digitization

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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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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