About NICO project

The objective of NICO project is to enhance the national know-how and understanding within the area of Sustainable Manufacturing as well as to support Finnish companies in realising competitive and environment friendly products and production networks. Based on the identified requirements and best available practices of Competitive Sustainable Manufacturing (CSM) the research project will build higher level static analysis tools and simulation supported dynamic ICT tools for the design, implementation, measurement and development of CSM networks. The tools will be tested at TUT's case study environment and they will be used when developing the sustainable competitiveness of companies participating in the project.

Partners:

TUT, Department of Production Engineering
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA
Purdue University, USA
University of Texas San Antonio, USA
University of Kentucky, USA
University of Milan
University of Windsor, Canada
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya