House Visit                                                               Jan. 23

WirelessCar Visit

Ferry ride to Per Norline's home

Our first stop was to WirelessCar where we met with Martin Lundh who is the manager. He works mainly under the service strategy and innovation divisions. Wireless Car is telematics made easy and it has an operator of connected services for the automotive industry. They are a recently new company, but they are located worldwide and they are continuing to grow. Their main competition is Google because they are coming out with so many new technologies to make things easier for everyone in their daily life. During our presentation Martin said that self driving cars are in the near future by using technology that is able to read driver behavior.  Humans make mistakes all the time but technology doesn't make mistakes.  

Quote from WirelessCar:

"In the car world it is a lot about prediction"

Next, we went to Getingne where we met with Per Norlin who is the senior manager of automation. Getingne has three different branches and Per works at the branch that makes sterilization tools and equipment for hospitals. One of the biggest points about their sterilization machines is that they need to be very user friendly. That way it won't take too long to figure out how to use the machines and they will be used efficiently. When the company was first breaking into the market they had a lot of struggles. Now they are doing very well and they have a 15% growth rate each year excluding the last three years. 

Dinner at Per and Asa Norlines

After our visit there we went to Per's house and met his wife Asa. They live on the island of Hisingen right on the ocean. Their backyard looks out at the ocean and they have a wonderful view. Going to their house was very fun and it was super nice of them to invite us all over for a very good seafood dinner. Hearing all of their stories and laughing with them over dinner was a truly great time and left us all with some great memories. Eating the seafood was not an easy task however because we had to crack the shell open and they were really thick! In the process of trying to open the shells, I got sprayed in the face twice. It wasn't a pleasant experience but it was certainly memorable. After a delicious meal we all went upstairs and talked about our different experiences here so far and we got to hear a few more stories about themselves as well. 

Daily Reflections:

• it is a very honorable thing to be invited to a Swedes home for dinner
• you can't expect everything to run smoothly right from the start, all good things take time
• technology is changing rapidly and new things are being designed every year