Why and how does Elisa work on RWTH Aachen Campus? Kari Terho, Director of Elisa Smart Factory, responds in this interview.
Elisa is Finland’s dominant telecommunications provider. What is your strategy behind Smart Factory?
What is your rationale to become a member of the RWTH Aachen Campus?
Our vision is that in the future the most advanced plants will operate fully autonomous. Processes and machines in the production lines will be self-optimized by machine learning algorithms and AI. In addition, performance data of the plants are automatically distributed to relevant people with for example always updated predictions.
We believe that being a member of the RWTH Aachen Campus is a solution where everyone benefits. We learn the industrial process when building an industry 4.0 architecture. At the same time, we can provide our expertise about how to benefit from IoT solutions and how to build a fully autonomous plant.
How quickly could you make that decision?
What are Elisa Smart Factory’s key strengths and how do you put them in action within the European 4.0 Transformation Center (E4TC)?
We are really keen on waiting the results on what we can reach with machine learning and use of innovative technologies within the European 4.0 Transformation Center (E4TC).