30th - 31st October 2025

Agenda

DAY 1

08:00 – 08:50

REGISTRATION

08:55 – 09:00

CHAIRPERSON’S OPENING REMARKS

09:00 - 09:30

Digitally enabled Asset Management

  • Providing the principles for digitally enabled asset management
  • Exploration of the role emerging digital technologies can play in the future of maintenance
  • Use cases that show advancements in maintenance
  • A perspective on the future of maintenance

John Ahmet Erkoyuncu, Professor in Digital Engineering and Head of the Centre for Digital and Design Engineering, Cranfield University

09:30 - 10:00

Predictive maintenance at Unilin group, leveraging online monitoring and anomaly detection

  • Monitoring at Scale and anomaly Detection
  • Data Integration and Visualization Challenges
  • From Early Warning to Predictive
  • Use of the asset performance tool and Root Cause Analysis for Continuous Improvement
  • Collaborative Innovation and Knowledge Sharing

Kurt Dhaene, Digital Operations & Maintenance 4.0 – Reliability, Unilin

10:00 - 10:30

Smarter in a Day – Scaling Edge AI for Predictive Maintenance and Autonomy

  • Discover how existing machines can become smarter—in just one day.
  • In this keynote, Bart Zeeman, CTO Office – Data & Analytics (NXP), and Marcel Mourits, Vice President Digital Manufacturing (CGI), share how Edge AI is transforming predictive maintenance and operational efficiency, enabling next steps toward full autonomy and agentic AI.
  • This is not a concept, but a real implementation in NXP factories today—ready to inspire any other industrial environment.
  • This innovation brings together best-in-class service, integration, hardware, and software partners in a flexible, scalable, and easy-to-use setup—without the need for heavy upfront investment.
  • Join us to explore how Edge AI can make your operations smarter, faster, and more resilient: starting today.

Bart Zeeman, NXP CTO Office – Data & Analytics, NXP
Marcel Mourits, CGI Vice President Digital Manufacturing, CGI

10:35 - 11:25

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 - 12:00

Modern Air Compressor Technology Enhancing Manufacturing Reliability, Cost Reduction and Sustainability

  • Role of air compressors in modern manufacturing
  • Case studies: From Sustainability KPIs to actual results
  • How high-speed technology and active magnetic bearings shifts manufacturing to more efficient and sustainable direction?
  • Suppliers as part of reliability network in compressed air production
  • Utilization of compressor system data for improved production

Timo Sihvo, Sales Manager, Nordics, Tamturbo

12:00 - 12:30

Navigating reliability in a changing world: smart maintenance in shipping by continuous learning

In an industry as dynamic as shipping, smart maintenance is not a luxury, it’s a necessity. Esther will take you on the journey she and her team took to navigate reliability by continuous learning, behaviour awareness, and reliability practices. By blending technical monitoring with human insight, we unlock smarter and more resilient maintenance strategies to navigate the future

  • Anthony Veder, complexity and challenges to be an ambitious leader in gas shipping service solutions
  • Understanding human behaviour, how do we manage changes and expectations between departments at sea and ashore
  • Implementing continuous learning by root cause analysis, and condition/performance monitoring
  • The strategic role of reliability team as a central support function, the link between data and decision making
  • Bridging technology and people: aligning technical solutions with operational realities
  • How do we navigate the future

Esther van der Voort, Reliability Manager, Anthony Veder

12:30 - 13:00

Asset Performance Optimization

How do you turn performance improvement ambitions into tangible results? Justin shares his experience on how to start with assessing the current situation, then defining and deploying improvement workstreams such as asset management foundations, maintenance strategies and EAM optimization. We also address change management to ensure adoption and lasting impact. Justin will take the audience through the approach based on a real-world success story for Victrex, a world-leader in polymer production.

Justin Satink, Senior Consultant, MaxGrip

PLANNED INVESTMENT AREAS

  • Predictive Maintenance & Analytics
  • Remote Management
  • Non-intrusive Inspection
  • Lubrication Systems & Fluid Analysis Solutions
  • Industrial Cleaning
  • HMI/SCADA
  • Worker Safety
  • Sound & Vibration Analysis
  • Augmented & Virtual Reality (AR & VR)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Mechanical Protection
  • Cybersecurity
  • MES / Shop-floor Digitization
  • Workforce Training and Development
  • Process Digitalization & Automation
  • Unified Communications / Wireless Connectivity
  • Cloud, Edge & IoT Data Management
  • Asset Lifecycle Management
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Machine & Deep Learning
  • Wearable Digital Technologies
  • Robotic Inspection & Maintenance
  • Asset Performance Management (APM 4.0)
  • Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Asset Optimization
  • Mobile/Field Worker Solutions
  • Data Analytics
  • Condition Monitoring
  • Fault detection, isolation, and recovery (FDIR)

13:05 - 13:55

LUNCH

14:00 - 14:30

People, process, technology and data – to continuously improve maintenance capabilities

  • Continuously building maintenance capabilities to support high performance over the long term
  • Including four dimensions, People, Process, Technology and Data to reach sustainable and effective capabilities
  • Challenges and opportunities to align 30 factories with different set-ups, locations and sizes
  • Building a global model with common standards and systems

Ulrika Garbe, Process Leader Maintenance, Operational Excellence, IKEA Industry AB

14:30 – 15:00

Managing the sparepart process

Specific issues:

  • As maintenance department to be viewed as a value generator and not a cost center through efficient maintenance processes and asset management systems
  • Calculating the optimum amount of spareparts
  • Change management of the maintenance and production department and how to communicate in different layers of the organization, to secure the optimum spareparts are accepted

Output & Gains:

  • Significant savings on the maintenance cost of holding spares per annum or savings from production losses due to having the right spares in hand
  • A data driven decision solution, where decisions are taking from available data and not on “gut” feeling

Thomas Nielsen, Head of Maintenance, Nordic Sugar A/S

15:00 – 15:30

Integrating Energy Efficiency with Predictive Maintenance Strategies for Sustainable Manufacturing

  • Energy-Centered Maintenance goes beyond Reliability-Centered Maintenance by reducing energy waste while optimizing operations making it ideal for less critical equipment.
  • Explore case studies, which show how our 6-in-1 IIoT sensor has achieved efficient results in the cement, chemicals, mining, oil and gas, and automotive industries.

Cláudio Almeida , Chief Operating Officer , Enging

15:35 - 16:25

COFFEE BREAK

16:30 - 17:00

From Data to Decisions: Elevating Predictive Maintenance to the Boardroom

  • Turn data into strategic value: Discover how predictive maintenance goes beyond uptime to drive profitability, efficiency, and sustainability
  • Benchmark your progress: Understand where your organization stands compared to industry leaders and how to move from pilot to full implementation
  • Align with boardroom priorities: Learn how to frame predictive maintenance in terms of ROI, ESG impact, and risk management to secure executive buy-in
  • Stay competitive in a high-cost environment: See how smart maintenance strategies can reduce energy consumption, optimize resources, and boost resilience

Peter Hendriks, Customer Care Manager, I-Care Group

17:00 - 17:30

PETRONAS Expert Solutions: advanced condition monitoring

  • PETRONAS Lubricants journey in digitalisation and condition-based preventive maintenance
  • Why real-time condition monitoring through lubricants
  • Building an accurate algorithm for failure diagnostics: digitalizing traditional experience
  • Importance of choosing the right sensor
  • Laboratory proof-of-concept & real-life application
  • Pairing with PETRONAS Expert Solutions suite of added-value services

Francesco Beltritti, Global Branded Services Manager – Technical Services, PETRONAS Lubricants International

PLANNED INVESTMENT AREAS

  • Predictive Maintenance & Analytics
  • Remote Management
  • Non-intrusive Inspection
  • Lubrication Systems & Fluid Analysis Solutions
  • Industrial Cleaning
  • HMI/SCADA
  • Worker Safety
  • Sound & Vibration Analysis
  • Augmented & Virtual Reality (AR & VR)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Mechanical Protection
  • Cybersecurity
  • MES / Shop-floor Digitization
  • Workforce Training and Development
  • Process Digitalization & Automation
  • Unified Communications / Wireless Connectivity
  • Cloud, Edge & IoT Data Management
  • Asset Lifecycle Management
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Machine & Deep Learning
  • Wearable Digital Technologies
  • Robotic Inspection & Maintenance
  • Asset Performance Management (APM 4.0)
  • Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Asset Optimization
  • Mobile/Field Worker Solutions
  • Data Analytics
  • Condition Monitoring
  • Fault detection, isolation, and recovery (FDIR)

17:30 – 18:00

Winning with Simulations: Optimizing Spare Parts the F1 Way

  • The challenge of spare part stock optimization in a global network of 65 production facilities
  • How analytics uncovered spare-part optimization needs more than forecasting
  • Using Monte Carlo simulations to model real-world uncertainty
  • Supporting daily decisions with a dashboard-driven “pitwall” approach

Koen Bothmer, Senior Data Scientist, FrieslandCampina
Shruthi Sundar, Data Scientist, FrieslandCampina

18:00 - 19:00

DRINKS RECEPTION

DAY 2

08:55 – 09:00

CHAIRPERSON’S OPENING REMARKS

09:00 – 09:30

Advanced Automation and Maintenance at Applied Medical

  • Applied Medical Introduction and Background
  • Advanced Automation for Design, Utilization & Assembly
  • Maintenance of New Build Sterilization Facility in Light of Current Regulations, Application

Johannes de Boer, Director of Maintenance and Automation, Applied Medical

09:30 – 10:00

Fostering data-driven culture to enable preventive maintenance

  • Embed data ownership and accountability across teams to ensure consistent, high-quality asset and maintenance data
  • Break silos between operations, maintenance, and IT to create shared insights and drive cross-functional decision-making
  • Promote a mindset of continuous improvement by using data as the foundation for learning and optimization
  • Invest in tools and skills that democratize data so frontline teams can access, trust, and act on insights independently

Oscar Yang, Data Governance Lead, Van Oord

10:00 - 10:30

AI that works

  • No-Code: Immediate results in 6 weeks. Energy Sector
  • Deterministic: Insight to action – Practical use in Food & Beverage Industry
  • How to Start: Practical steps to scale

Remi Goget, SVP of Technical Sales and Customer Success, Intelecy

10:35 - 11:25

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 12:00

Centrifugal Pumps and Optimization of Energy efficiency

  • 15% of the global energy is used for pumps and most pumps are not matching the system
  • Detecting the Best Efficiency Point using vibration technology
  • Prolonged economic lifetime
  • Cavitation detection and how to avoid it
  • Practical cases

Tim Sundström, Manager Technical System Development, SPM Instrument

12:00 – 12:30

The Time Has Come for Scalable Vibration Monitoring: Behavior-Based, Threshold-Less, Explainable AI for All Machines

  • From manual thresholds to scalable, explainable AI
  • Behavior-based concepts that eliminate false alarms from thresholds and supervised pattern-matching, while reducing labeling dependency
  • Sensor-agnostic and interoperable across all vendors
  • Human-in-the-loop explainability that builds trust

Dr. Rajet Krishnan, CEO & Co-Founder, Viking Analytics

12:30 – 13:00

From Insight to Impact: Asset Management Leadership with PREMA

  • Empowering decision-makers with data-driven insights across the asset lifecycle
  • Benchmarking performance across teams and sites – Identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement
  • Visualising maturity across 16 asset focus areas – helps prioritise actions and allocate resources effectively
  • Driving continuous improvement through smart metrics – Transforms benchmarking into a dynamic, ongoing process
  • Aligning strategy with ISO 55001 standards – Supports leadership in setting direction and ensuring compliance

Pat Breen, Head of Asset Care, ESS Ltd., Senior Consultant, PREMA

PLANNED INVESTMENT AREAS

  • Predictive Maintenance & Analytics
  • Remote Management
  • Non-intrusive Inspection
  • Lubrication Systems & Fluid Analysis Solutions
  • Industrial Cleaning
  • HMI/SCADA
  • Worker Safety
  • Sound & Vibration Analysis
  • Augmented & Virtual Reality (AR & VR)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Mechanical Protection
  • Cybersecurity
  • MES / Shop-floor Digitization
  • Workforce Training and Development
  • Process Digitalization & Automation
  • Unified Communications / Wireless Connectivity
  • Cloud, Edge & IoT Data Management
  • Asset Lifecycle Management
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Machine & Deep Learning
  • Wearable Digital Technologies
  • Robotic Inspection & Maintenance
  • Asset Performance Management (APM 4.0)
  • Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Asset Optimization
  • Mobile/Field Worker Solutions
  • Data Analytics
  • Condition Monitoring
  • Fault detection, isolation, and recovery (FDIR)

13:05 - 13:55

LUNCH

14:00 – 14:30

Balancing Flexibility and Reliability in Machinery

  • Flexibility enhances a machine’s ability to handle diverse tasks and changing conditions
  • Greater flexibility can introduce complexity, increasing the risk of failures
  • Reliability ensures consistent performance and reduces unexpected downtime
  • Effective design and operation strategies are needed to balance flexibility and reliability
  • Monitoring and control tools help maintain reliability while allowing operational flexibility

Yousef Rahmani, Mechanical Engineer, Process System, Alfa Laval
Torsten Fog Pedersen, Commercial Head, Connected Solutions, Alfa Laval

14:30 - 15:00

Holistic data-driven maintenance

  • Strategize your maintenance
  • Laying foundation for data quality
  • Starting simply with existing data and standardized solutions
  • Continuous learning by enriching insights

Vidya Ranade, Former Digital Director, FrieslandCampina

15:00 – 15:05

CHAIRPERSON’S CLOSE