Last night was a late one as just about all of us were staying up
late trying to finish some work for classes. Once we hit 1 A.M. a few of us
needed to take a break from three hours worth of work so we started a few pool
games. It was nice and relaxing. Although after these games of pool I was done
and ready to pass out. This led to an extremely slow start this morning. Before
I knew it though we were on our way to our first company of the day.
Vela was our first stop today and they are a patent and IP firm in
Gothenburg. They have quite a few highly qualified customers. Right away when
we got there we signed a confidentiality form stating that we could not take
pictures of release any confidential information. Basically we went over how
patents and IP’s work for companies. I thought it was a very interesting
presentation we covered some pretty funny patents that are currently out on the
market. But he also went over some of the rules that keep companies from keeping
monopolies for to long. We also went over options that companies have with
their patents. Such as selling them or trying to keep competitors out of the
market. It was a very informational experience and I learned a lot of new
information.
SKF the best ball bearring company in the world. They have so many
different types of ball baring equipment from things such as an airplane to
something as simple as a kitchen blender. One of their biggest consumers is Volvo
Car company where they create ball bearings for the engine as well as what
seems to be ABB robots as a follower. This was our next company that we visited
in Gothenburg. We didn’t actually get meet any of the board members or the CEO.
Instead we went on a tour of SKF where we looked at some of the products that
SKF produces. They had a Audi engine as one of the displays and on the screen
they had a picture of a car and you could make it transparent so you would be
able to see inside of the car and it would highlight which parts were made by
SKF. I thought this was very cool that they were getting this specific when
trying to show there parts. The next stop on our trip was the SKF factory. We
were not allowed to take pictures during this part of the tour but we got to
see a lot of ABB robots in action. It was very cool to actually see a factory
that produced some larger industrial goods. Overall SKF seems to be a very
strong company and our great tour guide did an excellent job of showing that.
Our dinner tonight was so awesome!! We went to a place called
Swedish Taste. At Swedish Taste they have Chefs help you make dishes of food.
It was so cool to actually make your own full meal for once properly. We were
split up into four groups of four. I must say right off the bat I knew I had a
fantastic group! I was with Megan, Nick, and Peter and they all had some
background in food. I was the only one left out of that. We had four different
meals a starter, a soup, a main dish, and desert. Our group was given that main
dish… we absolutely killed it! Peter and I started off cooking some of the
reindeer meat. We seasoned it with some salt, pepper, chili and cinnamon
spices. After we finished the seasoning we went over and started cooking it. At
first we were a little skeptical about how well we were cooking it on the stove
but as soon as one of the chefs came by and said they looked great Pete and I
both knew it was going to be delicious. While I was waiting for the Reindeer to
cook I helped out where I could to help Nick and Megan with their dishes. Not
for very long though because shortly after this Pete and I realized that we had
two more items to make. So we both picked one, I picked the black cabbage
vinaigrette. I must say I am not a big fan of any type of salad but boy was
this good! I learned quite a bit about how to cut some of these vegetables properly
and season the salad. After we finished all of our meals we sat down and began
eating. 
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