A case study on an SME moving from products towards offering an Industrial Product-Service System got the ”Best Paper-award” at the conference The 9th CIRP Industrial Product-Service Systems Conference in Copenhagen on 19th-21st of June2017.
In an article, titled ”Optimizing Recycling Management Using Industrial Internet Supporting Circular Economy: A Case Study of an Emerging IPS”, the authors Anders Hermanson and Mats Hellis from Adage AB together with John Lindström and Petter Kyösti from ProcessIT at Luleå University of Technology outlines the case of Adage AB. The case covers a high-tech Small- and Medium sized Enterprise (SME), which has developed the idea how recycling logistics can be improved by using Internet-of-Things, the industrial internet and cloud services, from a simplistic offer to an advanced system where products have been integrated with services. Early indications show that both economic and environmental gains can be made with this industrial product-service system.
Further, the case outlines that technology, business and organization need to go hand in hand to be successful. Adage AB’s offer is based on the Arrowhead Framework, and enables faster and simpler development of sensor-based solutions. The Arrowhead Framework is continuously being developed, after the original Arrowhead project that ended early 2017, in the Productive4.0 project which started during the Spring of 2017. Luleå University of Technology and BnearIT AB, the mother company of Adage AB, previously participated in the Arrowhead project and both continue in the Productive4.0 project for another four years.
If interested to read the article, it is available here for free in PDF-format.
John Lindström and Petter Kyösti
Luleå University of Technology
