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21 February / 2024

Maintenance 5.0: AI revolutionises maintenance work

Industry is undergoing a transformation to Industry 5.0, and maintenance work must follow suit. Professor Ramin Karim at Luleå University of Technology sees AI as a key factor in this shift, with the potential to automate, forecast and optimise maintenance processes. - We’re now seeing a clear shift from AI for decision support to AI for decision making. With better fact-based analyses, we can ...
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21 February / 2024

LKAB paves the way for the future of mining

LKAB has been a pillar of Swedish industry since 1890. The company is now undergoing a digital transformation journey, on which new standards are being defined. Not only for technical management, but also in terms of core issues such as maintenance, safety and effective teamwork. In her role as Strategic Maintenance Manager at LKAB, Maria Ryytty is ultimately responsible for creating the condit...
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10 February / 2024

“It is imperative to make sustainability a non-negotiable aspect in the development and implementation of technologies”

Hello, Mélanie Despeisse, Associate Professor in Sustainable Digitalized Production at Chalmers University of Technology, and speaker at the Additive Intelligence 4.0 conference in March. You are part of a panel discussion on the topic: “Additive manufacturing contributes to sustainability - myth or reality?” How will you tackle the subject? "I will talk about how additive manufacturing coul...
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10 February / 2024

The Swedish Maintenance Fair’s new initiative: test sustainable production hands-on!

Visitors to the 2024 edition of Underhållsmässan will experience a completely new concept. The Sustainability Circle think tank, one of the fair’s partners, is organising a live programme on sustainable production and invites visitors to try out activities at its interactive stand. - We want to make it as real as possible, says Henric Widén, CEO. The Sustainability Circle has around 50 membe...
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23 January / 2024

The Swedish Transport Administration: “We can be much better with a digital approach”

The transport system faces major challenges: the overall maintenance backlog is growing, accelerated by increased traffic and climate change. - We have recently seen several examples of how this has le...
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10 January / 2024

Volvo Cars integrates additive manufacturing in the maintenance chain

Volvo Cars is actively working to create more sustainable solutions. Now they are exploring additive manufacturing (AM) and integrating it as a significant part of the maintenance process. Additive manufacturing, more commonly known as 3D printing, creates opportunities for a decentralised manufacturing process and electronic inventory systems. Products can now be manufactured on demand, which ...
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10 January / 2024

The critical thinking behind Fortum’s success: “Don’t maintain everything!”

A whole new approach to maintenance is behind this astonishing journey: - In a couple of years we have gone from firefighting to effective preventive maintenance, says Anders Sandberg, who is responsible for maintenance development and investments at Fortum Recycling & Waste. At the Maintenance Strategy conference in March, he will explain how it was done. Taking place on 12-15 March at t...
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18 December / 2023

Billerud focuses on the green transition

Billerud is visiting Underhållsmässan 2024, the Swedish Maintenance Fair, and hopes to have rewarding meetings and exchanges of knowledge with industry colleagues, generating innovative solutions for the industry’s future challenges. - The great value for us is the networking that the Maintenance Fair offers. It is a broad spectrum from small to large companies and spans many industries with a ...
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18 December / 2023

Plantvision to broadcast the Beyond Tomorrow podcast live from Underhållsmässan

“There are episodes for everyone no matter what level you are at in maintenance.” In collaboration with the Swedish Maintenance Fair and Plantvision, the Beyond Tomorrow podcast will broadcast live on all four days of the fair, with exciting content on topics such as predictive maintenance, plant documentation, digital twins and AI, to name a few. Experts will take maintenance to new heights. You...
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22 November / 2023

Maintenance in the battery industry – an industrial revolution

With battery production becoming the next major Swedish industry, doors are opening to challenges and opportunities. The new establishments require expertise and, not least, a maintenance strategy. Jon Bokrantz, a researcher at Chalmers University, says that the latter is a key function because the factories must never stand still. With support from Sweden’s innovation agency Vinnova and indust...
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22 November / 2023

The Bridge between Vatten 2023 and Underhållsmässan 2024

The maintenance backlog in water and wastewater was the big topic at Vatten2023 and hence we are taking the issue further with the water industry at Underhållsmässan on 12-15 March 2024, when the maintenance specialists will be there as suppliers, academics and contractors. On 24-26 October, Vatten2023 took place at the Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre. Politicians, civil servants, entr...
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23 October / 2023

Daniel Gustavsson, Volvo Cars: “Looking forward to the Swedish Maintenance Fair”

Volvo Cars is getting involved in Underhållsmässan, the 2024 Maintenance Fair, and highlighting the needs it sees. -The fair means a lot to our entire team. Above all, we’re looking forward to a learning event, relevant for everyone who works with maintenance," says Daniel Gustavsson, maintenance manager at Volvo Cars. Underhållsmässan 2024, which takes place from 12 to 15 March at the Swedish...
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