Peab brought fragmented production data from multiple worksites into one operational picture with IoT-TICKET. The result is real-time visibility that supports both maintenance and management—and keeps production running without unnecessary downtime.
Introduction
Peab is a Nordic community builder. Its crushing and asphalt plants are a key part of the company’s infrastructure and construction value chain. The world of large construction machinery and production plants is full of moving parts—quite literally. Every crusher, conveyor, and mixer continuously produces data: power, pressure, temperature, and energy consumption. The equipment also moves regularly from one site to another, making information management even more demanding.
In infrastructure and civil engineering, the rhythm of production is often set by the fleet. When equipment runs optimally, worksites progress, consumption stays under control, and emissions decrease. Every gauge and sensor is part of this continuous chain, where data and hands-on operations go side by side.
Challenge: making measurement data usable
At Peab, telemetry was already being collected from equipment before IoT-TICKET, and the data was stored in the cloud. What was missing was a consistent way to present, compare, and use that information. The situation was made more complex by mobile plants, a fleet with a wide age range, and differences in sensor scaling, which made it difficult to compare measurements reliably.
Making sense of large volumes of data was challenging, and maintenance lacked a clear, real-time view of what was happening in production.
“In practice, we already had measurement data, but we didn’t have a place where we could review it in a sensible way. We had information, but no visibility,” says Automation Specialist Joona Kouhia, a key user of Peab’s industrial IoT system.
Solution: real-time, predictive maintenance
The goal was to find a solution that would make it easy—and visually clear—to use large volumes of data. Different options were evaluated carefully. The most important requirement was that the system would support both production management and maintenance without heavy software development.
The first step was to review ready-made reporting tools. A tailored solution was also considered.
“Even major players’ reporting tools were still a bit of a rough draft at the time, and building our own solution would have taken a lot of time and development resources,” recalls Antti Huhta, Service Manager at Peab Industri. “We wanted something that would be usable right away, but still configurable to our needs. The goal wasn’t to start a big IT project, but to get a tool that supports production and maintenance in everyday work.”
Ultimately, two factors were decisive in choosing the IoT-TICKET platform: its low-code user interface and the system’s technical performance. “What appealed to us in IoT-TICKET was how efficiently it could present huge volumes of data points in real time. We could smoothly review long-term data and still drill down into details in an instant,” Huhta says.
A ready-made platform and low-code approach bring agility to day-to-day work
From Peab’s perspective, a solution built with traditional custom software development would not have been flexible enough. Production environments evolve constantly, and equipment configurations change as worksites change. That is why Peab needed a solution that could be adapted quickly—without writing code. IoT-TICKET’s built-in tools and low-code approach speed up everyday work.
Today, the platform ingests data from crushing and asphalt plants. Telemetry is collected from thousands of measurement points—frequency converters, pressure and temperature sensors, oil circulation systems, fuel meters, and GPS units.
The practical benefits are most visible in maintenance and production monitoring. Site managers can track plant operation and load remotely, and maintenance personnel get detailed views into potential faults.
“If there’s a problem in oil cooling, for example, I can immediately check from the data what the temperatures have been and whether the condenser has been operating. Often I can directly conclude whether a sensor is broken or whether it’s an actual equipment fault,” Kouhia says.
Use cases:
- Production monitoring:
Site managers can track runtime and downtime,
power levels, and loads of crushing plants in real time. - Maintenance: IoT-TICKET helps identify faults and anomalies quickly and determine their root causes—often already from early symptoms.
- Energy and emissions monitoring: The data makes it possible to compare energy consumption across different rock types and production methods, and to identify factors that would increase emissions.
- Fleet location: GPS shows where mobile plants and machines are at any given time—especially useful when the fleet moves from one site to another.
- Management reporting: Production volumes, targets, and actuals can be monitored at management level from the same view that also supports operational work.
Results
Faster fault diagnostics and less downtime.
Maintenance can see what happened in the equipment before a failure—all in one place. Deviations in oil cooling, sensor faults, or power spikes can be identified in minutes.
“I know the threshold values when the condenser should start. If the curve doesn’t behave as expected, we immediately know where the problem is”, says Joona Kouhia.
Leaks detected early.
An increase in the frequency of compressed air pumping cycles reveals a growing leak—so the site can be contacted before the issue escalates.
“At one plant the pump was running every minute, at another twice a day. We could see straight from the data that it was leaking,” Kouhia says.
Transparency into production.
Production hours, loads, and stoppages can be verified with second-by-second accuracy. This makes it easier to validate recorded reasons, improve reporting, and optimise settings.
A foundation for managing energy efficiency and emissions.
Peab can analyse how different rock types load the process and how much energy is consumed per tonne—critical information for both cost control and sustainability.
“We’ve started looking into how different rock types affect energy consumption and emissions. It helps us identify where the efficiency gains and savings are,” Kouhia says.
One platform, various types of machines.
Instead of manufacturer-specific clouds, all data is consolidated in one place.
“In the manufacturers’ own systems you can’t freely modify the views. In IoT-TICKET we make the view the way we want—and all the information is in one place,” Kouhia says.
Measurable business value.
“We were convinced early on that this has monetary value,” says Antti Huhta. “You can see it in process efficiency and maintenance—we can catch hidden faults already from early symptoms. Time spent searching for faults decreases when the entire plant’s data is immediately available.”
Collaboration
With IoT-TICKET’s low-code user interface, Peab has been able to build a large share of its dashboards itself. The IoT-TICKET team has supported Peab with integrations, data structure design, and the planning of new use cases.
“Collaboration has been suitably proactive. When our resources sometimes get swallowed by projects, IoT-TICKET’s experts have helped push things over the finish line and brought development ideas. A technically capable platform and a skilled team.” Antti Huhta sums up.
The pace of development has also been praised. In the early phase, technical clarifications related to Peab’s use cases were resolved quickly, and adopting new features from the continuously evolving IoT platform has been smooth.
“Collaboration works really well. Requests are handled quickly, and it’s great to see that changes and improvements move forward at a good pace,” says Joona Kouhia.
Beyond hands-on support, the IoT-TICKET team has provided ideas for further development—for example, how data from different production units can be harmonised and used more effectively in maintenance and energy monitoring.
“It’s been a good feeling that we’re being listened to. The IoT-TICKET team understands what our day-to-day life in the field is like, and they can suggest solutions based on that,” Huhta notes.
Peab is a Nordic community builder with 13,000 employees and a turnover of EUR 5.1 billion. With a local presence and focus on our own resources we develop, do the groundwork and build everyday life where it’s lived. The company’s share is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
Additional information
IoT-TICKET
Jussi Nummela
Customer Success Specialist
jussi.nummela(at)wapice.com
Peab Industri
Antti Huhta
Service Manager
antti.huhta(at)peab.fi
