Background

Industrial internet is a concept aiming to new functions of business. It has expanded to include the human functions at work and everyday life. A wider interpretation of the concept provides a possibility for broader know-how than the angle of traditional engineering to strengthen competitiveness of organizations and companies. The expected esult of the project – in addition of increasing competitiveness of the SMEs – is to create a model, on which the production, delivery, services and innovation models  can be integrated based on sustainable developments principles.

The partners of I3-project are Centria University of Applied Sciences, Technical University of Luleå (Luleå, Sweden) and Arctic University of Norway (Narvik, Norway). I3 is funded by the Interreg Nord, European Regional Development Fund.

Objective

Digitalisation offers great potential to many industries. It creates a base for free utilization of documents within the company as well as within companies and clusters in manufacturing, travel and creative industries, health care and education.

Together with open innovation, digitalisation enables new kind of value creation for example in adaptive scalability of companys business functions. Consumers and customers benefit on  value creation in everyday life.

Six Finnish companies or more will participate in the project to get their needs surveyed and to get suggestions of development and technology demonstrations. The developed solutions can be tested and piloted in practise on functions of a company.

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