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In category SEEDForest March 27, 2025
Data economy related capabilities, opportunities, and challenges in the future industrial operating environment

Recent report from the project Data economy in collaborative asset lifecycle solutions-Colife. The report combines interview results that aimed to clarify capabilities, challenges and opportunities of Colife consortium partners related to shared data in a future industrial operating environment.

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In category News, SEEDForest June 5, 2024
Kilpailukykyä datasta

Kilpailukykyä datasta (Competitiveness through data) is a project led by Sitra that works in close cooperation with SEEDForest. The project aims to identify data-based operating models as a competitive advantage for Finnish companies. Theme Production chain optimisationAdaptive asset lifecycle managementFuture Operations & Work Target areas Finnish industry Funding and project model Sitra Participants Finnish industry […]

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In category Article, News February 3, 2023
Cognitive Mimetics and Human Digital Twins featured in ERCIM news

Antero Karvonen (VTT) and Pertti Saariluoma (JyU) contributed an article to the special issue on “Cognitive AI & Cobots”

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In category News, SEEDForest December 21, 2022
Raportti: Data kestävän kehityksen mukaisessa tuotantoketjun ohjauksessa

The goal of this ’Data kestävän kehityksen mukaisessa tuotantoketjun ohjauksessa’ (Data in the management of the production chain according to sustainable development) report was to outline the capabilities and goals of the actors in the production chain to promote sustainable development through the exchange and utilization of data. Report in Finnish available here https://publications.vtt.fi/pdf/technology/2022/T411.pdf

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In category News May 18, 2022
Fundamental business values and opportunities for (more) digitalized engineering

Report ties together different aspects… The fundamental business values and opportunities for (more) digitalized engineering report ties together different aspects related to doing business with digital twins in the pulp and paper industrial engineering and processing contexts. These practical aspects have been identified, and the understanding in them has been developed during the SEED project especially in […]

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In category News March 29, 2022
SEEDForest ecosystem continuity

In the near future, the continuity of ecosystem will proceed under SEEDForest activities.

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In category Articles, News March 29, 2022
Research Driven PoC Descriptions

The linked presentation is a summary related to 11 SEED research driven proof-of concept works.

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In category News March 7, 2022
Make more informative scale up decisions

Erkki Siira

How could we evaluate new product concepts to get a better insight if the concepts could be scaled up? To give tools for the evaluation a set of properties affecting scaling up have been identified to help in go/no-go decisions. Quantification of scale up properties give possibilities to compare different concepts to each other.

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In category News February 28, 2022
Innovation ecosystem practices for successful cooperation

Jukka Kääriäinen, Pasi Valkokari & Katri Valkokari

Innovation ecosystems are complex undertakings where group of organisations with different backgrounds and often even representing different industrial domains work together to develop new innovative solutions. Since there are group of organisations working collaboratively this setting requires that the ecosystem has common terminology and clear roles, responsibilities and practices how to operate towards shared purpose. This is not easy task since different interests, as well as actors’ different expectations and mind-sets, may hinder the collaboration.

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