Master Thesis Projects - Landskrona, Spring 2027
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ASSA ABLOY is offering Master Thesis projects at their Landskrona site for Spring 2027. Students will work on real-world challenges in areas like product development, automation, and AI. This is a great opportunity to gain practical experience with a global leader in access solutions and potentially kickstart a career.
Ansvarsområden
- Deep dive into new Machinery regulation to understand requirements.
- Investigate the market for cost-efficient technical solutions.
- Calculate required data storage.
- Create a working prototype and validate the proposed technical solution.
- Collect needs and requirements for technical solutions.
- Ideate to find technical solutions and validate the most promising ones.
- Investigate current retail market needs and ASSA ABLOY's potential solutions.
- Set up a suggested business proposal based on a clear business case.
- Analyze existing panel designs and production methods.
- Identify strengths and weaknesses of different concepts.
- Develop a unified panel platform suitable for multiple factories.
- Evaluate manufacturing, performance, and cost implications.
- Investigate interchangeable embossing designs for local branding.
- Define recommendations for long-term product ownership and development.
- Develop concepts for separate panel joint systems.
- Investigate manufacturing and assembly implications.
- Evaluate cost, material usage, and production complexity.
- Assess effects on thermal insulation and energy efficiency.
- Analyze structural performance and load transfer.
- Explore reinforced joint designs using trusses or other strengthening features.
- Analyze sales data and door size distributions.
- Develop and evaluate optimal panel height concepts.
- Assess impact on production and inventory complexity.
- Investigate installation and handling considerations.
- Evaluate effects on strength, insulation, and overall door performance.
- Recommend the best solution based on technical and business value.
- Analyze current roller and bracket designs and their usage.
- Investigate load limits and key performance constraints.
- Evaluate whether multiple roller sizes would be beneficial.
- Identify opportunities for cost and material reduction.
- Develop concepts for more compact brackets with maintained adjustability.
- Assess effects on durability, installation, and overall door performance.
- Investigate how current panels resist crowbar attacks.
- Identify alternative materials and reinforcement concepts.
- Explore solutions integrated into the panel, insulation, or joint design.
- Evaluate effects on weight, cost, manufacturability, and performance.
- Assess burglary resistance through analysis and testing.
- Compare concepts and recommend the most promising design.
- Analyze the limitations of current glass solutions.
- Investigate ultra-thin and high-strength glass technologies.
- Evaluate structural performance and impact resistance.
- Assess weight reduction and thermal performance benefits.
- Study manufacturing, handling, and cost implications.
- Develop and compare concepts for future door designs.
- Evaluate wireless alternatives to CAN communication.
- Define requirements for latency, reliability, and safety.
- Investigate cybersecurity and communication robustness.
- Design and test a wireless communication architecture.
- Assess performance under industrial operating conditions.
- Compare installation, service, and cost implications.
- Compare BLDC and AC motor performance in spring-balanced doors.
- Determine practical limits regarding door size and weight.
- Evaluate safety functions based on force detection and motor current monitoring.
- Develop concepts for highly integrated motor and gearbox solutions.
- Explore innovative designs such as motors integrated into cable drums.
- Assess cost, efficiency, installation, and maintenance implications.
- Create proof-of-concept designs and recommendations for future platforms.
- Analyze motor, gearbox, and brake performance variations.
- Investigate the impact of manufacturing tolerances.
- Evaluate the effects of temperature and operating conditions.
- Measure friction and efficiency losses in complete door systems.
- Develop methods for screening motor systems before delivery.
- Identify root causes and propose design improvements or proof-of-concept solutions.
- Identify and evaluate available open-source CAN stacks.
- Assess compliance with safety requirements and machinery regulations.
- Benchmark performance, reliability, and maintenance implications.
- Investigate CAN solutions already used within the company.
- Develop a migration strategy from the current licensed solution.
- Create a proof-of-concept or prototype implementation.
- Recommend the most suitable solution for future products.
- Compare historical and current spring designs and calculations.
- Investigate spring wire materials and supplier differences.
- Analyze the factors limiting spring performance today.
- Evaluate opportunities to reduce spring count and material usage.
- Develop improved spring calculation methods and specifications.
- Recommend an optimized strategy for future spring design and sourcing.
- Analyze cases where standard drum solutions are insufficient.
- Develop concepts for locally manufactured and 3D-printed drums.
- Evaluate material options and manufacturing methods.
- Assess strength, durability, and safety requirements.
- Compare production cost and lead time against traditional solutions.
- Define the practical limits regarding door size and weight.
- Analyze sales data to identify the most valuable built-in features.
- Gather requirements from stakeholders across the business.
- Challenge existing architecture and identify unnecessary complexity.
- Develop concepts for door and loading bay controller platforms.
- Evaluate module strategies that minimize base-unit cost.
- Investigate compatibility with current and future motor technologies.
- Ensure compliance with upcoming machinery regulations and connected-product requirements.
- Analyze the current software testing process and its limitations.
- Investigate how AI can generate, execute, and evaluate test cases.
- Develop concepts for autonomous overnight system testing.
- Identify software and architecture changes needed to support automation.
- Evaluate risks, limitations, and maintenance requirements.
- Create recommendations for a scalable AI-driven testing framework.
- Find suitable manufacturing methods for the expected volume.
- Adapt the “rack” design for the manufacturing methods.
- Visiting our production in Lidköping.
- Use FEM analysis and other simulations for quick testing.
- Test using real prototypes to verify functionality.
- Evaluating solution concepts.
- Making sure the machine works, which requires mechanical and electrical solutions.
- Building the machine, which functions as its own prototype.
- Programming the machine.
- Ergonomic and usability analysis and testing.
- Visiting our production in Lidköping.
- Use and evaluate relevant AI components.
- Define evaluation criteria, such as answer quality, cost, and latency.
- Investigate and compare evaluation methods.
- Build representative evaluation datasets.
- Work in a cloud environment and develop an understanding of its services and capabilities.
- Analyse and communicate the results.
- Understand the cloud environment and its services.
- Evaluate the current document-understanding solution.
- Analyse accuracy, cost, and information gaps.
- Compare alternative document-understanding approaches.
- Explore improvements through tuning and training.
- Recommend the most practical and cost-effective approach.
- Design, build and validate a mechatronic system by combining mechanical design, control systems, sensors, software and automation.
- Push or pull a door to initiate opening or closing.
- Move the door to an exact predefined position before a test starts.
- Stop the door at any point during movement.
- Accurately measure and verify the door position.
- Hold the door in position and resist movement when required.
- Interface with existing HIL hardware using analog and digital I/O.
- Investigate how AI agents can leverage standardized tool interfaces to access requirements, source code and existing test assets.
- Generate regression test specifications and test code from requirements and code.
- Evaluate and compare the quality, coverage and maintainability of regression tests generated by different AI workflows.
- Deliver a complete workflow from Jira requirement to generated regression test running on real embedded hardware.
Krav
- Master’s student in engineering.
- Ability to work physically at the Landskrona site.
- Indicate project number(s) of interest.
- Share initial thoughts on how to approach the project.
- Indicate if planning to write thesis with a classmate.
- Both applicants should submit individual applications and mention each other as thesis partner if applying as a team.
- Ability to work independently or with a classmate.
Önskade kvalifikationer
- Interest in collaboration with a global innovation leader.
- Understanding of current retail market.
- Knowledge of existing panel designs and production methods.
- Familiarity with manufacturing processes and cost implications.
- Understanding of thermal insulation and energy efficiency.
- Knowledge of structural performance and load transfer.
- Experience with joint designs and reinforcement features.
- Familiarity with door height distributions and optimization.
- Knowledge of production and inventory complexity.
- Understanding of installation and handling considerations.
- Familiarity with strength, insulation, and door performance.
- Understanding of roller and bracket designs and their usage.
- Knowledge of load limits and performance constraints.
- Experience with cost and material reduction.
- Understanding of compact bracket designs and adjustability.
- Familiarity with durability, installation, and door performance.
- Knowledge of how panels resist crowbar attacks.
- Familiarity with alternative materials and reinforcement concepts.
- Understanding of solutions integrated into panel, insulation, or joint design.
- Knowledge of weight, cost, manufacturability, and performance implications.
- Ability to assess burglary resistance through analysis and testing.
- Understanding of current glass solutions and their limitations.
- Knowledge of ultra-thin and high-strength glass technologies.
- Familiarity with structural performance and impact resistance.
- Understanding of weight reduction and thermal performance benefits.
- Knowledge of manufacturing, handling, and cost implications.
- Understanding of wireless communication alternatives to CAN.
- Ability to define requirements for latency, reliability, and safety.
- Knowledge of cybersecurity and communication robustness.
- Experience designing and testing communication architectures.
- Understanding of performance under industrial operating conditions.
- Familiarity with installation, service, and cost implications.
- Knowledge of BLDC and AC motor performance in spring-balanced doors.
- Understanding of practical limits regarding door size and weight.
- Familiarity with safety functions based on force detection and motor current monitoring.
- Experience developing concepts for integrated motor and gearbox solutions.
- Knowledge of innovative designs like motors integrated into cable drums.
- Understanding of cost, efficiency, installation, and maintenance implications.
- Experience creating proof-of-concept designs.
- Familiarity with motor, gearbox, and brake performance variations.
- Understanding of the impact of manufacturing tolerances.
- Knowledge of the effects of temperature and operating conditions.
- Ability to measure friction and efficiency losses in complete door systems.
- Experience developing methods for screening motor systems.
- Ability to identify root causes and propose design improvements.
- Knowledge of available open-source CAN stacks.
- Familiarity with compliance with safety requirements and machinery regulations.
- Understanding of performance, reliability, and maintenance implications.
- Knowledge of CAN solutions used within the company.
- Experience developing migration strategies.
- Ability to create proof-of-concept or prototype implementations.
- Familiarity with historical and current spring designs and calculations.
- Knowledge of spring wire materials and supplier differences.
- Understanding of factors limiting spring performance.
- Experience evaluating opportunities to reduce spring count and material usage.
- Ability to develop improved spring calculation methods and specifications.
- Familiarity with cases where standard drum solutions are insufficient.
- Experience developing concepts for locally manufactured and 3D-printed drums.
- Understanding of material options and manufacturing methods.
- Knowledge of strength, durability, and safety requirements.
- Ability to compare production cost and lead time.
- Familiarity with door and loading bay controller platforms.
- Understanding of module strategies that minimize base-unit cost.
- Knowledge of compatibility with current and future motor technologies.
- Familiarity with upcoming machinery regulations and connected-product requirements.
- Understanding of the current software testing process and its limitations.
- Familiarity with how AI can generate, execute, and evaluate test cases.
- Experience developing concepts for autonomous overnight system testing.
- Knowledge of software and architecture changes needed for automation.
- Understanding of risks, limitations, and maintenance requirements.
- Familiarity with manufacturing methods for expected volume.
- Experience adapting designs for manufacturing methods.
- Ability to use FEM analysis and simulations.
- Experience building and testing prototypes.
- Familiarity with evaluating solution concepts.
- Ability to ensure machine functionality with mechanical and electrical solutions.
- Experience building machines and programming them.
- Familiarity with ergonomic and usability analysis and testing.
- Ability to use and evaluate relevant AI components.
- Experience defining evaluation criteria.
- Familiarity with investigating and comparing evaluation methods.
- Ability to build representative evaluation datasets.
- Familiarity with cloud environments and services.
- Experience analyzing and communicating results.
- Understanding of the cloud environment and its services.
- Familiarity with evaluating document-understanding solutions.
- Ability to analyze accuracy, cost, and information gaps.
- Experience comparing alternative document-understanding approaches.
- Familiarity with improving solutions through tuning and training.
- Ability to design, build, and validate mechatronic systems.
- Familiarity with mechanical design, control systems, sensors, software, and automation.
- Ability to push or pull a door to initiate opening or closing.
- Ability to move the door to a predefined position.
- Ability to stop the door during movement.
- Ability to measure and verify door position.
- Ability to hold the door in position and resist movement.
- Familiarity with interfacing with existing HIL hardware.
- Ability to investigate how AI agents leverage standardized tool interfaces.
- Experience generating regression test specifications and test code.
- Ability to evaluate and compare the quality, coverage, and maintainability of regression tests.
Förmåner
- Opportunity to work on projects that matter and contribute to real solutions.
- Shape the future of access.
- Be part of a large international group.
- Build a career to be proud of.
- Supportive student community, buddy system, and regular social activities.
- Many students go on to join ASSA ABLOY full-time.
- Your thesis could be the first step in a long and exciting journey.
- Hands-on learning and richer understanding of technologies and culture.
Färdigheter
RFIDNFCCAN communicationAIFEM analysisMechatronicsControl systemsSensorsSoftwareAutomationJiraEmbedded software developmentCloud environmentDocument Intelligence
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