AiWo Partners
The aim of AiWo is to equip Finnish companies with cutting-edge AI technologies and human-centric collaborative methods to thrive in the competitive international markets. The AiWo consortium, comprised of 4 academic partners and 7 industrial partners spanning the fields of manufacturing, construction, and industrial design, will collaborate to achieve the project objectives.
Link: https://www.aalto.fi/en/wearable-systems-lab
Wearable Systems Lab specializes in AI for computer vision and wearable computing. The lab also provides advanced facilities for developing and testing prototypes of e-textile–based wearable devices, as well as augmented, virtual, and mixed reality applications.
In the AiWo project, Wearable Systems Lab focuses on creating innovative AI solutions for vision–language understanding of human activities and tasks in real-world environments. They also develop AI-driven instruction generation systems to support human operators, helping them know what to do and how to perform their tasks effectively and safely.
Link: https://research.tuni.fi/pirg/
Tampere University’s team specializes in human-technology interaction, focusing on inclusive, intelligent, and user-friendly digital environments. In the AIWo project, Tampere University leads Work Package 3, which explores and develops AI-assisted collaboration and interaction tools for industrial fieldwork. Together with Turku University of Applied Sciences, the team investigates the most suitable interaction methods for AI-generated assistance, including speech, audio, gestures, haptics, and other modalities. The goal is to enhance situation awareness for field workers collaborating with remote colleagues and AI systems, and to augment user interfaces with just-in-time information from humans or AI. The team also examines collaborative interaction techniques, such as conversational interaction, tailored for industrial settings. In addition, Tampere University is responsible for conducting all user evaluations throughout the project phases, ensuring that the solutions are grounded in human-centric design and real-world usability.
Link: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/high-performance-cognition
The HiPerCog group studies how people learn to perform highly-demanding dynamic cognitive tasks, using computational cognitive neuroscience methods.
Company website: www.cals.fi and www.c4.fi
The C4 AiWo project is an ambitious initiative aimed at integrating advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technologies with the Carina Assembly and Logistics System (CALS). The primary goal of this project is to develop innovative solutions that enhance material management for businesses and organizations, thereby improving their operational efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability. By leveraging AI, the project seeks to address key challenges in material identification, real-time reporting, and supply chain flexibility. The C4 AiWo project is structured into several work packages, each focusing on specific objectives such as improving user experience through AI-driven communication, developing advanced material definitions, and creating automated material content. Collaboration with industry partners, universities, and technology experts is a cornerstone of the project, ensuring that the solutions developed are cutting-edge and meet the specific needs of various industries. Ultimately, with the support of the C4 AiWo project Carinafour CALS aims to position itself as a leader in digital material management, driving innovation and competitiveness in the global market.
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Company website: https://edea.design/
Company website: https://www.konecranes.com/
Konecranes is a global leader in material handling solutions, serving a broad range of customers across multiple industries. Konecranes has three business areas in its organizational structure: Industrial Equipment, Port Solutions and Service. Industrial Equipment offers a variety of hoists, industrial cranes and warehouse automation. Port Solutions offers a full range of container handling equipment, equipment for handling cargo, shipyard handling equipment and heavy-duty lift trucks. In addition to this, with 600 service locations in 50 countries, Konecranes provides specialized maintenance services and spare parts for all types and makes of industrial cranes and hoists. In 2024, Group sales totalled EUR 4.2 billion. The Group has around 16,500 employees in 50 countries.
Konecranes contributes to the AiWO project consortium with: a) the industry knowledge and experience as a global leader in material handling solutions, and with b) the use case dedicated to AI-enabled visual part identification. As a use case provider, Konecranes aims to research the AI capabilities in spare part management and develop a POC capable of AI-enabled visual part identification. The key anticipated benefits for Konecranes from the AiWO project include: a) reduced manual work and faster quoting process, b) increased sales hit ratio and increased spare parts revenue, c) improved operational efficiency and new business potential to increase market share by servicing a wider range of equipment (e.g. competitor assets).
AiWo works with the KONE Renaissance program which aims to renew existing buildings by developing adaptable, digitalized and low-carbon solutions in collaboration with our ecosystem partners. More information about the KONE Renaissance program: KONE Renaissance ecosystem – KONE Corporation
Company website: https://www.kone.fi/
Link: https://lingsoft.ai/
Lingsoft is leading language intelligence company and the only 100% Finnish owned company among top 100 world’s largest language service providers. Their foundation is in academic research and AI has been at the core of our operations since 1986.
By combining human expertise with artificial intelligence they provide versatile and scalable language services and solutions. Lingsoft is a trusted partner for hundreds of clients in both the private and public sectors. They help customers to maximise their language capital – efficiently and effectively. Lingsoft is an active partner in many European and Finnish R&D projects. Lingsoft Group’s total turnover in 2024 was approx. 15 million euros.
Lingsoft’s role in the consortium is to contribute by developing new technology that supports multilingual interaction of industry maintenance and service professionals in the global context.
Company website: https://www.ponsse.com/
Ponsse offers leading modern harvesting solutions with the cut-to-length method for efficient and precise logging operations.
Company website: softability.fi — XReach project website: https://xreach.org/en/
Softability Oy is a Finnish technology company that has been developing software for R&D-focused industries since 2002. We work with leading manufacturing and healthcare companies such as KONE, ABB, and Thermo Fisher, supporting their R&D teams with expertise in application and embedded development, and quality assurance. With over two decades of experience in complex product development, our in-house XR Studio also delivers advanced augmented and mixed reality solutions for demanding industrial needs.
XReach is our main in-house solution, a remote support platform designed for industrial environments. It combines real-time video calls, live annotations, and a knowledge base to help technicians document, troubleshoot, and resolve issues quickly. XReach integrates with CRM and other service systems to enhance existing processes and reduce downtime in the field.
Softability’s role in the AiWo project is to provide the remote support process and supporting technologies for communication and collaboration. It also brings relevant data for training and will actively participate in the training and validation of the AI models. Additionally, it will further develop and customize existing remote support functionalities to meet use case requirements, including (but not limited to) integrating the AI technologies and techniques developed during the project.
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