Kerstin Johansen
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480
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About
Kerstin Johansen is a prominent researcher whose work sits at the intersection of industrial automation, human-robot collaboration, and sustainable manufacturing. With expertise spanning composite manufacturing, collaborative assembly systems, and circular economy practices, she has made substantial contributions to how industry approaches both efficiency and safety in automated environments. Johansen's most influential work includes a widely cited 2018 review on automated material handling in composite manufacturing (81 citations), which has become a key reference for engineers tackling pick-and-place automation challenges. Equally significant is her sustained focus on safety in human-robot collaboration, where she has developed and refined risk assessment methodologies—adapting traditional Job Safety Analysis frameworks for modern collaborative robotics contexts across multiple studies collectively garnering hundreds of citations. Her research consistently bridges theory and application, demonstrated through real-world case studies examining large industrial robots working alongside human operators on assembly lines, addressing situational awareness, workspace safety, and cell layout design. More recently, Johansen has extended her focus toward sustainability, investigating how product design can enable automated remanufacturing within circular economy frameworks (39 citations). Through over a decade of rigorous, application-driven scholarship, she has established herself as a leading voice in making advanced manufacturing both safer and more sustainable.
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- 10Automated Removal of Prepreg Backing Paper - A Sticky Problem20 citations · 2013