Hacking and Innovation Webinar – practical findings from Konecranes hackathons

Konecranes’ recent IndustryHack events were about realizing concrete results from the welter of ideas. Now an upcoming webinar will get right to the heart of the most practical findings of the events, with the focus firmly on how these will impact Konecranes’ culture of innovation.

IndustryHack presented hackers with the toughest of challenges; the extraction of real customer value from the sometimes intangible world of the Industrial Internet. The 30 minute webinar will sum up the most intriguing concepts, some of which are already at the implementation stage.

Jari Pehkonen, Industrial Internet Service Development Manager, will be speaking at the webinar, explaining the forward-thinking impetus behind IndustryHack,

“The design work of cranes and their control systems has been driven to become more team work-orientated and the development process has become more agile. Each member of the team has a specific task, whether it’s system development, interface design or testing”.

According to Pehkonen, the teams at Konecranes consist of young talents and professionals with extensive experience.

“This has created team spirit and fostered a culture of team work in a new way, improving the quality of the systems created and leading to an environment of innovation, where employees with different backgrounds and experience level learn from each other. This culture also enables new and bold events such as the hackathons”.

Webinar will shed light on new ways of working

Andrew Quinn, Process and Training Owner, will also be speaking at the webinar, presenting real case studies from IndustryHack and explaining how the Industrial Internet can change the workplace for the better.

As Quinn says, “One of the big ideas was inspecting without inspection; a new way of gathering data from various machines and utilizing this, so that when our technicians actually go to site they already know what work needs to be carried out”.

This webinar will be a must for anyone interested in the pragmatic realization of the Industrial Internet and takes place on December 8, 2015 at 3PM (UTC +2h). Sign up here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4095891190657136385