Finnish Advanced Manufacturing Network (FAMN)

Overview

  Finnish Advanced Manufacturing Network (FAMN)  is a non-profit industrial alliance improving the global competitiveness of Finnish industrial companies and accelerating their sustainable renewal and digitalisation.​ FAMN is business-driven open innovation ecosystem for Finnish manufacturing and ICT companies in the way towards a new era of networked, data driven systems.​​ In co-operation with Technology Industries of Finland. The Finnish Advanced Manufacturing Network (FAMN) is a company-led open ecosystem for Finnish manufacturing and ICT companies aiming to improve the global competitiveness of industrial companies and accelerating their sustainable renewal and digitalisation. In FAMN, the member companies are at the drivers seat and work together to set focus areas. All partners have a management board seat and can propose and and participate in co-creation initiatives such as RD&I projects, infra initiatives, training etc. FAMN also collaborates closely with research institutions on project basis. The ecosystem launches new R&D&I projects for the industry network, innovators, and ICT start-ups and opens the ecosystem activities to larger network. The ecosystem has influence on the global discussion regarding rules and regulations as well as plans strategic roadmaps and industrial standards.  FAMN helps companies to develop their competitiveness with regards to data sharing, platforms, digital twins as well as to autonomous business products and services. The Ecosystem provides support to their customers with experimenting new digital innovations. The ecosystem collects and coordinates training and R&D&I initiatives and supports relevant activities to take place. The ecosystem also brands the development work and acts as active communicator towards national funding agencies as well as strengthens visibility internationally. The ecosystem helps also SMEs with matchmaking, giving opportunity to participate in programs and other activities (e.g.  Data accelerator for SMEs, Demobooster, FIIF, Machine Learning Academy, Demola etc.) The FAMN activities have been for example; Mutual strategy work, launch of two competence development academies (Machine learning and New Business models academies), data accelerator for SMEs, roadmap work, conference and speeches, projects and workshops in the field of industrial data sharing and sustanaible manufacturing.       Digital technologies.