The Flexible Process Industrial Logistics of the Future
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| Coordinator | SICS Swedish ICT Västerås AB |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 500 000 |
| Project duration | November 2014 - April 2015 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | Strategic innovation programme for process industrial IT and automation – PiiA |
| Call | Strategiska innovationsprogrammet PiiA - hösten 2014 |
Important results from the project
The project´s aim was to examine how ICT can be used to get more efficient traffic flows for process industry products. Project interviews and workshop discussions confirmed the already known challenges and problems, but also identified several areas for improvement. Our analysis will lead to proposals with the aim to increase cost-effectiveness, improved predictability and secured transport quality for process industry.
Expected long term effects
The project resulted in many different approach ideas for a more efficient and predictable logistics for the process industry. Sharing the information and collaboration between the industry and different transport companies, traceable transport will reduces the cost and improves the predictability and quality of transport. The project results are summarized in a report. The results from the project are used to form new collaboration in logistics planning / optimization for future Piia-application.
Approach and implementation
The project did interviews with all the project participants and the results were presented in the SICS Open House. The project had two workshops where all project participants presented their views on improved transport for industry, as well as inspiring lectures on efficient transportation. Furthermore, the results from the project reconnected to all partners.