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How do you use digital tools to save on maintenance costs during industrial maintenance downtime?

Management of industrial maintenance costs is one key factor in ensuring the profitability of production facilities. Traditionally, maintenance costs are optimized through the relationship between corrective and preventive maintenance, where maintenance systems are utilized. With modern digital tools, it is possible to achieve significant additional savings, especially during maintenance downtime. Maintenance shutdowns often result in high costs, because advance maintenance and repairs have to be carried out. Optimizing what external contractors do is crucial, as all [...]

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How do digital tools help move towards a more sustainable future? Read about 3 possible solutions.

The sustainable development target program set by the UN aims to eliminate extreme poverty and sustainable development, which takes the environment, economy and people into equal consideration. Goal number 9 is to build sustainable infrastructure and promote sustainable industry and innovation. By 2030, the goal is to renew industry and infrastructure in accordance with sustainable development, to increase the use of resources and to increase the use of clean and environmentally friendly technologies and

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Why development is important, when the economy declines?

Usually, in a downturn, companies start to adjust operations, which unfortunately also involves personnel cuts. In this situation, the amount of work does not necessarily decrease, but tasks are divided among the personnel and some are outsourced. The measure can paralyze the company's operations, because the transfer of tasks to own and external resources is not always completely uncomplicated. It is difficult for our own personnel to take on new tasks in the midst of their own busyness and workload. Outsourcing

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Did you know that poor communication often increases the risk of accidents? Read how the situation is corrected.

Zero accidents is everyone's goal in working life, and achieving it requires the commitment of all personnel to the goal, as well as processes and methods that support safety. In industrial maintenance downtimes and troubleshooting, the flow of information is one of the most significant factors in ensuring work safety - and it can be improved with modern methods. Repairs and maintenance work involve ensuring the safety of the site. Work may not be started under any circumstances, if safety

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No more accidents!

No more damage! The recent sad news in the media regarding work accidents made me think again about what we in Finnish industry and workplaces in general could do differently and better. In my own industrial career, which has already lasted more than thirty years, I myself have been a person in charge in organizations where serious work accidents have occurred. The worst and saddest accident in my working career happened in 1998, when I concretely got […]

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Would it be time to ask if what kind of tools office people (engineers, supervisors etc.) needs?

Industrial companies have a lot of great technology and services, but investing in methods and tools related to work often gets less attention. This can be seen especially with white-collar workers, because they too need tools that make work easier. When investing in digitization, it is customary to acquire a new system, but not all of its features are put into use, and the benefit and potential offered by the system remain partially unused. The officials, however

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A maintenance management system alone is not enough to manage maintenance shutdown – a solution is now available

The maintenance system is designed especially as a tool for the maintenance personnel of production facilities. It is an important tool for manufacturing plants, where it is used to plan and manage preventive and corrective maintenance. It is used to manage e.g. equipment registers of production facilities, spare parts, defect reports and work orders related to equipment. Traditionally, the maintenance department of production facilities manages its area of responsibility using a maintenance system, while production manages its own area of responsibility using other methods. Production personnel do not use the maintenance system,

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How to reduce downtime in Industrial maintenance shutdowns up to 20%?

Maintenance downtime of a production plant is a critical event in many respects. In many areas of the traditional process industry, maintenance shutdowns are planned very carefully in advance to minimize the duration of the production interruption. However, delays often occur during the implementation of the shutdown, one of the reasons for which is the lack of tools that would support the management of the shutdown work. . For example, in the paper industry, during one maintenance day, there can be up to more than 200 tasks performed by different parties, e.g. production

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Did you know that modern applications and remote task management solutions can reduce accidents?

In forest industry companies, the number of work accidents has decreased over the past 10 years, which is evident from the statistics of Metsäteollisuus ry. The goal is zero accidents. It is possible to achieve it by developing work processes and work methods. Achieving the desired target level is essentially influenced by the commitment and attitudes of the personnel. Did you know that modern applications and remote support solutions can have a significant impact on reducing accidents? The Tool4pro work management application developed by us can be used to develop and improve safety [...]

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It pays to develop the management of production problems in industrial sites

Many people working in industry are very familiar with various production-related problems. Every production plant has different problems from time to time, the solution of which takes a varying amount of time. A lot of money is lost in these in the long run. In order to solve the problems, meetings are held, where action plans are made and responsible persons are defined for the tasks. Tasks usually include various experiments and corrections in different areas. In this way, tasks often go beyond organizational boundaries and [...]

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