About Wingquist Laboratory

The ability to develop and verify new products and production systems with digital models, to reduce time and cost and increase quality, and thereby increase the competitiveness of Swedish manufacturing industry, has been the vision of Wingquist Laboratory since the start.

Wingquist Laboratory was founded in 2000. The main motivation was to stimulate research excellence in industrially important areas. Between 2007–2017, Wingquist Laboratory was a Vinnova VINN Excellence Centre. Now the research centre is well established in both the research and industrial community. Since the start, Wingquist Laboratory has generated a large number of scientific publications, examinations and demonstrators that have resulted in broad implementation and use in industry.

Since the start in 2000, Wingquist Laboratory has attracted approximately 600 MSEK in public funding, and over the double in industrial in-kind contribution. The center has completed 150 projects, published over 800 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and generated 60 PhD theses.

Sven Wingquist – a global entrepreneur and social trendsetter

Sven Gustaf Wingqvist (1876-1953) was a Swedish engineer, inventor and industrialist, and one of the founders of Svenska Kullagerfabriken (SKF) from which Volvo later was founded. He was one of the world’s leading ball and roller bearing makers. He invented the multi-row, self-aligning radial ball bearing in 1907. It is in his honour the competence centre started.

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