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Beginnings – 2006

Volvo Construction Equipment AB develops a corporate standard stating geometrical tolerances and allowable defects in welded joints, i.e. weld quality. What separates this new standard STD 181-0004 (hyperlink) from the existing ISO5817 standard is that it has been developed to have a good correlation to fatigue. At this time however, there is no method or system available to inspect these welds according to the requirements set in the Volvo-standard

Automated scanning and quality assurance of welds – 2010

Eric Lindgren and Thomas Stenberg starts their master thesis under the supervision of Zuheir Barsoum to investigate if a commercial vision system could conduct the measurements needed. Eric and Thomas realizes that even though this vision system is capable to acquire the surface texture, it still require hands on involvement from an operator, which adds another source of scatter.

To solve this, Eric and Thomas started to write a numerical algorithm which would eliminate the need of hands on adjustments and allow for automated scanning and quality assurance of welds.

2013 – 2014

Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Swerea KIMAB starts a collaboration project. Martin Engman, joins the project as a programmer and makes the first conceptual implementation in a robotic welding cell.

A Swedish national research project (FFI-ONWELD) funded by VINNOVA starts between KTH, Swerea KIMAB and a number of industrial partners. A first prototype system is developed.

2015

The project wins the Swedish Steel Prize University Challenge via Thomas Stenberg. Photo from SSAB, Photo: Henrik Hansson

The company was founded - 2016

Eric Lindgren, Thomas Stenberg, Martin Engman and Zuheir Barsoum is founding the company which at the time was named Nordic Welding Engineering AB.

Winteria AB is granted funding from VINNOVA – VINN Verifiering to commercialize the system

Winteria AB is granted funding from Triple Steelix to develop a mobile demonstrator

Thomas Stenberg defends his doctoral thesis within the quality assessment of welded components subjected to fatigue.

Investments – 2017

Winteria AB receives an investment from KTH Holding and is selected to STINGs incubate program

Winteria AB receives Swedbank Rivstart and Boost Innovation.

Winteria AB - 2018

The name of the company was changed to Winteria AB. Winteria was also tademark protected.

Winteria FLEX – 2020

With input from our customers we have developed a flexible and easy to use handheld system for quality inspection of welded structures.

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