Objective
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.
Fields of science
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
FP7-2013-NMP-ICT-FOF(RTD)
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Funding Scheme
CP-IP - Large-scale integrating projectCoordinator
02150 Espoo
Finland
Participants (20)
Participation ended
02044 VTT Espoo
28703 San Sebastian De Los Reyes - Madrid
29016 Malaga
NG7 2RD Nottingham
33101 Tampere
02150 Espoo
00131 Roma
10146 Torino
10154 Torino To
405 08 Goteborg
41296 Goeteborg
19400 Koropi
18537 Peiraias
11745 Athena
10682 Athina
2595 DA Den Haag
4104 AZ Culemborg
3012 Bern
D04 PD25 Dublin
33720 Tampere