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European Roadmap for Industrial Process Automation under Renewal

Project Manager Seppo Saari from Lapland University of Applied Sciences describes ProcessIT.EU elements in the project as follows: ARTEMIS Technology Platform and ProcessIT.EU (artemis-ia.eu/artemis-etp.html) ARTEMIS is the official European Technology Platform (ETP) on Embedded Intelligence. It is an industry-led stakeholder forum as key actor in driving research and innovation, community building, knowledge transfer and European competitiveness.…
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The series of SME-workshops opened in Finland

The first Finnish Process-SME workshop was held in Nivala, Finland on 2nd of May 2017. Project manager Seppo Saari from Lapland University of Applied Sciences informed participants on the motivation, goals and business possibilities in the project. Research manager Matti Muhos from University of Oulu, Microentrepreneurship research team MicroENTRE, in turn, informed about why and…
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Maiden voyage at the Oulu River delta

The services cannot be designed and manufactured in isolation, like products. They are co-created with the customers and are interdependent with wider service networks and clusters. (Gray and Vander Wal, 2014, p. VII) This Saturday evening I started my spring season by taking my ‘new’ wooden river boat to its maiden voyage at the Oulu…
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Seafood industry in upturn

With a downturn in the Norwegian petroleum industry, what other opportunities can be found for SME supplier companies? The harvesting of food from the sea predates the petroleum era by many centuries, and looks to have potential to regain the role as the leading Norwegian industry in terms of export value. One objective of the…
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Workshop: Advanced SME services for international process industry (Nivala, Finland)

Aika: Tiistai 02.05.2017 klo 16-18 Paikka: Nivalan Teollisuuskylä (Pajatie 5, Nivala) Pk-liiketoiminnasta kansainvälisiä palveluita prosessiteollisuuteen -työpaja on tarkoitettu Pohjois-Suomessa toimiville yrityksille, jotka haluavat lisätä kannattavuuttaan tarjoamalla innovatiivisa palveluita tuotanto- ja prosessiteollisuudelle. Työpajan sisältö: Kuinka pk-yritys voi kehittää liiketoimintaansa edistyneiden palveluiden avulla? Pk-yritysten kasvustrategiat ProcessSME-hankkeen tarjoamat mahdollisuudet Työskentelyä pienryhmissä ja verkostoitumista Jatkotoimenpiteistä sopiminen Ilmoittautumiset 24.4. mennessä:…
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