Automation keeps manufacturing alive! - Fastems
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Faster, more efficient, more flexible, more customer-oriented, less harmful to the environment<br />
Manufacturing industry experts<br />
convene in Tampere<br />
how to Become a gloBal<br />
marKet leader<br />
Mikko Leino, the Director of Manufacturing<br />
Technology Services at Nokia Corporation,<br />
gave a speech on the first day of the conference.<br />
He described the technology and production<br />
strategies that Nokia uses to manage<br />
the <strong>manufacturing</strong> of customized products<br />
and their delivery chain on a global market.<br />
Leino described the immense proportions<br />
of Nokia’s <strong>manufacturing</strong> apparatus:<br />
20 | 1 • 2007<br />
“Nokia’s products are used by 850 million<br />
people daily, and 11 devices are produced<br />
every second – for a total of almost a million<br />
devices every day. Almost 400 components<br />
need to be produced for each device.”<br />
Two preconditions to becoming a global<br />
market leader are – an optimized global<br />
delivery chain, and subcontractors that are<br />
tightly integrated into the <strong>manufacturing</strong><br />
process. Customer-oriented variation is of<br />
utmost importance for Nokia’s products, and<br />
TAMPERE WAs oNcE AgAIN ThE<br />
hosT FoR A sIgNIFIcANT EuRoPEAN<br />
MANuFAcTuRINg INDusTRy EvENT. ThE<br />
TAMPERE MANuFAcTuRINg suMMIT<br />
2007 WAs hELD AT ThE TAMPERE<br />
uNIvERsITy oF TEchNoLogy oN 6-7<br />
juNE 2007. ThE sEMINAR gAThERED<br />
TogEThER 200 REPREsENTATIvEs<br />
FRoM MANuFAcTuRINg INDusTRy<br />
coMPANIEs AND AcADEMIA<br />
To DIscuss ThE DEvELoPMENT<br />
oF INvENTIvENEss AND ThE<br />
FuTuRE coMPETITIvENEss oF ThE<br />
MANuFAcTuRINg INDusTRy.<br />
Vice President Massimo Mattucci,<br />
Comau S.p.A.<br />
it is important to be able to implement the<br />
variations as late as possible.<br />
choosing the right direction<br />
for the future<br />
Massimo Mattucci, the Executive Vice President<br />
of the Italian company, Comau S.p.A,<br />
remarked that the challenges Nokia is facing<br />
are common to the entire <strong>manufacturing</strong><br />
industry. It is important to quickly react to<br />
the customer’s needs, to be close to the cus-
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