Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
Research and technology development leader with passion to build a better future. By nature, a big picture thinker with unique perspectives and innovative approaches. Over 25 year experience in various stages of R&D with non-road mobile machinery and pulp&paper global manufacturers. Successful results in bringing new technologies and engineering methods for heavy equipment building. Specialities: Simulation based engineering, product development, research management, R&D partnering
Research team leader & program manager carrying out cooperation projects with technology suppliers and research institutes. Responsible of research and lower technology readiness level technology development for drilling and other hard rock interfacing systems.
FIMA is a network for mobile work machine manufacturers, specialist companies, system integrators and research institutes. It promotes and outlines research and product development in the field in accordance with this industry’s needs. FIMA's board steers the activities and development of this network, and thus supports FIMA's secretary-general in delivering value to the member companies. http://www.fima.fi
The core of my work was to build up virtual models of machines and their sub-systems and simulate their function in order to: - test virtually new ideas in product development - study and solve problems - support dimensioning of components. I coordinated subcontrating in the area of Multibody System Simulation and developed simulation tools, models and processes with global Deere expert community and with Finnish research institutes. Besides simulation related tasks, I developed processes of Designing for Reliability.
I did research on modeling human as a part of mobile working machine system and tested mobile elevating platforms.
I focused on developing models for dynamic simulation of log grinding and studying inverse problems related to measuring grinding forces. I worked also in other research projects with paper industry and paper and construction machine manufacturers. Part of my job was teaching on TUT courses.