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Is the digitalization of industry fast enough?

I stopped for a moment to think about communication technology, mobile technology and how significantly they have changed my everyday life at home, but especially in my work in the process industry. I start this story from the beginning of my studies in 1994. At that time, the use of e-mail on Unix machines was quite new. In 1996, at my summer job at a paper factory, foremen primarily used pagers and landlines to communicate information. E-mail already existed, but it was still not used much for information

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Industrial maintenance - what is a maintenance shutdown and what makes planning it challenging?

In an industrial maintenance shutdown, the plant must be shut down for maintenance and upkeep, because the equipment cannot be serviced while it is running. During a maintenance shutdown, as much preventive maintenance, maintenance and required repairs as possible are carried out, so that production can run smoothly after the shutdown ends. Maintenance downtime is a challenging event, so careful planning is essential. During the event, a lot of work is done in a limited time by several different parties [...]

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