Asset Performance Conference Programme
The Asset Performance Conference 2025 takes place on November 4-5, 2025. The programme will be available in May 2025.
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Programme of 2024
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Wednesday November 13, 2024
- 09:00 - 09:35
Sustainable Asset Management as a key driver in reaching the European climate and energy targets
Mark Haarman, Founder & Managing Partner, Mainnovation
- 19:00 - 19:45
Boosting Basketball Team Performance with Data and AI
by Ann Wauters, Icon of international women's basketball
- 09:35 - 10:10
Create Value with ESG: Transforming Industrial Asset Performance
by Karine Vandenberghe, CEO, Avvision
- 10:10 - 10:45
How Can Optimized Asset Performance Drive Sustainability?
by Jackie Yun, Sustainability Tech Specialist, IBM and Nils Pålsson, Sustainability Tech Specialist, IBM
- 11:15 - 11:50
Continuous emission monitoring through IoT - Case Umicore
by Martijn Samaey, Digital Transition Manager, Umicore PMR and Nelson Matthys, CEO, VersaSense
- 11:50 - 12:25
Embracing Circularity and mitigating emissions Through Lifecycle Management
by Oswald Deuchar, Global Head of Modernization Services, ABB Motion Services
- 12:25 - 13:00
Overcoming Cooling Challenges and Preventing Production and efficiency Losses in Warm Seasons
by Niels Bergsma, CEO at Hexwise
- 14:00 - 14:35
Reducing Energy Consumption, while enhancing Asset Performance; and Reliability and Delivering Increased Pistachio Quality - Case Ireco
by Filip Popov, Digital Expert, Wizata & Xavier Simon, Plant Director, IRECO Trading & Production
- 14:35 - 15:10
Simulation toolbox to validate Energy Management Systems: Application to some ENGIE use cases
by François-Xavier Bouchez, Head of Sales & Bertrand Haut, Senior Expert and Mathematics Cluster Manager, Laborelec
- 15:10 - 15:45
EnergiCare: AI for Energy Sustainability in the Pharmaceutical Industry - Case GSK
by Alix Goossens, Technical Manager, CoCEPTIO and Philippe Mack, Founder | Business Development, PEPITe
- 16:15 - 16:50
Combining electrical condition with energy monitoring to optimise asset efficiency - case pump efficiency and grid power quality
by Eric Delvaux, Account manager industry, Schaeffler Belgium and Stephan Heide, Global Sales Consultant, Schaeffler Lifetimes Solution
- 16:50 - 17:25
Maximizing your asset energy performance with Smart Heat Exchanger
by Leo Nilsson, Data Scientist, Alfa Laval
- 17:25 - 18:00
Full restoration of steam and gas turbines efficiency by removing deposits from their flow paths with deep chemical foam cleaning
by Wojciech Majka, President of The Board & CEO, Ecol Sp. z o.o.
- 09:35 - 10:10
GenAI in maintenance: what really works
by Tuur Steffens, Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company
- 10:10 - 10:45
Applying Generative AI for Asset Management - Case Barry Callebaut Group
by Olivier Ruttiens, Global asset reliability leader, Barry Callebaut Group
- 11:15 - 11:50
GenAI in Maintenance and Quality management
by Anthony Van Heymbeeck, Senior Consultant, PwC and Koen Van Kerckhoven, Manager, PwC
- 11:50 - 12:25
Using generative AI to assist RCM and the creation of maintenance plans & BOM's
by Jonathan Arys, Senior Maintenance Engineer, CoCEPTIO and Nacim Nait Baha, Software Engineer, Optimal Computing
- 12:25 - 13:00
Generative AI and Predictive Analytics to Improve Asset Reliability - Case Nippon Gases
by Ben Engels, Reliability Manager Europe, Nippon Gases and Nishanta Samal, Manager - AI Products & Services, SymphonyAI Industrial
- 09:35 - 10:10
The Journey to Maintenance Best Practice, Changing The Culture - Case Pharmaron Biologics
by Andrew Evans, Head of Engineering, Parmaron Biologics and Roy Davis, Director, MPI Limited & MCP Consulting Group
- 10:10 - 10:45
World Class Maintenance 5.0, synergy between Human Expertise and AI
by Rudi Frederix, General Manager, AMOTE
- 11:15 - 11:50
Is installing a sensor for predictive maintenance always the right answer: How to make the hype work?
by Jonas Vancauwenberghe, Business Expert Asset Performance Management, REPM Dexis
- 11:50 - 12:25
"The Digital Transformation Journey of AGC: Digital Transformation in Maintenance & Reliability as a Strategic Choice in a fast-changing company
by Gauthier Lecroart, Manufacturing strategy, maintenance & engineering manager at AGC Automotive Europe and Tom Rombouts, European Engineering, Capex and Maintenance manager, I-care Group
- 12:25 - 13:00
What does Digital Transformation Really Mean for Maintenance & Reliability?
by Tor Idhammar, President & CEO, IDCON
- 14:00 - 14:35
Anomaly Detection on Predictive Maintenance Data in a dynamic production environment - Case Unilin
by David Verstraeten, Engineering Manager, Yazzoom & Tom Rombouts, European Engineering, Capex and Maintenance manager, I-care Group & Mathieu Vroman, Data Scientist, Unilin
- 14:35 - 15:10
Advancing Predictive Maintenance for Rotating Equipment - Case OCP
by Fatima Ezzahra Sidki, Asset Management Project Lead, OCP Maintenance Solutions and Karim Ouardi, Asset Management Project Lead, OCP Maintenance Solutions
- 15:10 - 15:45
A journey from lubrication chaos to lubrication excellence
by Haris Trobradovic, Area Sales & Training Manager, SDT Ultrasound Solutions
- 16:15 - 16:50
Optimization of Turnaround Maintenance using a 5G mobile private network - Case fire surveillance at BASF
by Peter Verheyden, Maintenance Manager, BASF Antwerp and Steven Werbrouck, Expert Connectivity, BASF Antwerp
- 16:50 - 17:25
How Embedded Intelligence can automate your maintenance processes?
by Mohammed Merkachi, Corporate Head of Own Products, SOA People
- 17:25 - 18:00
Predictive maintenance of a Steam Dryer using a Machine Learning - Case Nordic Sugar
by Anders Jørgensen-Juul, Head of Projects, Nordic Sugar A/S Nakskov
- 14:00 - 14:35
Achieving Long-Term Success with Reliability-Centered Maintenance
by Virve Viitanen, Global Head of Customer Care and Support, ABB Motion Services
- 14:35 - 15:10
RCM Base Development of a Diagnostic Strategy for Equipment Assessment & Monitoring - Case Super Smelter
by Anoop Saxena, Plant Asset Management, Super Smelter Limited
- 15:10 - 15:45
How to use RCM & FMEA for effective smart Asset Monitoring & predictive maintenance
by Martin Van Den Hout, Senior Managing Consultant, Agidens and Ruben Broekx, Lead Data Scientist at Agidens
- 16:15 - 16:50
How to create a robust model for predicting failures with limited training data?
by Pradeep Kundu, Assistant Professor, KU Leuven
- 16:50 - 17:25
Eliminating downtime and catching infant mortality in an early state using LoRaWAN vibration sensors - Cases TotalEnergies Refinery Antwerp
by Franky Oste, Senior Reliability Engineer at TotalEnergies Refinery Antwerp
- 17:25 - 18:00
Data fusion and physics-supported AI models for early detection and contextualisation of upcoming failures in critical machines
by Yves Van Ingelgem, CEO, Zensor
- 11:15 - 13:00
Hands-on workshop with an out of the box mobile maintenance solution with the freedom to create anything with a true NO-CODE platform
by Bruno Pinheiro, Presales Manager EMEA, Sigga Technologies and Val Hillebrand, Vice President Sales EMEA, Sigga Technologies
- 14:00 - 15:45
Transform your Maintenance process, discover theReady4 Asset Management Journey “From simply Doing Digital to Being a Digital Organization”
by Mohammed Merkachi, Corporate Head of Own Products, SOA People and Christoph Labedzki, SAP Solution Architect, SOA People
- 16:15 - 18:00
Enhanced reliability, reduced downtime and extended life-cycle for your assets with the help of new technologies
by Oswald Deuchar, Global Head of Modernization Services, ABB Motion Services, Stephan De Vries, Global Strategic Partnerships Manager, ABB and Virve Viitanen, Global Head of Customer Care and Support, ABB Motion Services
Thursday November 14, 2024
- 09:00 - 09:35
Synergizing Process and Asset Intelligence: The Key to Advancing Your Organizational Maturity
by Bram Van Laeken, Senior Sales Consultant, IFS Ultimo and David Ariens, Manager Analytics for Industry, AVEVA Select
- 09:35 - 10:10
Importance of Asset Data - Case Aquafin
by Joris Dircx, Manager Asset Data, Aquafin
- 10:10 - 10:45
Leveraging data systems and modeling for fast decision making in maintenance
by Kasper Barslund Hansen, Researcher, Technical University of Denmark
- 11:15 - 11:50
Use of an AI Decision Machine, ERP Data and Big Data Technology to Derive, Implement, Monitor an Control an Integrated Plant Maintenance Strategy
by Markus Ahorner, CDO, Ahorner & Innovators
- 11:50 - 12:25
Benefits of the Open Standard MQTT in enhancing Asset Performance
by Ravi Subramanyan, Director of Industry Solutions, HiveMQ
- 12:25 - 13:00
Critical Asset Health Assessment of air compressors based on large scale data sources - Case Saudi Aramco
by Majed Muallem, Reliability Engineer, Saudi Aramco and Nezar Baaqeel, Reliability Engineer
- 09:00 - 09:35
AI will(noT) replace us all - How to prepare your company for the age of AI
by Dimitri Graur, AI practice lead at Kapernikov
- 09:35 - 10:10
Technical employees of the future: hr solutions to tackle ageing - Case Sitech
by Rob Gülickers, Director Technology & Innovation, Sitech
- 10:10 - 10:45
Authentic Intelligence: a human-centric approach to AI the potential of Artificial Intelligence in order to increase an organisation's performance
by Antonio Vallés, Reliability Leader, I-care Group and Tom Rombouts, European Engineering, Capex and Maintenance manager, I-care Group
- 11:15 - 11:50
Transforming Asset Performance: Humans and Autonomous Robots Working Together - Case dsm-firmenich
by Patrik D'Allens, Head of Technical Services, dsm-firmenich
- 11:50 - 12:25
When Technical Paper Goes Digital: Empowering Technicians in Real Time
by Dylan Caufrier, Founder, LightStream
- 12:25 - 13:00
Augmented Reality Platform for process & maintenance operator training and plant design communication
by Koen Penneman, CEO, PipeXperts
- 09:00 - 09:35
Six new ISO standards for asset management
by Boudewijn Neijens, CMO, Copperleaf
- 09:35 - 10:10
Asset Management 5.0: combining expert knowledge and AI to reach better decisions
by Boudewijn Neijens, CMO, Copperleaf and Michiel Ooms, Solutions Consultant, Copperleaf
- 10:10 - 10:45
Optimizing Industrial Performance: Leveraging AI and Digital Transformation for Reliability and Profitability
by Colin Burg, Senior Account Manager Reliability Solutions, Emerson and Walter Wilmsen, Sales Executive, Emerson
- 11:15 - 11:50
Optimizing Asset Performance: The Collaborative Role of osapiens HUB and ConMoto in Addressing CSRD Challenges in Asset-Intensive Industries
by Dirk Müller, Partner at ConMoto and Katelijne van Renterghem, Sales Director at osapiens
- 11:50 - 12:25
Improving health and reliability insights for your most critical assets - Case water sector
by Jan-Willem Steur, Manager Business Development | Asset management SME - IBM Maximo, ZNAPZ
- 12:25 - 13:00
The use of Vibration Sensing for a rail condition assessment - Case South African Railway
by Motlalepule Machitje, Junior Mechanical engineer, Transnet Freight Rail
- 14:00 - 14:35
Smart Grid in wastewater treatment - Case Aquafin
by Bart Van Eygen, Asset Management Director, Aquafin
- 14:35 - 15:10
How fit are your steel structures? (cranes, crane girders, moving gates,..)
by Jeroen Van Wittenberghe, Seniro Expert Fatigue & Structural Health Monitoring, OCAS and Marc Vanderschueren, Head of Development R&D Partnerships, OCAS
- 15:10 - 15:45
Sustainability impact of data-driven asset management on civil infrastructure
by Theodoor Van Der Klaauw, Managing Consultant Asset Management & Sustainability, IBM
- 14:00 - 14:35
Unlocking the Metaverse: Pioneering Digital Twins in Industry
by Diego Galar, Professor / R&D Director, Lulea University of Technology / SISTEPLANT
- 14:35 - 15:10
Photogrammetry and Pixel & Feature matching for reading and maintaining digital twins
by Adrian Merkel, R&D, Framence
- 15:10 - 15:45
Massive automated visual inspections in 3D: a whole new world
by Benjamin Bex, Project engineer LiDAR, Infrabel and Rein Lemmens, CEO, Kapernikov
- 14:00 - 14:35
Smart Services - How digitalization transforms our role as a Service provider in the Food Industry
by Patrick Houbraken, Service Program Manager, Marel
- 14:35 - 15:10
Improving spare parts availability - case Belgoprocess
by Jürgen Donders, Parner, Gordian Logistic Experts and Jurgen Gommers, Maintenance Supervisor, Belgoprocess
- 15:10 - 15:45
Additive Manufacturing & Asset Performance
by Erik Van Der Garde, CEO, Oceanz
- 11:15 - 13:00
Discover the value of your CMMS data (Possibility to send your own data upfront!)
by Tom Rombouts, Reliability & Data Driven Solutions Director, I-care Group, Tom Dierick, Reliability Engineer at I-care Group and Vincent Leprince, 4.0 Engineer, I-care Group
- 09:00 - 09:15
Condition monitoring services through electrical signature analysis (ESA) technology by ABB & Samotics
by Stephan De Vries, Global Strategic Partnerships Manager at ABB
- 09:15 - 09:30
Optimization of Online Monitoring at Icare with CCMA Method and the New G23 Sensor
by Peter Hendriks, Business Development Manager at I-care
- 09:30 - 09:45
Maintenance Optimization and Mobile Enablement Through True No-Code and Bots
by Val Hillebrand, Vice President of Sales EMEA at Sigga Technologies
- 09:45 - 10:00
AI For Everyone
by Bram Van Laeken, Sales Consultant at IFS Ultimo
- 10:00 - 10:15
New measuring modes for OPTIME sensors
by Eric Delvaux, Account Manager - Industry BE at Schaeffler
- 10:15 - 10:30
Virtual Plants, Real Outcomes: Creating Digital Twins in the Metaverse for Operational Efficiency and Accelerated ROI
by Esma Gulten, CEO & Co-Founder at Gizil
- 10:30 - 10:45
Generative AI and Predictive Analytics to Improve Asset Reliability
by Nishanta Samal, Manager Services at SymphonyAI
- 11:15 - 11:30
Wireless sensor system for monitoring of fatigue crack in steel structures
by Olivier Baas, CEO & Found at Villari
- 11:30 - 11:45
A new generation of dual-purpose wireless sensors to optimize machinery vibration diagnosis
by Christian Freneat, International Sales & Business Development| Reliability Division at Acoem
- 11:45 - 12:00
ON-GUARD – Automatic Condition Based Greasing
by Haris Trobradovic, Area Sales & Training Manager at SDT Ultrasound Solutions
- 12:00 - 12:15
Predictive Maintenance for Drivetrain Applications
by Jitse Cammaert, Service Sales Engineer Digitalisation and Motion Control at Siemens
- 12:15 - 12:30
Optimized and Streamlined Asset Management with the Suivo Asset Manager App
by Willem Naudts, Chief Product Officer at Suivo
- 12:30 - 12:45
VersaSense "Edge viewer", Industry's first Industrial grade Versatile Smart-Sensing device that enables AI driven Plug&Play Insights, straight from your Industrial assets
by Nelson Matthys, CEO at VersaSense
- 12:45 - 13:00
How synthetic data helped in faster and more accurate deployment of a vision AI algorithm for quality inspection
by Jochen Van Lysebettens, Head of Business Development at Vintecc
- 14:00 - 14:15
The added value of AMprover's RAMS module
by Nico Groen, Director at Traduco, a Mainnovation company
- 14:15 - 14:30
Boost your operational efficiency with ESA
by Nick Vervack, Sales Manager at Insens
- 14:30 - 14:45
Mastering Content Sprawl: How CabinetManager Tackles the As-Built Documentation Challenge
by Dylan Caufrier, Founder and CEO at LightStream
- 14:45 - 15:00
Unlocking the Future of Smart Maintenance: Maximize Asset Performance & Minimize Downtime with osapiens HUB
by Katelijne van Renterghem, Sales Director and expert in Asset Management at osapiens
- 15:00 - 15:15
Powering the Future: Unlocking Asset Potential with Next-Gen APM
by Herald Mulder, Software Tools & Applications Sales Expert at Hitachi Energy
- 15:15 - 15:30
Using AI to Simplify Predictive Maintenance
by Matt Kirchner, Chief Product Officer, APM at Prometheus Group
- 15:30 - 15:45
Turning spare parts and field inventory complexities into strategic advantages for success
by Vishal Punamiya, CEO at Ventory