STORIES FROM THE WORLD OF THE VOLVO GROUP 5.2018 THIS PAGE IS ACTUALLY NOT BLANK. To see it, you need to download the Volvo Group AR Stories app and view it through your device. The same app gives you access to lots of other augmented reality features inside the magazine, which all focus on technology and innovation. EDITORIAL The future is closer than ever EAR COLLEAGUES! technology is used for the right application, will it We innovate, not for its own become a game changer. sake but to turn radical technical So, we will continue to refine our diesel development into practical benefits for engines, aerodynamics, cab comfort, head-lights customers and society. The last couple and all the other well-known technologies, in Dof years have been exciting, marked by important parallel with the development of electromobility, decisions that will take us into the future. automation and connectivity. Innovation within What we are capable of demonstrating these technologies is as important as ever and today within automation, electromobility and we spend the main part of our research and connectivity is unique in our industry and it development investment within well-known shows the strength and the scope of the Volvo technologies. Group. The rapid development of new technologies, IN RECENT YEARS, we have been able to digital in particular, offers great potential. To present an impressive line-up of electrified and achieve fast adoption, a different approach to autonomous vehicles and solutions. We are innovation is required. It will be more important capable of taking steps like these because of the to work with an ecosystem of partners, to test competence and know-how we have built in and iterate new products and solutions directly the Volvo Group. I am proud of what we have on the market in order to increase the speed of achieved and confident about our innovation cycles. future ambitions. Today, the future is closer On occasion, WE HAVE DEVELOPED a number of innovative than ever – you can find it on members of the Executive Board ways of working around the world and the most the following pages in this very take turns writing recent addition – both as a location and a way magazine. the editorial. of working – is CampX. The main purpose of CampX is to create an arena where we will combine internal and external teams with the ambition of co-creating future transport solutions in a spirit of entrepreneurship. I often get asked ‘is this the end of combustion engine technology?’ My answer is no. The future LARS STENQVIST, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY of sustainable mobility consists of a mix of OFFICER VOLVO GROUP different propulsion systems. Each technology & EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT GROUP has its own advantages, but, only when the right TRUCKS TECHNOLOGY 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 Tobias Wilhelm EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Tobias Wilhelm EDITORS Åsa Alström, Lotta Bävman, Monika Voland and Linda Joneland. A Group-wide Editorial Network also contributes content. MARKET LANGUAGE REVIEW Tobias Wilhelm EDITORIAL PRODUCTION Spoon (project team: Linda Swanberg, Jimmy Håkansson, 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 5.2018 5.2018 8 Influencing the influencers At the latest Innovation Summit in Berlin, the Volvo Group once again forged stronger ties with policy makers, media, customers and society at large. 18 Pioneering concept 8 becomes reality Volvo CE’s Electric Site is on track to help create the world’s first emission- free quarry. 30 Technology at work Three cutting edge innovations that might make Volvo Group employees’ daily work that little bit easier. 46 On the frontline of innovation 18 30 In Silicon Valley, Jenny Elfsberg is looking for inspiring new partners for the Volvo Group to work with. 50 Cleaner, quieter and with more power The Volvo Group’s new turbo compound engines are setting a new standard in North America. ALWAYS INSIDE 4 START 46 50 58 INSIGHTS 64 QUIZ VOLVO GROUP MAGAZINE 5.2018 3 start AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE VOLVO GROUP Your magazine in new dimensions IF YOU ARE reading this in a Electric Site. Or why not enter the printed magazine, you are part of world of the technician and examine an old narrative tradition dating a D13 engine at close quarters? back several centuries. However, At the end of the day, what just like the combustion engine, the determines whether technological medium of print is being challenged development leads to innovation by technological development. is quite simply whether it creates With innovation and technological value for someone. For this reason, leadership as the theme in this issue, we are incredibly curious to see how it therefore feels absolutely right to you experience the AR content of test new technology as a means of this issue. Please feel free to contact enhancing the reading experience of [email protected] and Volvo Group Magazine! tell us. Downloading our new We hope you enjoy the magazine Augmented Reality (AR) app gives and the AR experience! you the opportunity to experience totally new dimensions of the autonomous transport solution TOBIAS WILHELM, known as Vera and Volvo CE’s EDITOR IN CHIEF How to get started with AR 1 2 DOWNLOAD THE APP FIND INTERACTIVE VOLVO GROUP AR STORIES ARTICLES 3 4 VIEW IMAGE EXPERIENCE THROUGH DEVICE AR-MAGIC 4 VOLVO GROUP MAGAZINE 5.2018 VIDEO: See the Smart societies – new future in action DOWNLOAD THE APP transport opportunities VOLVO GROUP AR STORIES THE VOLVO GROUP’S MISSION is Or a cleaner, safer and more resource- to drive prosperity through transport efficient world? To improve mobility and solutions. As the need for transport quality of life, the Volvo Group envisions continues to rise, so could problems smart societies based on automation, such as road accidents, air pollution electrification and connectivity. Read and congestion, unless we, as a society, more in this issue and watch Volvo find smarter solutions. What will it take Group’s future scenario “Smart to build a silent, emission-free city? societies” through the AR app. New home Volvo CE’s new headquarters for Volvo CE HQ VOLVO Construction Equipment has Find apps to build on moved into its new headquarters FOR THIS ISSUE, we made an AR-app! on Campus Lundby in Gothenburg, Thinking about making an app to support your Sweden, the same site as other work? Make sure to check if someone has Volvo business areas. The move will already made an app you can build on. The facilitate sharing resources, best Mobile Center of Excellence has more than 160 practice and competence, as well as mobile apps in its portfolio and supports all creating even more opportunities for brands and entities in the Volvo Group. collaboration. Check it out! Campus Lundby is a large site, apps.volvogroup.com covering an area of 375,000m² – Volvo Buses and Volvo Penta. The equivalent to 54 football pitches. building is situated close to the At the site, Volvo Construction Volvo Group headquarters and other Equipment shares a building with Volvo Group organisations. VOLVO GROUP MAGAZINE 5.2018 5 start AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE VOLVO GROUP Teaching the next generation THE UD TRUCKS’ Foreign Technical Internship Program accepts trainee technicians from other countries. It is designed to help trainees acquire technical skills that they can take back and share in their home countries. While the trainees gained insight into truck maintenance, their hosts in Japan also had a positive experience. Kanamaru Takahiro says: “In all, the Kanto region will accept around 50 foreign technical interns this year. I expect our technicians to gain a lot by working alongside these trainees, who have a positive attitude and are highly motivated.” Recently, 12 trainee technicians from the Philippines joined four customer centres in the Kanto region of Japan. The Kanto region of Japan will accept around 50 foreign technical interns as part of a programme run by UD Trucks this year. A bus that THE NUMBER drives itself VOLVO BUSES IS now not only a pioneer in electromobility, it is also a leader in automation. In June, its first autonomous 25 bus was demonstrated during the Volvo Ocean Race Starting in 2019, solar power Volvo Buses new will contribute towards the in Gothenburg, Sweden. 12-metre autonomous goal of making production The 12-metre bus is bus prototype is equipped CO₂ neutral in India. It will with sensors to navigate. equipped with sensors to also lower energy costs by 25 per cent for Volvo Group’s navigate. It is also energy plant locations in Hosakote efficient, has low operating that Volvo Buses can and safe future for coming and Peenya in India. costs and is environmentally announce yet another first – generations,” says Håkan friendly. the autonomous bus! We are Agnevall, President Volvo “I feel immensely proud part of creating a sustainable Buses. 6 VOLVO GROUP MAGAZINE 5.2018 Life on the road with Mack Trucks Josiane Bélanger was awarded the grand prize at the Inspire EIGHT-YEAR-OLD environmentalist Ryan Awards. Here together with runs a successful recycling business in Ralph Acs, President. California, USA. Now his story is profiled in Mack Trucks’ RoadLife series.