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Working with sustainability is becoming more and more important for companies, since thedemands in this area are constantly increasing. To communicate this work through reports, isbecoming a mandatory activity that companies are expected to do. The existing research withinthe area of CSR is broad and much is happening in a short time, which makes this an area thatalways has the need for further investigation. Therefore, it is of interest to explore how thecompanies are viewing the concept CSR and their thoughts about this more including proposal.The purpose of this study is to investigate how SMEs today interpret the concept CSR. Further,this study will consider how SMEs communicate their CSR work and their view on the new EUdirective, regarding the CSR reporting, its impact and necessity.To give an understanding of the concept CSR, its definition and what it can mean for companies,are presented by previous research. Also, how CSR work can be communicated. This study hasconducted semi-structured interviews with six different companies to be able to get a picture ofhow companies today view the concept of CSR, sustainability, and its reporting requirements.The findings show that companies work with several perspectives on sustainability to meet theirstakeholders’ requirements. Also, the perspectives are prioritized in different orders.Conclusions are drawn that CSR is not a widespread concept in Sweden. The term sustainabilityis more commonly used. The overall view of sustainability is to give back to the society in oneway or another. It was raised several times during the interviews that it often could be hard tovisualize the social sustainability. Which contribute to an interesting part to further researchhow this could be made.It is also stated that companies always want to do more, but the majority of companies miss theresources, people, and competence for this. This opens the question of how this competencegap can be minimized. The respondents turned out to have

Steelform Scandinavia AB is a company that manufactures fittings for reversible windows. This study has examined the stops that occur at a robot line which accounts for a large part of the company’s assembly. The company’s previous values of the robot lines overall equipment efficiency, OEE, has varied between 45-75%. Today, OEE calculations are no longer made due to the company having problems seeing the reliable ones as it is difficult to get a clear picture of availability. The purpose of this study is to identify which stops that occur at the robot line, how much impact the downtime has on the OEE value and how the stops can be remedied. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, the following questions has been formulated: [1] Which overall equipment efficiency, OEE, has the robot line? [2] What type of stops occurs at the robot line? [3] How can the stop downtimes be remedied and thereby increase the overall equipment efficiency by the robot line? The result of the observations that has been done shows that it is a big amount of stops that occur at the robot line that contributes to a high downtime. This downtime also contributes to the low OEE value that the study estimates that the robot line currently has. If the downtime is divided into necessary and other unplanned stops shows that 62% of the total downtime is time that goes to the other unplanned stops, thus stops that do not have to arise if the reasons for these are remedied. If this time instead can be converted into production time the efficiency and capacity of the robot line will increase. In this study this gives an increase of the OEE value with 13,7%. Proposed actions that are given is that the company should get a better knowledge about OEE and what its values means. Also, be able to use this to know where improvements are needed. The most frequent stops are explained and the reasons why these stops occur turns out to be based on several different things. A number of factors are important fo