Executive Interview by Vivian Chen
With the COVID-19 pandemic, Our first priority is to safeguard our people, operations and customers from adverse impacts, putting people first is always our main concern. As we continue to navigate the pandemic, and with our global network of facilities, people and customers facing varied situations, Sandvik Coromant is carefully following guidance and taking the precautionary measures provided by health authorities and local governments. We are a global company with production and distribution facilities all over the world. We are able to reallocate products between our production units to support the service of customer orders. We continuously assess inventory demand, raw material requirements, production capacity and logistics to assess and manage risks. As many of us work remotely and from home, we’ve taken a digital-first approach in customer interactions and internal meetings. This includes using our Sandvik Coromant Center for live machining demos when customers cannot visit us in person, so that we can still deliver our expertise while we’re physically apart.
Helen Blomqvist President of Sandvik Coromant
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Asia pacific plant management
In the Digital Era, As a company, we recognize the value of digital tools and our responsibility to share this knowledge with our customers. Whether companies want to reduce their number of scrapped components, shorten set times or efficiently plan for machine tool maintenance, digital services can help reduce costs, increase productivity and aid better planning. To support our customers, we’ve developed a robust, and growing, number of digital services. For example, our CoroPlus® software allows data is
