A Robot’s Grind
Fortaco Kurikka’s grinding robot keeps people happy: it lets welders weld, keeps costs under control, and ensures uniform quality.
An Analog Guy with Digital Skills
Jaroslav Kocik can’t stop being lean – whether at work or at home. Jaroslav Kocik has been lean all his life, organizing, reorganizing, and doing things a little bit more efficiently each time. But it wasn’t until he became an engineer that he…
On the Road with Ari Vatanen
Three days on the road (and factory floors) with Fortaco’s co-driver, Ari Vatanen. Ari wants to drive. Can you really say no when a World Rally Champion and four-time Paris-Dakar winner wants to sit behind the wheel of the rental car? After all,…
Problem Solver
Fortaco’s Dominik Stępień really enjoys finding practical solutions to problems. He wouldn’t mind solving yours. Like many other digital natives, Dominik Stępień's first unofficial job was as chief of his family’s IT department. "I was the type…
Lean Machine
How automobiles and a highly-organized personality turned Matti Kärkölä into an advocate for lean manufacturing. Fortaco's Operational Development team is all about cultivating a zero-defects manufacturing culture where improvement is the norm.…
Szilvia Sándor’s Homecoming
When Fortaco’s Szilvia Sándor joined the Jászberény team it was a bit like coming home. “Life is sometimes strange,” says Szilvia Sándor, Finance Manager for Fortaco Group’s Jászberény business site. Strange, because joining the company in 2020…
When the Customer Sleeps Well
What ladies lingerie taught Stanisław Ozga about off-highway equipment. The early 1990s were a difficult period in Poland, which had just begun its transition to capitalism. In 1990, Stanisław Ozga graduated university with a degree as a mining…
Fortaco’s DIY 4.0
Fortaco’s approach to Industry 4.0 allows it to do things on its own terms, controlling speed, costs, and autonomy over its data. Industry 4.0 is a fashionable term, and great to throw around at cocktail parties. But the idea of Industry 4.0 can…
How Long Until a Totally-electric Off-highway World?
While the industry’s attention often seems focused on fossil-free steel as a solution to climate change, a growing number of innovative companies – both established and startups – are solving the other, bigger problem: the generation of CO2 over…