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PORSCHE TAKES OFF FOR AIR MOBILITY


Sports car manufacturer teams with aerospace giant to develop concept for premium personal air mobility


Premium car manufacturer, Porsche has teamed up with Boeing to explore the urban air mobility market. The two companies are expecting to make use of their market strengths and insights to study the future of premium personal urban air mobility vehicles. According to Porsche board member


Detlev von Platen, the company is looking to enhance its scope as a sports car manufacturer by extending its brand into other forms of mobility and move into what it refers to as the “third dimension of travel”. “We are combining the strengths of two very successful global companies to address


a potential key market segment of the future,” he says. As part of the partnership, the companies


will create an international team to address various aspects of urban air mobility, including analysing the market potential for premium vehicles and possible use cases. As part of the project, Boeing and


Porsche are developing a concept for a fully electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle. Engineers from both companies, as well as Porsche Engineering Services Studio F A Porsche, will implement and test a prototype. “This collaboration builds on our efforts


SCANNER CHOPS WAITING TIME FOR LOGGING TRUCKS


Sweden reduces waiting times for log trucks through digital scanning technology


A Swedish forestry specialist, is taking further steps towards achieving resource- efficient and digital forestry operations through the use of advanced three- dimensional image analysis of wood deliveries. This will enable the company to increase the efficiency of transport and boost the added value of the wood. According to Andreas Rastbäck, marketing


director at Holmen, this method makes wood scanning more accurate and the whole process more efficient. Unmanned measurement terminals offer the possibility to be open around the clock, creating greater accessibility and fewer queues. “In this way, we can make better use of


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❱❱ Porsche style could


soon take off to provide premium


personal air mobility


to develop a safe and efficient new mobility concept, and provides an opportunity to investigate the development of a premium urban air mobility vehicle with a major automotive brand,” says Steve Nordlund, vice-president and general manager of Boeing NeXt. A 2018 study by Porsche Consulting


forecasts that the urban air mobility market will pick up speed after 2025. The study also indicates that urban air mobility products will transport passengers more quickly and efficiently than current conventional means of terrestrial transport, at a lower cost and with greater flexibility.


driver that the load has been scanned and whether it has been approved for the plant it is heading to. This means more accurate scanning of the volume on which payment is based and faster unloading. The first measuring rig is destined to be


installed at the railway terminal in Vännäs with a further one to be installed at Holmen’s paper mill in Hallstavik, followed by one at the paper mill in Braviken. To this end, Holmen has signed an agreement with the Jönköping company Cind for the supply of measuring rigs, cameras and technology. “Holmen’s strategy to digitise and


❱❱ Digital scanning and measurement of log loads boosts efficiency in Sweden’s forestry industry


transport resources, which is good for both the work environment and the climate,” says Rastbäck. During wood scanning, the timber truck


drives in through an unmanned measuring rig where the logs’ diameter and solid volume percentage are read digitally. The information is immediately sent on to a log measurer, who then quickly informs the


streamline its wood measurement process fits well with our operations,” says Marcus Schelin, CEO at Cind. “They will be the first to use our new solid volume calculation function, and I look forward to forthcoming joint development efforts in other areas where machine learning will be an important component.” Digitisation in forestry creates


opportunities to gather and process data, making it easier to improve support for intelligent planning and decision-making for the forest industry.


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