Two days. Two real problems from Alfa Laval’s Additive Manufacturing Technology Centre.
AMTC in Eskilstuna is moving from development into production 3D printing. Two things slow them down, and both come down to the same thing: the geometry of a legacy spare part often exists only as a scanned paper drawing. Your job is to get a machine to read those drawings.
Alfa Laval provides real sample drawings and data, wewill give you AI tools at kick-off. Mentors and engineers are on site both days.
The challenges
01 · From 2D drawing to printable 3D model
Read a scanned engineering drawing — PDF or JPG, multi-view, with dimensions and tolerances — and generate a 3D model in STEP or STL. Computer vision to find the views, OCR for the dimensions, geometry reconstruction from there. A good solution also knows when it can’t be trusted and says so.
Today an engineer re-models each part by hand in CAD. That is the bottleneck.
02 · Predicting cost from a drawing
Same input, different output: what will this part cost to print? Volume, weight, build orientation, how many fit on a build plate, machine time, material. All estimated from the 2D drawing, before any 3D model exists. Every number in the cost report has to show the assumption behind it.
Today this is manual work, and it limits how fast AMTC can answer internal requests.
Who should apply
Students and professionals. Engineering, Computer Science, Production, Design – the challenges need all of it. Teams of 4–6.
Apply as a team or on your own. We form teams on the first morning.
Places are limited and applications are reviewed for skill fit, so apply early.
What you get
A trophy.
Certificates for everyone.
A study visit to Alfa Laval’s Additive Manufacturing Technology Centre for the top three teams.
Two days of direct access to the engineers who own these problems, and real industrial data to work on. Lunch and coffee included.
How it runs
Day 1 — 09:00 registration · 09:30 challenge briefings from Alfa Laval, MITC tour · 10:30 team formation · 11:00 build, with mentor check-ins · 17:00 close
Day 2 — 09:00 build · 11:30 pitch training · 14:30 final presentations · 16:30 awards
Judged on feasibility, usability, and whether the approach could scale beyond a demo.
HackFactory is more than a competition; it’s a platform to showcase your innovative solutions to the world. With the power of collaboration, technology, and a dash of creativity, we can engineer a smarter, more sustainable future for the manufacturing industry.
All of the following combinations are welcome to take part:
- Good idea, but no team = welcome!
- Good idea, and with team = welcome!
- No idea but with team = welcome!
- No idea and no team = welcome!
So, regardless of gender or background, if you’re a generalist or a specialist, an arts person or a science person, a tech person or student or professional, or anything else for that matter, you are invited to take part in this Hackfactory.
Practical
MITC, John Engellaus gata 1, 633 61 Eskilstuna · Parking
Free to attend
Do you have a problem worth solving?
If there’s something in your production, your data or your processes you’d like fresh eyes on, we can turn it into a challenge for a future HackFactory. You bring the problem and someone who can answer questions during the two days. We handle the format, the participants and the rest.
ebin.ephrem@mitc.se · +46 76 45 343 71