Engineering Rulez has finished with great results from Industrial and Research partners! The research project Engineering Rulez aimed to raise the level of automation and quality in plant engineering. Project partners were Pöyry, Fortum, Outotec, Fennovoima, Prosys, Masinotek, Semantum, EQUA, PSK and Aalto University.

During the recent years we have seen how production has shifted from Europe to the cheaper labour coutries, starting with basic manufacturing but expanded towards high value production. It has been argued that by keeping the level of automation high in production we can slow down the movement. Same is also true with the engineering activities. Many Finnish and European companies are leading brokers in global plant engineering projects for large investments. In order to keep this position we need to raise the level of automation and quality in our plant engineering.

A new version 1.21.0 of the Simantics platform has been released. This short interval release introduces a long waited feature:

Research project Computational Models in Product Life Cycle - Codes got funding in Tekes Digital Product Process research programme. This three year project started on February 1st, 2009.