We live in a world that develops and changes at a rapid pace. Digitization, automation and robotization have already changed many fields, tasks, work environment and people’s daily life. In order to keep up with the intensifying competition, companies have to change their operating models, processes and operations to meet the requirements of today.

Digitalization is a phenomenon that changes many tasks and at the same time it creates new tasks and new fields. It constantly creates new challenges and new opportunities.

Digitalization has changed the process automation already. Power plant operational logbook has been converted from paper and pen to electronic logbook. This will also make possible to implement the automatic functions to logbook.

Automatic reporting from automation systems instead of manual reporting including, Trends, key values and alarm handling. Artificial intelligence (AI) applications are also in near future example predicting production, mostly using machine learning algorithms, Image recognition automatically etc.

Cyber security

New “worm holes” in cyber security – criminals are really fast to utilize them and use blackmailing as a strategy.  Any organization or individual is vulnerable to these kinds of “attacks”.   Internet of things (IOT) – devices with remote connections – which are connected to open internet, are easy targets for criminals and is it good idea that in future, all devices which have electricity, will be connected to internet?

Self evaluation

Cyber security is the very crucial thing in future. Everybody who are using internet should think about example the user authentication. I have to re-think my password complexity so that my user authentication to e-mail and phone are secured.