Smart Manufacturing | SIX Sustainable Industry X

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SIX Smart Manufacturing

Manufacturing is the backbone of the Finnish economy and a key foundation for growth. Finnish manufacturing industry’s strengths are discrete manufacturing and highly specialized one-off and small series production.

The metal and machinery industry is strong and combined with digitalization in product development, leads the way in e.g. intelligent machine building.

Six Smart Manufacturing enables wider industry-based cooperation between different actors in the development of innovation and know-how.

Brings together leading manufacturing companies to learn, develop and innovate together.

Objectives

Smart Manufacturing supports the Finnish discrete manufacturing companies on their sustainable digitalization journey in an industry-driven way.

Regular events for knowledge sharing, networking and learning.

Example:
SIX Manufacturing Club (Valmistusklubi)

Finnish manufacturing companies become forerunners in twin transition.

Our mission

We maintain long term ambitious development roadmap towards the next decade.

We build future competiveness by executing roadmap in close collaboration between research and industry.

Themes

A smart product generates new value

2030: A smart product helps to build and maintain itself during the lifecycle. Data collected throughout the product lifecycle from production to utilization brings new business opportunities, and feeds continuously the development of new products.

How: The manufacturer creates and maintains an identity for every product. Lifecycle data is connected to the product identity.

Green transition brings competitive
advantage for Finnish manufacturing

2030: Green transition is a source for new value. Products reduce the carbon footprint of the customer and whole value chain. Our business environment has adopted sustainability, which creates competetive advantage in a global scale.

How: The production is optimised by green data and it automatically reconfigures itself by the availability and type of recycled material. Lifetime of production assets are elongated with smart solutions. Products are designed to be circular – thus repairable, reconfigurable, and recyclable

Future supply network is resilient and agile

2030: Borders have disappeared from supply. Real-time supply network is customer-driven and responses quickly to individual demands. Data from the network creates new business opportunities.

How: Design for supply chain, data platforms enable transparency, green data collection, and creation of new value.The supply chain is simulated in advance to meet the desired goals. Regional supply networks enable tailoring close to customer and resiliense.

With novel manufacturing methods products match precisely customers’ needs

2030: Flexible methods generate new features, shapes, structures and materials for the product. The manufacturing methods do not limit the capabilities to build a product matching the exact customer needs.

How: Research, development, and manufacturing are integrated to R&D&M with a digital thread. Hybrid manufacturing combines subtractive and additive technologies.

Agile autonomous production lifts the competitiveness to a new level

2030: New product introduction can take place concurrently with the ongoing production. Robotic cells perform manufacturing phases autonomously, and the tools can be compiled automatically based on the product.

How: The production relies on autonomous decision making, real-time situational awareness and human support in the decision making. Production machines and systems are connected. Simulations and digital twins assure maintaining continuous operation.

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SIX Manufacturing EDIH

Sustainable Industry X (SIX) Manufacturing EDIH advances the discrete manufacturing SMEs on and forward the sustainable digitalization journey - in an industry-driven way. Scalability is in SIX Manufacturing EDIH’s DNA. It is an open platform, welcoming new collaborators, to make sustainable manufacturing the cornerstone of our wellbeing.