VA digitalization in a smart ecosystem

Purpose and goal

The purpose of the project was to gather, to PiiA, new and existing parties in an open prestudy project focusing on water intensive process industries and municipality owned water and waste treatment with the intent of finding synergies within industrial IT and automation. Project goals: - Form prerequisites for innovation projects within the Water/Waste field - Gather suppliers, interests organisations and key players - Examine need for Information Management and Asset Management (ISO 55000) - Compile a report for publication - Make project proposals All goals achieved

Expected results and effects

The project result was a new type of network of persons and organisations, including suppliers, municipalities and process industries with large scale handling of water and waste. The project has identified a number of challenges within IT, safety, measurement technology, automation and processcontrol. A number of challenges was known but confirmed to span over several fields of interests. The project will spread new knowledge, affect future calls and result in continuation projects.

Planned approach and implementation

The project was supposed to be conducted through a series of workshops, a number of interviews and study visits at varoius production sites. The plan had to be altered due to restrictions with regards to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The workshop series was partly interchanged with a number of video meetings with a mixture of operational presentations and panel talks. To that some on-line workshops was added focusing on continued work and cyber security for infrastructure critical to the society. All study visits where cancelled and replaced by focused interviews