On Thursday, 20 October this year’s Scanautomatic – the industry’s most important meeting place for automation and digitalisation – came to a close. After a four-year hiatus, the need for, and interest in, the event was evident. Scanautomatic is the meeting place devoted to the future of automation and digitalisation. Industry, academia and policymakers come together under one roof to create t...

Never before has it been so important for the entire industry to join forces to enable the energy transition by applying existing technologies. Not only does the transition require the development of tomorrow’s technologies, but it also highlights the importance of applying those that already exist. “Mission to Zero” is the name of ABB’s programme to work towards climate neutrality in building...

A collaboration between Roslagsvatten, Schneider Electric, AFRY and AVEVA Select Scandinavia is making the intelligent water system of the future possible. The project is part of Roslagsvatten’s journey towards its Roslagsvatten 2.0 vision, which is about using digitalisation to meet the challenges we face and create a smarter and more sustainable society. Daniel Ljungqvist has been working wi...

On 19 October at 14.15, Ignite will take the stage at Scanautomatic, together with four industrial startups. They will focus on HOW to best enable and implement innovative solutions and collaborations in their business. - We have a very exciting startup scene in Sweden. These are innovators who have really sharp solutions for industrial automation and digitalisation. Meeting companies like the ...

The Microfactories project is shaking up the Swedish textile industry through increased automation and digitalisation. It’s about making the value chain more sustainable and circular with the help of robots and blockchain technology, but also getting us, as customers, to start investing in clothes instead of just consuming them. Every year, Swedes throw away an average of six kilos of clothes a...

Right now, Northvolt is working to create the world’s greenest lithium-ion battery, which is a crucial part of the goal to electrify both industry and the vehicle fleet. With new processes and technologies come new needs, and in this case the skills supply is one of them. Something Northvolt will be talking about at this year’s Scanautomatic. Emelie Adenlöf works at Northvolt as a project manag...

A residual product that is often wasted in electricity-intensive industries is low- and medium-grade heat. Energy that is simply not used. Until now. WA3RM develops and finances projects that make use of this surplus heat. WA3RM’s solution is to buy residual heat from large, electricity-intensive industries to develop and finance bio-based operations on an industrial scale. And from the heat, ...

One aspect of industry’s transition is that there are greater demands on industrial communications, while the need for flexibility is growing every day. IFM, together with Ericsson, is now collaborating to offer adaptive wireless industrial communications using 5G. Gary Troberg of IFM and Micael Hermansson of Ericsson join Scanautomatic on stage to talk about the companies’ joint work. Gary Tro...

Digitalisation creates new opportunities for more sustainable and inclusive production. This is the view of Johan Bengtsson at the Gothenburg Institute of Technology, who wants to spread knowledge about the opportunities offered by new technology – not least to strengthen the competitiveness of Swedish industry. As Technology Development Manager at Gothenburg Technical College, Johan Bengtsson ...