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The Five Key Factors for a Successful Maintenance Shutdown

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Blog series: The challenges of maintenance shutdown management | Part 5/5 In this blog series, we have discussed the most common challenges associated with maintenance shutdowns: schedule overruns, breakdowns in communication, ensuring safety, and the true costs of poor management. However, successful maintenance shutdowns do not happen by chance. They are based on careful planning, smooth collaboration and shared working practices. Modern digital tools support this work by providing a real-time overview of the situation, facilitating collaboration and generating information for continuous […]

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SolidComp and Fincet's collaboration launches a new visual tool for industrial shutdown management

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SolidComp and Fincet have begun a collaboration to create an industrial shutdown management solution that combines the features of both companies' flagship products. By integrating Tool4pro's maintenance shutdown management into Reality Twin's 3D environment, the new product brings shutdown tasks, schedules, and information into the real context of the plant, reducing downtime and maintenance costs, and creating measurable value for the process industry. SolidComp, which specialises in industrial digital twin solutions, and software company Fincet Oy, which offers Tool4pro, have agreed on a new joint solution […]

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How will everyday life in industry be made easier in 2026?

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Industry is experiencing a transformation where work is not decreasing, even though resources are decreasing. In recent years, many factories have had to make difficult decisions regarding personnel, while production requirements, schedule pressures and the number of technologies have increased. This equation is directly reflected in everyday life: in the rush, the workload and how work is managed. In 2026, industry will not need more systems for the sake of systems. It will need […]

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Nordkalk Lappeenranta digitalizes maintenance shutdowns – from manual lists to mobile control

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The client company Nordkalk is Northern Europe’s leading limestone supplier, founded in 1898. The head office is located in Pargas and there are operations in 14 locations in Finland. Nordkalk’s lime nourishes the soil where our food grows, it purifies the water we drink and the air we breathe. It is also essential for several industrial processes, such as steel and paper production. Nordkalk is constantly developing its operations to be more responsible, more efficient […]

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

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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?

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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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