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Juhani HEILALA (Male) is Senior Scientist, Senior Project Manager (IPMA C certified since 2010) at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. He has Msc.Tech from University of Oulu (1989). He has been developing industrial robots during studies at Nokia Robotics (1984-1989). He has over 25 years of professional experience from European research projects as national and local coordination at VTT. He has been Work Package (WP) leader in international projects; ConnectedFactories (2016-2019), EPES (2011-2015), Simter (2007-2009), Ami-MoSES (2008-2011), Eureka E-RACE (2003-2006), Assembly-NET (2001-2003) and Eureka Famos-HIPS (1994-1997). He has coordinated numerous national industrial driven research projects. He has authored and co-authored more than 100 technical and scientific publications. Currently he is Senior Research Scientist in Agile Intelligent Production Systems research team at VTT Cognitive Production Industry Research Area.
Expertise area
He has expertise in the field of smart, sustainable, modular and agile production system design; operations planning and management in customer driven manufacturing; integration of production system simulation and modelling with other analysis methods for decision support; resource efficient manufacturing, sustainability aspects and efficiency analysis; and use of ICT in manufacturing, digitization of manufacturing processes.
Research interests
Agile intelligent production systems. Current research activities are focusing on digitalization of manufacturing in smart and sustainable connected factories. Beyond Industry 4.0.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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ResilReagNets: Creating Resilience and Reactability into Manufacturing Networks by Utilising Modelling, Simulation and Data Analysing Tools
Salmi, T. (Manager), Montonen, J. (Participant), Heilala, J. (Participant), Hentula, M. (Participant), Jurvansuu, M. (Participant), Räsänen, P. (Participant), Simons, M. (Participant) & Lämsä, A. (Participant)
1/01/24 → 31/12/25
Project: Business Finland project
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SUGAR: Sustainable Grinding with Agile Robotics
Siren, M. (Manager), Salmi, T. (Participant), Simons, M. (Participant), Heilala, J. (Participant), Pulkkinen, A. (Participant), Salo, M. (Participant) & Harju, N. (Participant)
1/10/23 → 30/09/26
Project: Business Finland project
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ConnectedFactories 2: Global-leading smart manufacturing through digital platforms, cross-cutting technologies and skilled workforce
Granholm, G. (Manager), Järnefelt, V. (Participant), Valkokari, K. (Participant), Virkkunen, R. (Manager), Saari, L. (Participant) & Heilala, J. (Participant)
1/12/19 → 30/11/22
Project: EU project
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HACI: Hyper Agile Cognitive Industry
Saari, L. (Participant), Heilala, J. (Manager), Kuusisto, O. (Participant) & Häikiö, J. (Participant)
1/01/19 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
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ConnectedFactories: Industrial scenarios for connected factories
Granholm, G. (Participant), Heilala, J. (Participant), Ventä, O. (Participant) & Ruutu, S. (Participant)
1/09/16 → 31/08/19
Project: EU project
Research output
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A Review of Modelling Methods for Manufacturing as a Service – Case Additive Manufacturing
Pulkkinen, A. (Corresponding author), Nagarajan, H. P. N. & Heilala, J., 9 Apr 2024, Moving Integrated Product Development to Service Clouds in the Global Economy: Proceedings of the 21st ISPE Inc. International Conference on Concurrent Engineering, CE 2014. Andersson, J., Joshi, S., Malmskold, L. & Hanning, F. (eds.). IOS Press, p. 313-324 12 p. (Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering, Vol. 52).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review
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Building the maturity model for a sustainable collaborative manufacturing industry
Saari, L. (Corresponding author), Heilala, J. & Kääriäinen, J., 11 May 2022, Proceedings of the XXXIII ISPIM Innovation Conference "Innovating in a Digital World". Lappeenranta University of Technology, (LUT Scientific and Expertise Publications: Research Reports).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific
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Digital product passport promotes sustainable manufacturing: whitepaper
Saari, L., Heilala, J., Heikkilä, T., Kääriäinen, J., Pulkkinen, A. & Rantala, T., 22 Sept 2022, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. 43 p. (VTT White Paper, Vol. 2022).Research output: Book/Report › Report
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Modeling and Simulation for Decision Making in Sustainable and Resilient Assembly System Selection
Heilala, J., 31 Mar 2022, SIMS EUROSIM 2021 conference proceedings. Linköping University Electronic Press, 9 p. (Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review
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Sustainable Industry X: Suomalaisen teollisuuden uudistumisagenda
Paasi, J., Nieminen, H., Salminen, K., Apilo, T., Heilala, J. & Virkkunen, R., 2022, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. 35 p. (VTT Technology; No. 410).Research output: Book/Report › Report
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