Weeks 16 and 17

Hello!

Yesterday our group has participated in the Capstone Showroom, which was the final project presentation. After that we had the penultimate PO meeting. We got great feedback so we can work on our final presentation for EOS employees. On Monday we will present our finding to them. The report is ready, but still we need to contact potential customers and other AM companies to get to know their point of view to our findings and think about future cooperation. 

It is most probably the last post, because the project is almost ended. Thank you for your support! It was a great year. We have learned a lot about additive manufacturing, different methods, market and hope that with our finding EOS will develop. 

THANK YOU! :) 

Week 15 outcome

This week is the last week of our team work. We have almost finished our project. Valtter is still trying to reach thesis and connected with AM surveys authors and Trung is putting all parts of our report together to create the final product - a PDF file that we will share with EOS. The task list is presented hereunder. 

Furthermore, during this week we are going to meet our PO and get the final feedback. We cannot wait for sharing our finding with involved EOS employees. For that purpose a presentation will be held which main points are: survey, ranking and promoting plan. 

One of the most interesting aspect are survey answers to questions about popularity of EOS and additive manufacturing. What is unexpected about is that AM is acknowledged and a lot of companies see business opportunities in it. The problem seems to be EOS recognizability. 

Next Tuesday ICT Showroom will take place. It is a great opportunity to broaden participants knowledge about additive manufacturing and promote EOS. Furthermore, we are going to hold a pitch in front of judges. You can take a look at our poster:)) 

It is probably one of our lasts posts. Thank you for being with us for the whole time. We hope that with time more and more companies will envolve students in project work on finding innovative solutions and creating a better future. 

Weeks 13 & 14 outcome

Hello!

During this and the previous week our group has progressed significantly. On Thursday we are going to meet with the PO and on 17.04 the final meeting will take place. Lately, we have closed the survey task - 20 responses were achieved. In addition, we are waiting for our PO to get some instructions how to reach survey respondents that were asking EOS to contact them. Kalle and Trung are now supposed to do a summary containing all the obtained answers. Use case and news tasks are ready. We are still waiting for Valtter to end  his promoting idea. He should have also contacted the survey authors and thesis autor. Also Krishna has to end his task about EOS competitors advantages. From the current schedule final presentation for the company and the poster will be available soon. Furthermore, hopefully the report is going to be finalized by gluing all of parts done to the final form tomorrow. 

Its our final stretch!

Weeks 11-12 outcome

Hello,

We are glad to see that our team almost achieved all objectives. During 12. week we had a meeting with the Project Owner Paula, who gave us a great feedback and proposed some ideas how to dip into current tasks.  

This Friday we want to be able to cross out left current tasks and to start working on newassignments next week. Till today we got 6 responses from 100 mails sent of the survey, but our goal is to have 20 of them. Furthermore, we set up a final meeting with Paula on 17.4, so we need to buck up and do our best during this last month of work.

You can check our plans hereunder.

Have a great productive week!

Current tasks to do:

New tasks list: 

ICT Showroom

ICT SHOWROOM event

Unfortunately, our group did not participate in the ICT Showroom as an exhibitor. Every team worked so well. They have introduced their job and showed the participants how to use their products. We  (and probably the others that came to the event in such a huge amount) have really enjoyed this event. It is a great opportunity to see that the Innovation Project course has a visible outcome which will be used in the future by a company. 

Outcome from weeks 7-9

During weeks 7-9 we were and still are trying to end our current and past tasks. For week 9 our team is supposed to evolve one idea per each group member to create a promoting plan for our customer - EOS. During 8. week we have started "Use case" assignment. The aim is to get more familiar with competitors and help to find the best solution for a customer whose needs we know. Afterwards, we are going to work on our one of the last but not least tasks - News about metal 3D printing. One of the most demanding undertaking that we are trying to mostly focus on is the survey and Finland versus Sweden comparison analysis. Furthermore, during these weeks we had two significant and rich in feedback PO meetings.

"Week nine started with PO meeting and on next day we upgraded the to do -list. We didn't have special agenda for the meeting, we just needed feedback from our work to ensure we are going to right direction.  We didn't get new tasks, but we got good information for what we should do better and what we can do more. Some tasks are ready and some need more work and wider research. Direction is good and we have energy to do our best for rest of the spring in both project and another studies." says Kalle.

Pitching speech

We are glad to present you.... out PITCHING SPEECH. Enjoy:)

Main outcome of the week 6

Hello!

For the 6. week our group was supposed to do:

- different additive manufacturing survey analysis (Kasia),

what would help to create a new survey, give some ideas

- make the first draw of the survey and contact the PO to get feedback and later start sending it to potential customers (Kalle and Trung are the responsible persons for this task),

we want to contact potential customers and hopefully further cooperate with them

- name the pros and cons of additive manufacturing (Valtter and Krishna)

- create an e-mail base of the industry companies that we will send the survey to.

Kasia, Trung and Kalle did their job very well!

Furthermore, this week we are going to upload the pitching video. There is also one indiviual task. Each person should answer the survey and give feedback about the course.

For the next week we are planning to make Finland versus Sweden additive manufacturing companies comparision (Trung and Krishna will work together), name the disadventages and adventages of EOS by making SWOT and other analysis (Kasia) and end the calculated business case\proposing customers task (Valtter and Kalle).

Taking a look back- outcome of week 3 and 4

Hello!

Let´s take a look back on tasks done during weeks 3 and 4...

In the 3. week we were supposed to do the first task - ''World wide additive manufacturing companies comparison''. Each person have found 5 companies and described them in the provided by Krishna KC template. Krishna and Trung made the principle and conclusion for this task. The main aim is to find the companies which are involved in metal 3D printing and to compare their offers and services to EOS. We believe that it will help us in naming pros and cons of EOS by comparing the final outcome and later we will take a further step to look more closely from the world to the Europe and again from the Europe to the Sweden being the most familiar country. We have also started the ''Finnish industry mapping'' assignment for the next week. Kalle and Trung did the template and Kasia and Kalle did the principle and conclusion. What was it about? Each person needed to find either additive manufacturing comapnies or potential Finnish customers for EOS. Furthermore, we made SWOT analysis. Aim of this analysis is not only to compare EOS to the competitors highlighting the differences but also to find new potential partners and of course to get to know potential customers for EOS. In one of the next steps we are going to select some of the companies and analyse them further to gain more knowledge about the cooperation advantages. For the next week we have planned to start finding potential cluster members and describe them. Kasia made the template and Valtter did the principle and conclusion. All cluster members are not necessarily AM service providers but some of them are promoting additive manufacturing solutions or providing trainings. We are going to look up few members and analyze them. We are going to suggest potential common activities and answer the question: Why EOS should cooperate with them?.

Week 5 - team outcome

Hello everyone,

In this post we will tell you about our currently tasks. During 5. week our group has finally finished task 1. Task 2 - Finnish industry mapping is still under editing. This week "Cluster potential members" - task 3 and task 4 - "Customer search" should be started. Next week we are going to create a survey, do an e-mail base of potential customers, find pros and cons of additive manufacturing and analyse other surveys. Furthermore, we are going to have a meeting with PO to get to know her opinion about the survey and our current tasks. A pitching video must be done till the end of week 6 and posted on our blog. Are you curious? We will upload it soon! :) 

Week 4 outcome - Krishna K C

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Week 4 outcome - Valtter Väliheikki

Hey everybody who is reading this.

Spring is slowly coming and we are moving towards summer. This project also moving forward. During this week our group starts to find some additive manufacturing companies in Finland. Also possibly find potential cluster members. Main point is to figure out customers for EOS and get successful business case.

Kalle and me are going to contact EOS regarding to our focus. Is there any primary industrial sector EOS wants us to focus. First place we are going to contact is Technology Industries of Finland in Southwest Finland.

Week 4 outcome - Kalle Laato

Hey everyone!

Spring semester has started well.

During the week four our team members will do research of the competitors of EOS in Finland and my job is summarize the results. We are also doing research of the potential customers which we will later introduce to EOS.

Me and Valtter have a task to find potential customers to our final business case. EOS will define which industrial sector they want us to focus on and our job is to contact them. Before contacting the potential customers we will need marketing material and a plan how to approach them.

We are interested in sharing our ideas to EOS and get ideas from them!  We hope that we get to arrange meeting with PO very soon so we get our mission forward.