Industrial automation
PhD thesis committee for Teemu Tunkelo, entitled “Technology life cycles in a slow clockspeed industry: The case of Industrial automation”, defended at the University of Lausanne, under supervision of Prof. Ari-Pekka Hameri.
“This thesis examines the current state of industrial automation subject to the competition between the incumbents firstly through research on cost competitiveness efforts in captive outsourcing of engineering, research and development and secondly process re-engineering in the case of complex system global software support. Thirdly Teemu Tunkelo investigates the industry actors’, namely customers, incumbents and newcomers, views on the future direction of industrial automation.”
