ProcessIT Innovations is a collaboration centre in northern Sweden. The strategic concept of ProcessIT Innovations is to bring together the functional process and engineering industry in the region with ICT (information and communication technology) services in universities and industry.
The aim is to reinforce existing primary industries and develop the region’s ICT-industry to an internationally competitive position. This concept meets the challenges faced by today’s knowledge-intensive, high-technology primary industry with the extensive knowledge developed by the region’s ICT services. Process IT’s vision is therefore to establish in the area a leading European R&D centre in ICT for primary industry.
From the start 2005 ProcessIT Innovations has run
about fifty projects and preliminary studies. The company has focused on four main fields: measurement systems, control systems, communications systems and interaction systems. However, in almost all cases, the projects have links to more than one main field. For instance, what may appear at first to be a delimited measurement or control problem in fact also affects how communication in the process is to be designed or what interaction is needed. The measurement system projects deal mainly with properties of materials in the flow of materials. One important issue has been non destructive evaluation and testing systems based on optical measurement or measurement based on ultrasound.
Control system projects have dealt with building and handling models. Within the process industry, there is complex plant equipment which can make it difficult to make measurements. The use of models makes it easier to understand these processes.
When it comes to communication systems, the big issue has often been on handling wireless communication in tough conditions and extreme environments. Here the aim has been to provide support to mobile equipment and mobile people. Interaction systems involve being able to present complex information in a better way.
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