This is my final editorial as Editor-in-Chief of Maintworld Magazine.

I visited the Ecomondo fair in Italy at the beginning of November. A huge event with some 100 000 visitors and 30 halls full of stuff from composters to one-family house-sized process lines.

Artificial intelligence is a real game changer, most probably also in maintenance. In this magazine, we start a series of articles on the use of AI, with the aim to bring concreteness to the scene.

Asset management was a hot topic at the Euromaintenance 2023 congress with several speakers focusing on the area. One of the speakers brought up the need to create asset management ecosystems. As an example, he mentioned the new decentralized forms of production on the energy side, where project developers can only play the role of financier or investor in projects.

The shift from reactive maintenance to preventive maintenance has been going on already for some decades.