit is used to heat, chill, and filter incoming air in addition to using fans to move air into and out of the building and exchange heat between incoming and exiting air. To further increase the lifecycle of the current fan-walls. FläktGroup had a study done by a student to see if it was possible to decrease the vibrations on the fan-wall. Since a decrease in vibrations will results less stress on the bearings and increase the lifecycle. Which in turn means that the product needs to be replaced less often and have less maintenance done. The study will be following FläktGroups steps for a product development. The overall project can be divided in the following steps: 1. Project definition – 2. Concept generation – 3. First selection of candidate concepts – 4. CAD design of candidate concept(s) – 5. Prototype build –6. Verification in lab – 7. Conclusion. The study will mainly focus on step 2-7. Due to the complexity of the study, it will have a experimental approach, which means that no calculations will be done and everything will be done by experimenting and verifications through data collection software. The main focus to reduce vibration on the air handling unit was to modify and improve upon existing fan-walls, either to stiffen it or cushion it. The theory used for this was a simple vibration formula that contained the correlation of stiffness, mass, and damping. Through the process given by FläktGroup three main concepts were chosen as candidates to further test on and finally one concept was picked to pursue. A horizontal beam that reduced vibrations considerably. A concept that showed extra potential was also found, however not enough testing was done and is encouraged to be tested more upon in the future.

In a global market, the competition is strong and companies are competing against each other all the time. By obtaining competitive advantages such as flexible production, short delivery times, quality and low prices, a company can attract major customers and create major advantages compared to their competatives.   Kongsberg Automotive AB is a global company operating in the automotive industry and distributing goods to several famous brands. Due to high demands from clients, Kongsberg is working with continuous improvement which helps the company to develop and improve their effectiveness. One problem the company has had under observation for a while is their setup process. The setup process has not had a major change since 1996 when the company introduced a workstation that prepares tools for the production. The company has decided to investigate further into the setup process to see which improvements are possible to carry out the setup process. The investigation covered the setup time reduction through an analysis made by using the SMED-method in the program AviX SMED.   AviX SMED uses video-recorded material were the most representative setup was used as an object. The program offers the possibility to analyze the video-recorded material using categorizations and by splitting up the various elements of the set of workers available. SMED is an elaborate method of setup time reduction which comes from Japan in the 1950´s and follows a number of different steps that should be taken in order to get the desired results.   The investigation resulted in several suggestions for improvement where two different proposals for action was developed. The proposed actions were developed with a main focus on "with investments" and "without investment". The proposal without invesments was used as suggested actions to Kongsberg because investments were not the focus. The ”non investment”-suggestion reduced setup time on average by 29 % in four of the analysed setups. Kongsberg can continue to reduce setup time by technical efficiency but that requires more profound analysis of how complex features work and interact with each other.