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STORIES FROM THE WORLD OF THE VOLVO GROUP 2.2018 HELPING SAVE LIVES ... AND 9 OTHER WAYS THE VOLVO GROUP IS DRIVING PROSPERITY EDITORIAL Matter of life and death AVE YOU EVER thought about how cleaner and more efficient and we are making a crucial our products and services conscious effort at every link in the value chain are for society to function? The to reduce our environmental impact. We are food we eat is transported to a already leaders when it comes to electric buses shop by a truck. We travel on and we are now developing future hybrid and Hroads and work in buildings and plants that are fully electric solutions in our other business built using construction equipment. We often areas. In 2019, for example, we are going to start simply take all this for granted, but in actual selling fully electric trucks. fact transport and the infrastructure make our New technology is offering us new modern lives possible. opportunities to improve logistics systems, Sometimes we only understand just how create value for our customers and reduce our important things are when they stop working. environmental footprint. But it is never a matter When it is a question of life and death. We of using technology simply for its own sake, produce engines that power fire-fighting vehicles however. It is always about what technology can and maritime rescue boats. The UN uses our do for us. If we build a truck, it needs to be safe trucks to deliver food to starving families. In for other road users and for the person driving it, a country like Lebanon, where the electricity so that they return home safely to their families supplies are sporadic, hospital operating theatres at the end of a working day. Both today and in are able to continue working thanks to gensets the future. built using Volvo Penta engines. IN THIS ISSUE of Volvo Group Magazine, you can read about 10 examples of ways all of us at the Volvo Group, together with our customers and partners, are driving prosperity in different parts of the world – right here, right now. If we look ahead, we can see that our contribution to society is going to be increasingly important. When the global population grows, so, too, does the need for transport and infrastructure. We then need to meet this demand with solutions that are gradually becoming more and more sustainable. MARTIN LUNDSTEDT P R ES I D E N T A N D C E O, We are continuing to make our diesel engines VO LVO G RO U P VOLVO GROUP MAGAZINE is aimed at all the co-workers within the Volvo Group. It is published five times a year in Swedish, English, German, French, Portuguese for Brazil, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Dutch, Korean, Thai, Chinese and Spanish. PRINT RUN approx. 75,000 copies ADDRESS Volvo Group Magazine, Volvo Group Headquarters, Dept AA13400, VLH6, SE-405 08, Göteborg, Sweden PHONE +46 (0)31 66 00 00 E-MAIL [email protected] EDITOR RESPONSIBLE UNDER SWEDISH PRESS LAW Markus Lindberg EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Markus Lindberg EDITORS Åsa Alström, Lotta Bävman, Carolina Reis and Tobias Wilhelm. A Group-wide Editorial Network also contributes content. MARKET LANGUAGE REVIEW Markus Lindberg EDITORIAL PRODUCTION Spoon (project team: Maria Sköld, Linda Swanberg, Nic Townsend, Pernilla Stenborg, Ken Niss, Sofia Hammarin) PRINTED BY LSC Communications CHANGE OF ADDRESS Contact your local HR TRANSLATED BY Jeanette Kliger 2 VOLVO GROUP MAGAZINE 2 . 2018 2.2018 Every day, Volvo Group products and solutions help fulfill the mission of driving prosperity through transport solutions. Follow WAYS OF DRIVING us on a trip around the PROSPERITY globe to find out how. Providing power 08 in Lebanon In Lebanon, Volvo Penta engines are used in gensets to provide electricity across the country. 18 Keeping the streets clean in New York Mack Trucks is playing a key role in New York City’s ambitious waste management plans. 08 18 22 Constructing new roads in India India is investing in public infrastructure, and Volvo CE is proving to be a valuable partner for highway construction projects. 40 Investing in Ethiopia’s youth As skills shortages hold back growth in Ethiopia, the Volvo Group is helping to develop young technicians. 22 40 ALSO INSIDE 54 FULLY ELECTRIC TRUCKS IN 2019 56 MEET VOLVO CE’S NEW PRESIDENT 60 EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION IN TUVE 66 KINA WILEKE WANTS EVERYONE TO COMMUNICATE VOLVO GROUP MAGAZINE 2 . 2018 3 start AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE VOLVO GROUP Volvo FH turns 25 AFTER SEVEN YEARS of product especially impressed by the and is the only truck that has been development, Volvo Trucks modern design, the innovative voted Truck of the Year three presented its heavy-duty truck safety features and the attention times: in 1994, 2000 and 2014. TRUCKS VOLVO PHOTO: Volvo FH in 1993. "The future is to driver needs. The truck was Twenty-five years after its launch, here!" read the announcement and updated regularly before it was more than half a million units have the model was perceived as a real relaunched in 2012. been sold, making Volvo FH one of game changer for the industry. Over the years, Volvo FH has the most successful truck series of Observers at the time were remained a favourite with drivers all time. New President of Mack Trucks MARTIN WEISSBURG President of Volvo Financial will become President of Services Americas, before Mack Trucks as of 1 June, becoming global President 2018. For the past four of VFS in 2010. He will be years, he has headed Volvo based in Greensboro, USA. GROUP VOLVO PHOTO: VFS Thailand introduces a “first” among1 truck brands in Construction Equipment and Martin Weissburg Thailand, an offer for Volvo in his new capacity he will succeeds Dennis Slagle, who and UD customers to split continue to be a member of will remain with the Volvo their down payment over six months at no interest, and the Executive Board for the Group as a special projects receive a credit card as an Volvo Group. leader reporting to Martin added value when choosing Martin Weissburg joined Lundstedt, President and the Volvo Group. the Volvo Group in 2005 as CEO. Martin Weissburg 4 VOLVO GROUP MAGAZINE 2 . 2018 Self-driving electric buses in Singapore VOLVO BUSES has partnered with under realistic conditions in a Nanyang Technological University major city that has high ambitions (NTU) in Singapore to develop and for its public transport,” said PHOTO: SARMAAJI BHUVANAGIRI test self-driving electric buses. The Håkan Agnevall, President Volvo aim is to develop an autonomous Buses, when the programme was version of the all-electric, 12-metre presented. Volvo 7900 Electric in 2018 so that Singapore has announced that tests can start in 2019. it wants to start using autonomous “Together with NTU, one of vehicles before 2022. Of the 2,000 HELLO... the world’s leading universities double-decker buses presently of technology, we now have the used in the city, 1,800 run on a possibility to test various solutions Volvo chassis. ... Girish Jandhyala, Learning Program Manager at Volvo Group University Greensboro, USA You were recently invited to speak at the inter- national Opex Conference in Amsterdam. What did you present? “It was titled Unleashing Operational Excellence and was attended by senior PHOTO: VOLVO BUSES VOLVO PHOTO: management from many big companies, so it was an honour to present what the Volvo Group is doing. I talked about our work with continuous improvement and VPS, Volvo Production System. Many companies try some version of this, but a study from consultancy firm McKinsey shows that 70 per cent of transformation programmes fail. One reason could be too much focus on technical aspects and not enough on the culture and the basic fibre of its people.” Singapore has high ambitions for its city transport and is the ideal testing ground for autonomous buses. In 2019, two 12-metre Volvo 7900 Electric will be used to try Why is that so important? different autonomous solutions under realistic conditions. “We must distinguish between merely having the knowledge of something and truly understanding it. For a transformation to succeed, it must be part of the culture of the workplace and in people’s everyday lives. Then Stricter emission rules in Europe you will understand it and live the change. Culture must come from the top. In the Volvo IN RECENT DECADES, regulators in Europe, the USA and Japan have Group, we can see many important changes progressively implemented stricter emission standards for new heavy-duty from the culture implemented by Martin engines. Next year, the toughest rules to date will come into force in Europe. Lundstedt.” Under the European Commission’s new legislation, heavy-duty trucks sold in Europe need to declare fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. These What is special about the Volvo Group when it values can be used to calculate the emissions and fuel consumption for a comes to operational excellence? specific truck, something that is otherwise difficult, since heavy-duty vehicles “A big difference is that we have an are typically custom built. operational excellence strategy for the whole The Volvo Group welcomes the new legislation which will make it easier Group, not just pockets of it. And we try to make to compare customised offers from different truck manufacturers to find the it simple, so that everyone can relate to VPS most fuel-efficient option. and even use it outside work.” VOLVO GROUP MAGAZINE 2 . 2018 5 start AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE VOLVO GROUP A novel way of solving problems GROUP IT HACKATHONS are becoming PHOTO: PHOTO: UD TRUCKS increasingly popular.