The 13th WCM Summer School 2024 on Maintenance Management & Engineering will be held from Monday the 29th of July to Friday the 2nd of August 2024 and will be hosted in Stroe, on the education facilities of the Royal Netherlands Army.
The WCM Summer School offers an exciting and interesting program of workshops showing the multi-disciplinary aspects of modern Maintenance Management & Engineering. The workshops in the WCM Summer School will be provided by top professors in Maintenance Management & Engineering in The Netherlands.
Participants will have the time to use the gained knowledge to design improvements to the maintenance program of a case study organization. On the last day student groups will present solutions to the problems posed in the case study and a winner will be selected by a jury of representatives from industry and academia.
The two hour workshops consist of a lecture part and an application part in which the theory and knowledge will be applied on an existing case organization.
Smart Maintenance
The workshops are mapping with the maintenance themes identified in the Smart Maintenance report of WCM:
Big data analytics, Performance based contracting, Life Cycle costing, Asset portflio management, Condition based Maintenance, Integration of Asset IT systems, Design for Maintenance, Smart sensoring, Degradation models and Service supply chains.
Besides the workshops, a real case study with company visit, a unique military leadership training given by the Dutch Defense Academy and case study presentation are on the program. During the Summer School there will also be many opportunities for networking.
Description workshops WCM Summer School 2024 (preliminary)
SMART MAINTENANCE THEME: ASSET PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
Workshop: Asset Management Schiphol
Ron Wever
Schiphol invests in infrastructure and facilities across their airports to connect the world and to fulfill our ambition of creating the world’s most sustainable, high-quality airports. The workshop of Ron Wever will provide an introduction to the Asset Management system and processes of Schiphol.
Workshop: Asset Life-cycle Management
Prof.dr. Jan Braaksma
Physical assets are indispensable in our society. Oftentimes we do not even notice them, until a seemingly minor technical failure disrupts our daily life. At these moments, it becomes obvious that these assets fulfil vital functions in our lives, such as bridges and roads for transportation, the electricity grid to keep the lights on, or water treatment plants for drinking water. Furthermore, their financial value is enormous. An estimate of their value for the Netherlands alone lies around 400 billion euros. Hence maintenance is of crucial importance. Again for the Netherlands, the yearly expenses in maintenance lie around 30 to 35 billion euros.
A complicating factor is that the end of the expected functional lives of many assets is approaching, at least for Dutch infrastructure assets. Assets reaching the end of their useful life need more intensive maintenance, and modernization or life extension may be worthwhile. On the other hand, timely disposal may be necessary to prevent all kinds of excessive costs, or risks in terms of health, safety and the environment.
It is in this complex context that the asset manager operates. Next to the daily work of maintenance – often including a fair share of firefighting , tactical planning, projects such as the implementation of a new system for data collection, strategic decisions have to be made. How long will the operation of asset X be continued?
What modifications will be made to asset Y at the next overhaul? How to convince management that the purchase of asset Z is worthwhile, even though its price is higher than all other alternatives? This workshop aims to shed light on the strategic issues an asset manager faces and present findings with regard to the development of a structured to assist strategic decision-making in Asset Management.
Smart Maintenance theme: PERFORMANCE BASED CONTRACTS & Life cycle costing
Workshop: Maintenance Outsourcing Dynamics
Prof. dr. Willem van Groenendaal – University of Tilburg
The bulk of the work in maintenance is being outsourced to a broad array of 3rd parties, and from a variety of contractual relations. In this workshop, we will present at a formal typology of contractual settings in so-called maintenance service triads. We will look at how dynamic decision-making becomes different for asset owner, contractor and service provider under different contractual arrangements, and on how this affects the overall performance of this interorganizational network. Real-world examples from various industries, both process and discrete, will be provided.
Smart maintenance theme: Condition and Risk Based
SMART MAINTENANCE THEME: BIG DATA ANALYTICS
Workshop: Data driven decision support; a maintenance case.
Dr. Chris Rijsdijk – Netherlands Defense Academy
This workshop will depart from a system that serves a purpose. To manage a system, knowledge about it is indispensable but does knowledge follow from data? Scepticism about this positivist viewpoint has a long history dating back to the Ancient Greeks. Still, experience reflected in data matters. Also in the field of maintenance it often holds that an experienced veteran (with access to data from the past) outperforms a novice. So, although data does not logically imply knowledge, it may still provide meaningful decision support in practice.
Having set the scenery, we proceed with the actual use of data to support decisions at the Royal Netherlands Army (RNLA). Results from the main pilot project at RNLA will be shared and some prospective regarding data driven decision support will be outlined.
Smart maintenance theme: Smart sensoring / Degradation models
Workshop: Predictive maintenance – Practical issues and scientific challenges
Prof.dr.ir. Tiedo Tinga – Netherlands Defence Academy
To optimize maintenance programs it is important to understand the failure behaviour of systems and components and have insight in the governing loads. In this module the different load types, the basic principles of various failure mechanisms, like overload, fatigue, wear and corrosion, will be discussed. Furthermore, monitoring techniques will be addressed for the application of in preventive maintenance and structural health and condition monitoring.