In the past, customers invested in high cost, long service-life products. Today, they demand complex product-services capable of adapting to new customer goals and rapidly changing markets. The Use-it-wisely project will enable European manufacturers to operate successfully within this new paradigm. The project will investigate a new business model that implements continuous product-service adaptation through a sequence of small innovative steps. It will demonstrate that product-service agility and extended service life realized in this way is more viable than large and infrequent upgrades in terms of cost, duration and environmental impact. Use-it-wisely will develop and demonstrate the adaptation platform consisting of the following three elements: (1) multi-disciplinary actors-product-service system model; (2) adaptation mechanism based on the knowledge and skills of all actors involved with the system; (3) interactive collaborative distributed environment, where the actors work out the adaptation steps. The scientific breakthrough will be achieved by creating and validating a holistic systems engineering structure that combines human-machine systems, product lifecycle management, business and organizational dynamics and lifecycle assessment. The industry-led consortium is founded on complementary clusters in six key industry sectors: energy, machinery, space, office workplace, vehicles, and ship building. Use-it-wisely will enable new business for the manufacturers and their suppliers, subcontractors and open new opportunities for the customers. It will increase their competitive advantage by means of product-service agility, lower costs, shorter lead times, and reduced environmental impact. Finally, it will help to transform people’s knowledge and skills into product-service value thus strengthening Europe’s global competitiveness and securing domestic employment. With Use-it-wisely, the more the product-service is used, the better it gets.
| Web resources: | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/609027 |
| Start date: | 01-09-2013 |
| End date: | 30-11-2016 |
| Total budget - Public funding: | 8 592 106,00 Euro - 6 440 000,00 Euro |
Original description
In the past, customers invested in high cost, long service-life products. Today, they demand complex product-services capable of adapting to new customer goals and rapidly changing markets. The Use-it-wisely project will enable European manufacturers to operate successfully within this new paradigm.The project will investigate a new business model that implements continuous product-service adaptation through a sequence of small innovative steps. It will demonstrate that product-service agility and extended service life realized in this way is more viable than large and infrequent upgrades in terms of cost, duration and environmental impact.
Use-it-wisely will develop and demonstrate the adaptation platform consisting of the following three elements: (1) multi-disciplinary actors-product-service system model; (2) adaptation mechanism based on the knowledge and skills of all actors involved with the system; (3) interactive collaborative distributed environment, where the actors work out the adaptation steps. The scientific breakthrough will be achieved by creating and validating a holistic systems engineering structure that combines human-machine systems, product lifecycle management, business and organizational dynamics and lifecycle assessment.
The industry-led consortium is founded on complementary clusters in six key industry sectors: energy, machinery, space, office workplace, vehicles, and ship building. Use-it-wisely will enable new business for the manufacturers and their suppliers, subcontractors and open new opportunities for the customers. It will increase their competitive advantage by means of product-service agility, lower costs, shorter lead times, and reduced environmental impact. Finally, it will help to transform people’s knowledge and skills into product-service value thus strengthening Europe’s global competitiveness and securing domestic employment. With Use-it-wisely, the more the product-service is used, the better it gets.
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27-10-2022Factories of the Future Partnership - Made in Europe Partnership
Personalised product upgrade service based on data from on-site 3D scanning.
A Circular Life-Cycle Assesmen tool (C-LCA) that measures the environmental impact of initial production and all adjustments during the lifetime of a piece of furniture.
3D laser scanning techniques
Augmentation of upgrade design solutions on in-situ equipment
VR solution based on combined pointcloud and 3D models
VR models based on photogrammetric and laser scanning techniques
Digital factory model from 3D laser scanning combined with Virtual Reality models
The 3D viewer tool is used to facilitate communication between service personnell and techniacal experts. It also support storing and exchange of service information.
The demoinstrated tool can be used to support education and traing by providing a shared collabortative 3D environment of the target system
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| TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT OY (Coördinator)
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| ADVANCED LOGISTICS TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING CENTER SPA
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| BERNER FACHHOCHSCHULE
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| C.C.I.C.C. LIMITED
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| Carr Communications Limited
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| Chalmers University of Technology
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| GISPEN INTERNATIONAL BV
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| Hermia Business Development Ltd
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| INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS
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| INTERNATIONAL NAVAL SURVEYS BUREAU
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| Institute for Advanced Manufacturing - University of Nottingham
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| M. MOSCHATOS - K. STRATIS OE
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| METSO MINERALS OY
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| NAYTILIAKES METAFORIKES KAI EPIKOINONIAKES EPIXEIRISEIS SEABILITY ETAIREIA PERIORISMENIS EUTHINIS
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| RD VELHO OY