Anton Melander

Best Quotes

“The barrier to get started is almost none. You can take the data as it is and start using it — customers spend their time actually analyzing it instead of grabbing it from different sources and figuring out how to structure it.”

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“We were trying to build an MES that would be easy, accessible, and highly customizable. But implementing a transactional system means forcing change in an organization — and change management is difficult and risky.”

From 4 to 140: What Building Northvolt’s Digital Core Taught Anton Melander About Scaling and Starting Over

“The majority — more than 90% of all manufacturing companies in the world — employ fewer than 200 people. So how do they deal with digitalization in general?”

From 4 to 140: What Building Northvolt’s Digital Core Taught Anton Melander About Scaling and Starting Over

“The thing I would look out for is how you manage your master data. It's very easy to draw the perfect architecture of how different systems own different data — but that makes the whole speed of the organization dependent on certain technical achievements, which you should try to minimize.”

From 4 to 140: What Building Northvolt’s Digital Core Taught Anton Melander About Scaling and Starting Over

“We had quite a lot of influence on how the OPC UA server should look — the service structure, the tag structure. Had we redone this today, we'd probably have used the UNS or something like that to help.”

From 4 to 140: What Building Northvolt’s Digital Core Taught Anton Melander About Scaling and Starting Over