In pharmaceutical manufacturing, where every deviation can have direct consequences for patient safety and product quality, maintenance is not simply a technical discipline. It is a core pillar of the entire production system.

Spare parts management has long lived in the shadow of production planning, maintenance strategy, and procurement optimisation. But that is changing quickly.

In March 2023, Stena Recycling opened a state-of-the-art battery recycling facility in Halmstad, a small city on Sweden’s west coast. Now the real work began for the company’s maintenance staff. How do you conduct maintenance in a brand-new industry?

Ask any asset manager or reliability engineer about the biggest hurdle in developing effective asset integrity management programmes, and the honest answer is rarely a shortage of standards or software.