Asset Performance Conference Programme 2023
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Wednesday 25 October 2023
- Asset Performance and Predictive Maintenance Market Trends
by Knud Lasse Lueth, CEO at IoT Analytics
- Practical Application of Smart Maintenance at Takeda
by Giovanni Seggio, Head of Maintenance at Takeda Lessines
- Preparing for the Future: Digitisation & Automation in Supply Chain
by Stefan Roelans, Manager Supply Chain projects at Colruyt Group Smart Technics
- Natural Language Processing and AI in Manufacturing: from hype to reality
by David Ariens, Manager Analytics at Aveva Select Benelux
- How to build a Human-Centric World Class Maintenance Organisations on SAP
by Tim Faulkner, VP Sales EMEA and Ty Levine, VP Global Marketing at Sigga Technologies
- Why digital maintenance transformations often are failing!
by Tom Rombouts, 4.0 Director at I-care
- Maintenance technician of the future - Understanding the 4 D’s
by Mark Haarman, Managing Partner at Mainnovation
- How to save and transfer expert knowledge in machine service?
by Sina Kämmerling, CEO & Co-founder of FINDIQ GmbH
- Supporting the Field Worker: using operations data to improve Asset Performance: Case indoor farming
by Emiel Verbunt, Manager Asset Management & Maintenance at Plantlab, and Jules Oudmans, Director at UReason
Track 1.2: Condition Monitoring Techniques & Tools for Asset Health Assessment & Asset Degradation Prediction
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- Noise-robust acoustic condition monitoring
by Albermar Dominguez, Data Scientist at I-care and Kerem Eryilmaz, Research Engineer at Flanders Make
- Multi-view Contextual Performance Profiling in Rotating Machinery
by Tom Rombouts, 4.0 Director at I-care and Elena Tsiporkova, Head of EluciDATA Lab at Sirris
- The value of continuous monitoring of flanges, pipes and steam traps with LOCTITE Pulse
by Jan Van Put, Regional Business Development Manager MRO4.0 at Henkel and Philipp Esser, Business Development Manager at Henkel
- Development of predictive models & monitoring of Steam Systems: Case Utility Support Group at Chemelot
by Peter Bosmans, Technology Manager at Sitech and Chris Sleijpen, Business process expert at Sitech Services
- Ignite Collaboration through Real-time Predictions! - Case Cosun
by Peter Van Dam, Programme Manager Smart Operations at Cosun Beet Company & Cosun and Robin Kobesen, Innovation Manager Smart Operations at Cosun
- Look forward: internal corrosion monitoring for central heating and cooling systems with water
by Karl Willemen, Founder & MD at Resus and Ivan Verhaert, Professor at EMIB, University of Antwerp
- Asset Management amidst Industry 5.0
by Jan Stoker, Senior Lecturer & Researcher at SSAMM
- Aligning Business Outcomes and Asset Management Initiatives
by Paul Casto, APM Industry Principal at GE Digital
- Quantifying the business case for Asset Management
by John Woodhouse, CEO at The Woodhouse Partnership Ltd
- Maximizing asset business value by optimising maintenance strategies: Case LNG carrier conversion into a Floating Storage and Regassification Unit (FSRU)
by Simon van Benten, Owner & Reliability Engineering Consultant at NRS Consulting
- End-of-life Decision-Making: A Practical Approach
by Arnoud Hogendoorn, Maintenance Engineer at Waterschap Hollandse Delta and Matthijs Meijer, Maintenance & Reliability Engineer at IES Asset Management
- Defining the right asset strategy with SAP ASPM
by Johan Bryssinck, Executive Manager at Dimensys and Pieter Dings, SAP EAM Consultant at Dimensys
Thursday 26 October 2023
- Reliability 5.0 in the particle board industry: case Unilin Panels
by Nelson Matthys, CEO at Versasense and Simon Beernaert, Reliability Manager Chipboards at Unilin
- Monitoring of Assets with variable behaviors and process conditions – Overview of methods and practical applications
by Christian Reinbrecht, Trainer Vibration Analysis at ibaAG
- Combining Route-based Condition Monitoring and IIoT for Asset Condition Management: Case APM Terminals
by Oussama Lemma, Global CBM/PdM Lead at APM Terminals and Brahim El Asri, Corporate Oil Analysis Engineer at APM Terminals
- Creating value at bottomline by implementing the Maintenance and Reliability journey: Case La Loraine Bakery Group
by Jan Sinnaeve, Group Director Technical Services & HSE at La Lorraine Bakery Group
- Predictive without data - How is the digital twin revolutionizing maintenance?
by Florian Stark, Sales & Business Development at Industrial Analytics IA GmbH
- Data Space for Manufacturing & Maintenance: the Sm4rtenance project + Case IJsel Technologie
by John Deken, Lead Engineer Systems and Integration at IJsel Technology and Simon Dalmolen, Senior Scientist at TNO
- Leveraging Digital Twins & Cloud Computing: Case optimiziation of Wind Turbine Performance at Vleemo
by Thomas Timmerman, Project Engineer at Vleemo and Frederik Van Leeckwyck, Business Development Director at Factry
- Digital Factory - Maintenance with virtual tours, indoor navigation and real-time data
by Tobias Schlereth, Head of Asset Operations at osapiens AssetOps and Katelijne Van Renterghem, Sales Director at osapiens Services
- Operations, Sustainability & ESG Reporting
by Sven Strasburg, Principal Solutions Architect Sustainability Software at IBM
- The journey from asset data capturing to Energy optimization: Case Cargill
by Wybren van der Meer, Senior Consultant and thais Simões, Process Improvement Engineer at Cargill
- How to achieve net positive sustainable business processes by implementing sustainable AI?
by Yarne De Munck, Co-Founder and Jarne Bogaert, Co-Founder at PolySense
- Framework and quantitative measurement models to manage cleaning of industrial equipment on basis of KPI's CO2 emission, Water waste and Circularity
by Hans Borgt, Sr. Technology Manager Industrial Cleaning at Dow Benelux and Albert Repko, Asset Management Researcher at HZ University of Applied Sciences
- Motorbox: a powerful tool to simplify energy audit of motordriven systems
by Abdessalim Arras, Engineer at EDF
- Lessons learned from the largest ESA-trial in history
by Simon Jagers, Founder at Samotics
- Challenges related to the increased electrification and advanced monitoring of electrical industrial assets
by Frits Petit, Expert Vibrations & Mechanics at Laborelec and Olivier Antoine, Delivery Lead - Power Networks & Industry at Laborelec
- Moving the Needle Forward: Predictive Maintenance for Rotating Machinery
by Jan Mertens, Product Director at relayr
- Key insights in Maintenance Digitalization based on PwC’s 2023 survey results
by Annemieke Moerkerken, Director at PwC Nederland and Jan Coekaerts, Manager Strategy & Operations Consulting
- Lessons learned from a journey to Predictive Maintenance: Case ZF Wind Power
by Jan Van Nylen, Department Head Operational Digitalization at ZF Wind Power
- Realizing the Full Potential of Predictive Maintenance Programs
by Raz Roditti, Co-Founder & CEO of Razor Labs
- Collective intelligence at the service of operational excellence: Case OCP
by Abdenour Jbili, CEO at OCP Maintenance Solutions and Nada Benazzouz, Head of Training & Consulting at OCP Maintenance Solutions
- Data-Centric, Physics-Based and Hybrid Frameworks for Asset Prognostics and Health Management in Industry 4.0
Factories
by Pradeep Kundu, Assistant Professor at KU Leuven
- Handling lack of labeled data and trust in deep learning models - A drivetrain use case
by Robbert Verbeke, Data Scientist at Sirris
- Open source solution for 3D data visualisation
by Hewie Van Ranst, Business Intelligence ENgineer at JuPaMa SRC
- How to use AI to discover real anomalies and prevent false positives: Case Cleanroom Maintenance
by Geert Vromman, CEO at CROPLAND and Lise Vandeborne, IOT Manager at ABN Cleanroom Technology
- Added value strategies for digitalised lubrication
by Guillermo Miró, Applications Engineer at Atten[2]
- Ultrasound-guided Lubrication – what’s next?
by Haris Trobradovic, Area Sales & Training Manager at SDT International and Wojciech Majka, President & CEO at Ecol Sp. Z o.o. & Ecol North America LLC
- Turbine engineer dilemma: to clean disastrously polluted turbine oil system or to build the new one? Case study on 1000MWe NPP steam turbine
by Tomas Klima, General Manager at Ecol Industrial and Wojciech Majka, President & CEO at Ecol Sp. Z o.o. & Ecol North America LLC
- How to optimise lubrication plans on an individual bearing basis
by Maxime Limbourg, RCL Director Europe South at I-care and Tom Rombouts, 4.0 Director at I-care
- Improving furnace efficiency with fiber optic technology - case Aperam
by Thomas Van Hoestenberghe, CEO at Fluves
- Automated control of heat energy distribution in industrial processes with data based Reinforcement Learning
by Paulien Lemay, Applied AI Researcher at Howest STAR Lab and Jeroen Pandelaere, Data consultant at Actemium
- Leveraging the flexibility of your (power) assets to lower your energy cost
by Robbe Sneyders, Principal ML Engineer at ML6
- Pump operational and energy intelligent, edge based tracking and improvement in real time and its impact to increase asset performance and lifetime
by Artur Hanc, CEO at Elmodis sp.z.o.o. and Marcin Swich, CTO at Elmodis sp.z.o.o.
- Do not end up in the Swamp of Swallowed Digitalization Projects!
by David Ariens, Manager Project Support and Omar Thiam, Sales Manager at AVEVA Select Benelux
- AI powered Asset Performance Management (APM) workshop for sustainable operations: The visual inspection use case
by Han van Gerwen, Technical Specialist Asset Management and Sven Strassburg, Principal Solution Architect at IBM
- Discover the value of your CMMS data (Bring your own data)
by Albermar Dominguez, Data Scientist, Damien Vercammen, 4.0 Director, Tom Rombouts, 4.0 Director and Vincent Leprince, 4.0 Engineer at I-care
- Siemens Intelligent Service and Asset Lifecycle Management - Leveraging Model-Based RAMS Methodologies
by Jishnu Jayaram, Application Engineer, Stefan Dutré, Senior Product Manager Model Based RAMS Solution and Zakaria Bachier, Application Engineer in RAMS at Siemens Digital Industries Software