Industrial products and services must be continually upgraded to meet changing demands of enhanced functionality and performance. The digital transformation of industry, together with new emerging technologies, enables improved solutions but at the same time cause increasing complexity and interdependence between system components. New forms of collaboration across the value chain are necessary to deliver sustainable solutions to satisfy current and future needs. The UIW-approach builds on the idea of a continuous incremental upgrade process carried out in collaborative effort between actors and stakeholders with the common objective to achieve a sustainable project life-cycle. Based on this approach a conceptual framework is defined. The UIW-framework includes an adaptation mechanism designed to account for the diverse influence factors affecting the upgrade design, a multi-disciplinary system model definition integrating actor, product and service data, and a virtual collaboration environment to facilitate the interaction between actors and a collection of tools and methods to support the collective efforts. The UIW-framework is used as a template for system implementations in installations in various actor networks.
Vessel traffic management and control systems are employed to ensure the safety and efficiency of maritime traffic. In search for optimal support of Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) operators in performing their task, tools are developed continuously. This paper describes how the real users of the systems (VTS operators and managers) were involved in the design and testing of new tools. This was achieved by creating a user forum for discussing the results of the research. At the same time a performance based method for measuring situation awareness of VTS operators (SATest) was developed tested and implemented.
As an example of the procedure used, one such tool is presented. The tool tested in this experiment is a path prediction tool for VTS use in a non-dense traffic area - (the Finnish archipelago). The tool predicts the future path position of vessels one-minute ahead. To see whether this tool could have implications for grounding avoidance monitoring by VTS, it was presented to the user forum and tested using SATest. This paper presents the results of the tests.
The manufacturing industry is changing. Driven by a number of concurrent trends, including economic and political development, technological breakthroughs and social connectivity, the impacts on industry in general are fundamental. Companies need to find ways to adapt to this change in collaboration with actors across their value networks. For long-life industrial assets, i.e., industrial product-service systems, both economically and environmentally sustainable solutions become an imperative supported by new business models-based collaborative value creation. In an EU-funded research project twenty organisations including three research institutes, four universities and thirteen companies studied, developed and demonstrated ways to deal with the dynamics of long-life assets. The main findings are summarised in this book. This chapter provides a brief introduction to the topic and presents the structure of the rest of this book.
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