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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 (Tornos SA, 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 (Océ Technologies B.V., 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.

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Task 9.1 Communication, dissemination and ecosystem outreach: The objectives of this tasks are to ensure lively and capturing communications, active dissemination of project results and systematic outreach to the most relevant audiences, i.e., the CHARM project’s surrounding research and business ecosystem. The Coordinator leads the work. The communications and dissemination plans will be elaborated in detail in FPP phase in both Ch2.2 and T9.1. The plans will be reviewed and updated as the project starts, and reported in a separate deliverable. Task 9.2 Exploitation and IP issues: The core objective in this task is to systematically capture the exploitable technological outcomes of project to serve potential users e.g., in industries, research, policy makers and educators. This will be managed in close relationship with the other tasks in WP1 Project management and the rest of WP9 to ensure maximum exploitability of the project results. This task will involve all industrial partners and technology supplier within the consortium. • All partners participate in regular updating of the PUDF document (plan of use and dissemination of foreground) during the course of the project • The innovation potential, which is not identified in proposal writing phase will be captured and analysed by an internal survey of innovation spill-overs in M30. • The potential for IP and patenting is regularly reviewed in WPL meetings and F2F project meetings Selected partners will contribute in standardisation work. Task 9.3. Business plans for the UC demonstrators: The main objective of this task is to show the business case for future exploitation of the ecosystem and demonstrators created in the project. The future impact for different stakeholders will be investigated taking into account the viewpoint of end customers, utility companies, technology providers and equipment suppliers to name a few. The focus is in • Demonstrating the business case of the technology solution, such as the market situation (forecasts and evolution) and the acceptability of the technology cost • Identifying the potential, (also newly identified) future exploitation of the project results (spill-overs) The assessment of the expected socio-economic aspects such as public acceptance of the knowledge and technology generated, as well as the analysis of the factors that influence the exploitation, such as standardization needs, and market barriers.