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
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringnaval engineeringsea vessels
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssimulation software
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
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Participants (20)
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02044 VTT Espoo
28703 San Sebastian De Los Reyes - Madrid
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29016 Malaga
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NG7 2RD Nottingham
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33101 Tampere
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02150 Espoo
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00131 Roma
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10146 Torino
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10154 Torino To
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405 08 Goteborg
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412 96 Goteborg
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19400 Koropi
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18537 Peiraias
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117 45 Athena
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106 82 Athina
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2595 DA Den Haag
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4104 AZ Culemborg
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3012 Bern
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D04 PD25 Dublin
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33720 Tampere
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