Metaverse has become a buzzword in the tech industry. Not a single day goes by without the media mentioning it, especially in the context of investments, start-ups, new platforms, and companies entering the world of digital engagement. There is a massive momentum towards an almost real 3D virtual world. Facebook even rebranded itself as Meta, which may be remembered as a red-letter moment in the evolution of the metaverse. 

With energy prices at an all-time high, it is now more important than ever for maintenance teams to focus on detecting compressed air leaks at their industrial facilities. As electricity prices keep going up, generating compressed air becomes more and more expensive – detecting and fixing leaks becomes now a priority.

Our modern world is in a phase of industrial metamorphosis. Novel solutions have been developed for circular economics and are urgently needed to help clean up the consequences of past negligence. Microbes are present everywhere, so why not make use of them as workhorses in biobased production? For more effective but softer solutions.

Many trends and perspectives impact how asset management strategies are formulated and implemented. My thesis, "Supporting strategic asset management in complex and uncertain decision contexts," explored this topic and won the EFNMS 2021 Ph.D. Award competition. Due to covid, the official award ceremony was postponed to the Euromaintenance conference that will be arranged in April 2023. Currently, the key topics of the thesis are increasingly crucial for organizations.

Take a deep breath. You assume the air is clean; it's the very breath of life and you will do it 20,000 times a day.

Industry 5.0 is the term for the next step in the evolution of industrial processes. Industry 4.0 is poised to eke out the maximum efficiency and productivity possible for industries. The next stage is to introduce a human element to the production, which was not at all a factor in any of the previous industrial epochs. 

Maintenance teams deal with a myriad of issues daily. Requests for repairs stream in from different departments or users of the facility. Organizations provide maintenance work requests to departments to ensure uniformity and consistency when reporting problems and raising alerts with maintenance teams. Work requests enable companies to plan and prioritize maintenance tasks. In return, maintenance managers can allocate work evenly so that technicians remain productive and improve maintenance turnaround time.