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It was a great day when the Otto Mønsted Foundation honoured this year’s MADE award winners for the fourth time.
The Otto Mønsted Foundation MADE Award is open to researchers who contribute to solutions that demonstrate or have the potential to solve industrial challenges within the framework of Denmark’s manufacturing cluster – MADE.
This year’s award winners more than lived up to that when the winners were announced on stage at the annual MADE event held at Grundfos in Bjerringbro on 1 November.
The first prize and DKK 100,000 went to Ioan-Matei Sarivan, MADE PhD at Aalborg University. He won the prize for his work on optimising value chain execution at Sjørring Maskinfabrik in collaboration with PDM Technology and FORCE Technology.
“It’s great to see how the project can help small and medium-sized companies like this to gain a competitive advantage through digitalisation. The project has involved all partners in the value chain; suppliers, customers and knowledge institutions to solve a difficult challenge and ensure sustainable long-term ownership of the solution and its future development,” the jury said.
The second prize went to David Sarancic, MADE PhD at DTU. In collaboration with Aasted and FORCE Technology, he has demonstrated the complexity of delivering sustainable manufacturing solutions and has developed tools and dashboards that can benefit the wider industry. The 2nd prize comes with DKK 50,000.
About the award
The Otto Mønsted Foundation MADE Prize aims to motivate a PhD student or postdoc from one of the five universities affiliated with MADE who documents useful results with real potential and which solve specific challenges in the Danish manufacturing industry. The main purpose of the Otto Mønsted Foundation is to contribute to the development of Denmark’s business community and therefore particularly supports research and educational activities within the technical-scientific and vocational fields of study.
MADE (Manufacturing Academy of Denmark) works to strengthen and unify manufacturing in Denmark through research, innovation and education.