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Digitalization has been identified as one of the most powerful enablers of renewal and competitiveness of European manufacturing industries. However, grasping the digitalization and IoT related opportunities can be limited by the harsh environmental conditions of the manufacturing process and/or end use environment – there’s no IoT without functioning electronics components and systems. Particularly, together with the requirement for small form factors, the simultaneous combination of severe thermal, mechanical and chemical stress is difficult for components and systems intended for current IoT systems. CHARM aims to contribute in solving this issue by developing Electronics, Components and Systems (ECS1) technologies with improved tolerance towards harsh industrial surroundings.CHARM will develop condition monitoring, predictive maintenance, automation, real-time manufacturing control and optimisation, and virtual prototyping system demonstrators and test them in industrial settings to tackle real industrial challenges and needs from different types of end use industries. The synergies and impacts arise from similarities in technology solutions serving different applications and industrial sectors. The CHARM Use Cases (UCs) include six different industrial sectors, majority of them represented by innovative cutting-edge large enterprises that belong to the world-wide market leaders of their own sectors – but are still newcomers to the ECSEL ecosystem. The Use Cases include: UC1 IoT for digital mining solutions (Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy, FI) UC2 Condition monitoring of paper mill equipment (Valmet Technologies Oy, FI) UC3 Real-time machining workpiece control system (Sylvac, CH) UC4 Real-time monitoring of solar panel manufacturing lines (Applied Materials Italia SRL, IT) UC5 Nuclear plant maintenance and decommissioning (ÚJV Rez a.s., CZ) UC6 Virtual prototyping professional digital printers (Canon, NL)

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Lapland UAS delivered a data integrator as part of UC2 Condition monitoring of paper mill equipment, it’s purpose was to collect data from various sources, including wireless sensors developed by Nome. For UC1, Lapland UAS delivered a virtual autonomous driving simulator for mining environments. Additionally, Lapland UAS assisted in development of a multi-sensor integration unit towards the end of the project. Lapland UAS also provided testing services for electronics and electronics adjacent systems, which mainly focused on testing protection against harsh industrial environments. Various small software solutions were also developed. These have been released via GitHub to the public.