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Platform of
Excellence (PoE)
Platform of excellence for Finnish knowhow in twin transition of mobile work machines
(SIX PoE)
There are several mobile work machine development companies in Finland that are market leaders in their own field. They also utilize a large number of partner and supplier companies in their development. This network forms the core of Finnish export industry and their effect on Finnish GDP and wellbeing is substantial. There is, however, a digital and green transition and disruption going on and the companies need to react, restructure and redesign their offering. This will require a completely new set of skills and know-how.
A cluster of mobile work machine companies have created a joint roadmap for future development and to answer to this need. The roadmap also gives guidelines about future research needs and competence development needs. This project will facilitate a research network to complement the roadmap created by the cluster. Future development will require top research and education and collaboration of different universities and their knowhow and platforms. Tampere University has announced a Platform of Excellence (PoE) to support this development. And this project aims to strengthen the PoE with creating a national and international top research and education network. Core partners come from Turku, Lappeenranta and Vaasa.
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Mobile Machine Academic Fellows (MMAB) coordinates, deepens and strengthens collaboration between universities and with industry to foster an innovation ecosystem in mobile work machine industry, enabling the most competent research & innovation environment in the world for the industry, as well as new businesses, and increase the visibility and impact in Finland and globally.
Roadmap
The cluster of Mobile Work Machines, has brought together industry and research perspectives in an annually updated roadmap. The roadmap includes both industry and research views on the future of mobile work machines and has created a picture of the future needs of the sector. The cluster’s vision is for Finland to be the best place in the world for developing mobile work machines, their key technologies, and services by 2025. The roadmap has facilitated cooperation between industry and research, helping to outline the continuum of research and technology development.
Companies such as Kalmar, Ponsse, Sandvik, and Valtra, as well as research institutions like Tampere University and VTT, have played a central role in creating the roadmap. The roadmap has enabled smoother cooperation and the transfer of research knowledge to companies. The cluster’s participants have found the roadmap practically useful, accelerating the utilization of research knowledge in the industry. Through the cluster and roadmaps, the aim is to build the world’s best environment for developing mobile work machines in Finland.
Intelligent Work Machines doctoral program (IWM)
The IWM doctoral program educates new generations of professionals to the PhD level with multidisciplinary engineering knowledge needed for intelligent machinery development. The doctoral training connects academic research excellence with a relevant industrial research and development challenges and accelerate industrial renewal in the machine industry.
The IWM doctoral program collects the leading departments and research groups in Finland. In the program there are 31 positions in five Finnish universities: Aalto University, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Tampere University, University of Oulu and University of Turku.
International collaboration
The Finnish SIX Platform of Excellence (PoE) aims to foster agile international collaboration. The network, which includes top Finnish universities and major machine manufacturers, is actively seeking collaboration opportunities with European research institutions. The goal is to leverage the best expertise and research available, regardless of location.
Finland already has strong research capabilities, which can be further enhanced through partnerships with leading international research institutions.
Some of the first steps has been, for example, sharing data on research results and methodologies, joint webinars and workshops.
Contact person:
Johannes Hyrynen
Competence profiles
The University of Tampere has developed a platform of excellence for mobile work machines. The Platform of Excellence (PoE) was formed in cooperation with the SIX Mobile Work Machines cluster companies.
In order to ensure the availability of experts, we have built competence profiles expected by the industry.
These profiles are used in the planning of higher education curricula and in communication between companies and higher education institutions. The measure combined Finnish and international excellence into a single entity and cooperation network. The work was carried out using the C&Q competence classification.
Significant leading companies in the field of construction machinery and almost all higher education institutions from different parts of Finland participated in the implementation of the definition of competence profiles.
Automation and robotics, digitalization, sustainable development, machine design and electrification were selected as the main industries. For each sub-area, the most important competence areas were defined, as well as the level required by the industry, the importance and the source of competence acquisition - whether competence is obtained from an educational institution or working life.
The results of the work have also been analyzed and visualized. In order to ensure the availability of experts, the competence profiles are used in the planning of higher education curricula and in communication between companies and higher education institutions.
Regulation work
In terms of engaging with regulatory developments, the regulation relevant to mobile work machines was examined, for example energy and environmental regulations, machinery directives, AI and data regulations, as well as the possibilities for anticipating regulation and influencing regulatory processes.
Based on the main insights from interviews with industry and public sector actors monitoring the regulation of work machines, a blog post was published, and a workshop was planned. In the workshop, a situational map of key regulations concerning mobile work machines was created, and the most important observations requiring action were listed. A second blog post was written on the results of the workshop.
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