Complex case Schiphol for participants thirteenth WCM Summer School

The upcoming large-scale renovation of Airport Schiphol’s C pier was the focus of the WCM Summer School 2024. Participants from asset owners and technical service providers and students, worked in teams to find the best answer to Royal Schiphol Group’s questions.

‘The level of the different solutions was quite high,’ says Christiaan Sijmons of Schiphol afterwards.

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WCM Summer School 2024 – Royal Schiphol Group: ‘If it wasn’t so complex, we would have solved it long ago’

The case of the WCM Summer School this summer revolves around Schiphol Airport’s C-Pier renovation project. The issue the participants will be working on has a technical and organisational aspect, explains Ron Wever.

“The idea is to think about this together at a high tactical and strategic level during the WCM Summer School.”

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WCM Summer School 2024 – apply for June 14th! (deadline extended)

Are you a young professional (within 10 years after graduation) or technical Master/PhD student or, with a special interest in Maintenance Management & Engineering, then apply to the 13th edition (before June 14th) of our WCM Summer School 2024 (July 29th – August 2nd, 2024) and challenge yourself in our exciting program. 

“Challenge yourself in our multi-disciplinary Summer School on Maintenance Management & Engineering. Satisfy intellectual curiosity, gain new professional skills in the area of Maintenance and extend your professional network by joining the WCM Summer School″ (prof. dr. H. Akkermans, and director World Class Maintenance)

Please click here for a short movie about the WCM Summer School (Dutch)

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WCM Summer School 2023 ‘A mirror has been held up to us’

How can the availability of the Cougar helicopter go up and how can deployment be more flexible from a maintenance perspective? And what lessons do we take to the successor of the Cougar? These questions were central to the practical case of the Royal Air Force during the twelfth WCM Summer School.

‘It is admirable to see how people were able to put down such analyses and solutions in five days’

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Gasunie case puts WCM Summer School participants to the test

This year, Gasunie provided the case for the eleventh edition of the WCM Summer School. A case consisting of several layers and questions, explains Scholte Strikwerda. “It is a challenging mega-case, in which the overriding question is how we can properly manage the imbalance in energy demand in time and place within the Netherlands as a whole.”

As part of the energy transition, Gasunie’s entire transport network must be converted and/or renewed. This is an investment running into billions, which is subject to time pressure, involves many uncertainties and has to deal with changing frameworks. “The situation in Ukraine is of course a shining example. Developments are exceptionally fast these days, also in technology. It is all less predictable than before. You want to look far ahead, but within that you have to be as flexible as possible”, Strikwerda explains.

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