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First I would like to tell you about myself and from what perspective I write this article. My world is process industries such as Iron, Steel, Pulp, Power and Wood based industries such as Oriented Strand Board (OSB), Medium Density Fiber (MDF), Chemical, Oil and Gas, Food and Beverage etc. In short all industries where a break down of critical equipment assets results in risk for environmental damage, personal injury, lost quality and volume in throughput or high costs for maintenance. I lose some of my important arguments if reliability is not important because then the maintenance organization has no “revenue”. If reliability is not important, the sense of urgency and importance in the work we do as a maintenance organization is not there.
24.5.2023
Jaakko Tennilä
Executive Director, Finnish maintenance society, Promaint
Editor-in-Chief, Maintworld magazine
19.4.2023
Jaakko Tennilä
Executive Director, Finnish maintenance society, Promaint
Editor-in-Chief, Maintworld magazine
8.11.2022
Bryan Christiansen
The CEO of Limble CMMS.
21.6.2022
Ilkka Palsola
Promaint - Finnish Maintenance Society
EFNMS Certification Committee Chairman
On average, 30% of energy in industrial compressed air systems is wasted due to leaks. This not only causes unnecessary energy waste, but also contributes to a lower plant operational reliability. Therefore, improving energy efficiency in compressed air systems is an important issue in all areas of manufacturing and process technology, as compressed air is one of the most expensive energy resources.
The Finnish technology industry estimates that it will need in the coming ten years around 130,000 new professionals.
It is actually quite simple to achieve good cleaning quality. After all, if the cleaning method deployed succeeds in pulverising the organic contamination to only a few percent of the original amount and that in the form of easily removable dust, achieving high cleaning quality is child's play. While this all sounds very simple, is it also achievable in practice?
To be able to respond to current developments and trends in society, it is of vital importance for organizations to focus on the sustainable employability of assets.
The year is 2020. Billions of people across the globe sit in lockdown as scientists desperately try to find a cure to the pandemic that has brought the world to a standstill. And sustainability – until the pandemic hit, the defining megatrend of our time – is largely pushed out of the headlines. Flights are grounded. Manufacturers shutter their factories. Daily commutes and school runs stop dead, almost overnight. And methane emissions continue to rise.
The carbon footprint of SPINNOVA textile fibre is already 72 percent lower than that of conventionally produced cotton. With the AmbiHeat heat pump plant and an energy ecosystem, each produced kilogram of textile fibre reduces overall CO2 emissions.
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.
