Intelligent Machines
Intelligent Macines –cluster programme
The purpose of the Intelligent Machines cluster programme is to transform Finland into a leading country with international networks in the field of development and manufacture of intelligent work machines by 2013. The cluster programme is creating a Europe-wide co-operation network in which Finnish companies will be central operators.
Machine-building requires strong expertise in technology and capabilities for rapid response to demanding customer needs. The intelligence of the machines, the new design methodologies, investment in the service business, and good management of the product’s life cycle are the central factors for successnow and as these requirements grow in the future. The challenges can be met only through smooth co-operation. Solid expertise and a pioneering spirit provide the companies and research institutions participating in the clusterprogramme with competitive advantages and aid in fast growth and internationalisation.
The cluster concentrates on developing the field in all phases of the life cycle of the intelligent machines, from product design to development of the flexible production needed for manufacturing the machines, and of the necessary logistics and business expertise.
In addition to machines and devices, more and more intelligent comprehensive solutions and capacity offerings are sold. The cluster programme promotes strategic cooperation between companies and research institutions, and transfer of information and technology.
The innovativeness and added value of the Intelligent Machines expertise cluster are created via co-operation based on national mini-clusters, cluster-level expertise responsibilities, and appropriate distribution of tasks.
The Centres of Expertises that are part of Intelligent Machine Cluster Progreamme are Tampere Region Centre of Expertise (Hermia Oy), Hyvinkää – Riihimäki Region Centre of Expertise (Technology centre TechVilla Oy),Häme Centre of Expertise (Technology centre Innopark Oy), Seinäjoki Region Centre of Expertise (Seinäjoki Centre for Technology and Innovation), South-East Finland Centre of Expertise (Lappeenranta Innovation Oy / Lappeenranta University of Technology)
Focus Areas
The expertise cluster engages a significant number of machine-building companies in creating strategies for the industry’s future and, in co-operation with the research institutions, in starting and financing research and development projects in the following fields:
· Mobile work machines
· Machines and devices for agriculture and
· the forest industry
· Machines and devices for the food industry
· Special vehicles
· Factory automation
· Lifting, moving, and logistics
· Machines and devices for process-industry use
· Coating and corrosion prevention
With the help of the cluster programme, new business operation models can be created, and both leadership in technology and business operations in most critical production areas can be maintained in Finland.
Contact details
Toni Sulameri
Programme Director
toni.sulameri@hermia.fi
+358 50 524 9609
Timo Rainio
Project Manager
timo.rainio@hermia.fi
+358 500 736605
www.intelligentmachines.fi
Hermia Oy
Hermiankatu 1
FI-33720
Tampere
Finland
Tel. +358 (0)46 712 3100
www.hermia.fi
