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About me

I lead the production systems and technologies research group. My research interests are in manufacturing ICT and digitalisation, industrial robotics and human-robot collaboration, Re- and de-manufacturing in the framework of circular economy and life-long learning in technology rich environments. 

Responsibilities

I am is responsible of production automation major, production engineering major, and minor in Industrial Robotics at Tampere University. I co-lead the Robotics major. I am is responsible of a transfer education module (from BSc to MSc in digital manufacturing and data analytics) in Seinäjoki, which is targeted for employees of local companies. I and my team run different education related services for companies and society in regular basis. 

I supervise 20-30 MSc theses to industry annually. 

I usually give 30-40 presentations annually for national and international audience around the Europe.

Field of expertise

Core competences in the field of production engineering and production development

- Team building and competence enhancement

- Analytical skills

- Project Sales and Management

- Negotiation for win-win

- R&D (Horizon 1-3)

- Additional language: Fluent in Engineering to Common sense

- Public presentation and teaching

Research topics

I coordinate, manage, guide and support my research teams focusing on following topics:

1. Manufacturing ICT: Digitalisation of production, Smart Factory solutions, Digital Twins, APS/MES, KPI visualisation, UIs, semantic modelling, information management, agent-based/holonic manufacturing systems (in discrete part manufacturing) 
2. Robotics: Safety, HRI/C, Industrial robotics, virtual commissioning, and system design 
3. Circular economy : Technical cycles in the CE especially re-manufacturing, sustainable manufacturing in terms Social, Technical, Ecological, Economic and Political aspects
4. Continuous Learning: “Learning to learn” - methods, versatile methods and tools for learning in technology-rich environments 

Research unit

Automation technologies and mechanical engineering