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.

Finding the right maintenance instruction can take a significant share of an aircraft technician’s time.

The investment is part of a wider effort to modernise Metso’s service centre network across South America.