Vaisalan tarinaKjell Forsén, toimitusjohtajaTieteen Vaikuttavuus seminaari 11.3 2010

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Environmental phenomena

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The customer need

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Vilho Väisälä

The founder of the Vaisala GroupDr. Vilho Väisälä 1889 - 1969

Practicing meteorologist and Professor of meteorology

Scientist – innovator with application understanding

Received university degree and doctorate in mathematics

Produced over one hundred scientific papers and ten patented inventions

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State of the art in the late 1920s

How to measure the upper atmosphere? Manned hot air balloons Kites and balloons Self recording instruments retrieved

Images courtesy of NOAA

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Disruption in 1936use of radio – RS11 radiosonde

First delivery was to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gold Medal at 1937 World Fair, Paris.Company Mittari Oy established in the basement of

Professor Vilho Väisälä's apartment building.

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Vaisala’s value creation has come from innovations for environmental observations

Vaisala innovation Automatic

weather station

Accelera-tion (VTI)Pressure

CO2

Industrial measurements

Upper air soundings

Surface weather observationsApplications

Vaisala technology evolution

Microelectronics

1979 Microsensors

1995

Optical sensing

GPS

2004

xx

xxx

RS92

Integrated weather station

Sensor integration

1936

1973

Radio

1976

Thinfilm First mover

200x

1984

Relative humidity

measurement

Upper air sounding

RS80New technology

enablers

201x

Dual pol.WR

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Values Customer focus

– focus on what matters to the customer Science based innovation

– systematic approach, good theoretical knowledge, creativity, quality

Goal orientation– setting and committing to ambitious goals

Personal growth– possibility to learn and grow up to personal limits

Focus on greater good– emphasis on group benefit and mutual

cooperation Fair play

– honesty, confidence, integrity

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Research and development Research and development activities are

a key prerequisite for the success of the Vaisala Group.

Strategic Research also in-house R&D expenditure in 2009 increased to

12.4% of net sales In addition to internal research activities

Vaisala – partners with leading research

organization – supports meteorological programs and

studies– supports student research internships and

fellowships

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R & D Partnerships

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Vaisala and NOAA have a long-standing cooperative

research and development program for transferring and enhancing wind profiler technology and applications

Wind profiler R&D National Center for Atmospheric Research NCAR

COSMIC program – a new satellite program to measure atmospheric profiles

Dropsonde R&D University of Oklahoma

designing and implementing improved mesoscale observing and forecasting systems

University of Arizona Lightning Detection R&D

University of Colorado Weather Radar algorithms and SW

Helsingin Yliopisto, Stanford, MIT, University of Hawaii etc.

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