SmartAdvantage – Intelligent Assets and Smart Data-oriented Services as a Source of Competitive Advantage SMACC Research Seminar 10.10.2016 Toni Ahonen, Teuvo Uusitalo, Susanna Kunttu & Matti Hyvärinen

Content Goal of the project Research themes and division of work SmartAdvantage R&D ecosystem Expected results Conclusions and next steps

Goal The main goal of SmartAdvantage is to enhance value creation opportunities for industrial ecosystems by developing novel approaches and business models for digitalised asset management.

Research themes and division of work How can networked industrial companies develop and introduce new value-adding, data-based and knowledge-intensive services for supporting customers in the management of their assets in complex business and production environments? WP1 Enablers, barriers and visions for digitalisation in machine and productions systems sector. WP2 Data management and embedded intelligence in complex industrial systems through data-driven decision making. WP3 Knowledge-intensive and integrated asset management business models. WP4 Testing the methods and tools in case studies.

SmartAdvantage R&D ecosystem

Expected results managerial guidebook for exploiting the potential in digitalisation for asset management company case-specific development, directed by generic objectives and objectives to spread out the results for a variety of applications approaches, methods and tools to digital asset management services; publishing research results in project seminars, conferences and in scientific and professional journals according to open access principles; dissemination of the results through teaching and via commercial assignments; disseminating the results among the SMACC company network; research material for doctoral dissertations; and new, prioritized prospects for forthcoming research

Conclusions & Next steps SmartAdvantage encourages and supports companies to take a broad view on digitalised asset management and to develop their service portfolios by considering the following levels: business models, asset management approaches, data-driven services, and information management. Next steps roadmaps for digitalisation identification of the barriers and enablers utilisation of previous research results in case studies – tight collaboration between research institutes and companies

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