At the Stena Industry Innovation Lab we try to be the playground
for manufacturing industry and consultants and ICT and the academia.
A place where they can test things, where you can experiment,
without having the pressure of commercialising this on Monday.
The sort of the task for academia is to be the basis, to form the knowledge
and to understand what's going on.
And that can also help industries to innovate.
Chalmers as a university is very closely related to the all the automotive industries
around here, of course. West Sweden is really dependent on its automotive industry.
We also work a lot with education, training students
that will be employed in the automotive industry.
Right now, there is a huge change going on in the west coast of Sweden
where the electrification is changing the circumstances and the possibilities
for the automotive industry to compete in the future.
We really, really would like to help as much as we can in this.
And we are helping in the sense that we are creating
the laboratory and experimental facilities
for battery production, not only the production of batteries,
but also, where do you want to have the batteries after they are produced?
Well, you need to put them in the cars
and the way you put them into cars and assemble them
is quite a new manufacturing process.
It's ergonomically problematic, it has safety issues.
It is difficult with the present equipments.
We want to use robots, collaborative robots
where people and robots work together to achieve the best possible results
without harming the product, the car, or the person that is working with it.
First of all, Cognizant can help you to build a strategy
which is more outcome focus.
And, followed that, we can help you
to orchestrate the different solution components.
be it related to data, IoT, analytics
and finally we can help you to realise your benefit by leveraging our experience
delivering the success, like our customers worldwide.
On the purpose of the electrification of automotive industry,
I would say it's a no-brainer. The last check report that was recently published
really urges us with innovations to decarbonise our cities, our industry,
and also the mobility.
But on the progress, I would say that instead of talking about car electrification,
I would better talk about decarbonisation of mobility.
It's not only about EV cars, it's really about all type of mass transportation,
a new infrastructure that need to be developed, in the cities, at government level.
But with that, it's also for all of us citizens a change in our behaviour.
Not only think cars for mobility, and EV
but also think about soft mobility, including e-bikes.
So a lot of things will happen in the future, including also for most more years,
the Euro 7 norms for internal combustion engines.
And with all of that, we will finally manage to reduce the CO2 emissions on mobility.
Secure the sustainability supply chain and the processes around batteries,
is really a hot topic today.
In addition of what we see, there is now the scarce supply of raw materials,
making this even more challenging.
But we see battery makers really walking hands in hands
with EV carmakers and with the miners and refiners,
to really build up this supply chain from downstream to upstream,
and that include also the retrieved materials,
so Rockwell Automation is very much engaged in this effort, and it's just a start.
As we see also, the European Commission is releasing the new battery directives.
This is coming with the battery passport,
inviting us to track and trace from the mines, to the battery to the EV, the raw materials.
And that's not an easy task to accomplish in terms of a digital platform in the cloud,
but we think that with many different partners, we can manage that.
We have a role to play in this transformation to make these norms really practical,
and paperless and usable in the field.
So I think Nordic countries are showing us a way, in terms of adoption of EV,
but also construction of battery plants that are competitive on the market,
powered with green energy, and also with recycling capabilities,
so I'm really sure that this place will be a show case in the future of this effort,
including the sourcing of raw materials from the different countries,
so I'm very excited to be back again in Sweden.