30th - 31st October 2025

Agenda

DAY 1

08:00 – 08:50

REGISTRATION

08:55 – 09:00

CHAIRPERSON’S OPENING REMARKS

09:00 - 09:30

Asset Health Check: Measure the Health of your Assets to define your 5 year investment plan

A systematic, structured approach which involves Technical, Quality & Food Safety, Human Safety, Legal and operational experts in the evaluation of assets. Defining approx. 25%-50% of our investment agenda.
Back to the basics: Maintain where possible, replace what’s required

  • From a local initiative to a global signature process within Mars Inc.
  • The Critical Succes Factor: Associate knowledge and experience.
  • Historical data is crucial, but sometimes only supportive
  • How to prioritize within a site, but also within the European region (10 sites).

Erik Grakist, Technical Manager, Mars Wrigley

09:30 - 10:00

Predictive Maintenance: Leveraging data for our cold forming lines

  • Introducing PHILIPS Drachten and the industrial environment
  • Our journey to predictive maintenance
  • The solution and methodologies applied
  • The results and lessons learned

Bas Snijders, Program Manager Public-Private Partnerships, Philips Drachten

10:00 - 10:30

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

10:35 - 11:25

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 - 12:00

Curing the “Everything is Urgent” Production Syndrome in Today’s Industry 4.0 Era!

Teamwork between maintenance and production can be achieved by implementing the followings:

  • Fundamental causes of the syndrome
  • Potential remedies
  • Setting the vision at the Plant manager level
  • Restoring the confidence between maintenance and production with a multi-week schedule outlook.
  • Making an agreement between maintenance and production on when the work must be done to prevent equipment failure that is clearly communicated to everybody involved.
  • Identifying Potential failure intervals and risks of failure based on AI predictive analytics, or experience.
  • Ensuring the work required to prevent equipment failure is always done on time.
  • Measuring compliance of the maintenance and production time execution agreements, in order to maximize trust and teamwork between maintenance and production

Jean Charbonneau, President, iVisual

12:00 - 12:30

HOW TO LEVERAGE DIGITALIZATION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO SECURE YOUR MAINTENANCE INVESTMENTS

  • Connecting Maintenance to the core business drivers
  • Leveraging Production process improvements
  • How to integrate asset data with production and maintenance
  • Role of digital tools and devices in maintenance and production

Dr. Marcel Mourits, VP Expert Digital Manufacturing, CGI

12:30 - 13:00

Predictive & Preventive Maintenance - Risk minimization through targeted best practice reliability engineering for optimum system availability

  • Use of predictive maintenance in the mix of different maintenance strategies
  • From concepts to practical applications
  • Sensor overkill – how condition monitoring creates P&L impacts
  • Prioritizing reliability problems to target the most important ones for your business

Hannes Pasemann, Partner, ConMoto Strategie und Realisierung GmbH

13:05 - 13:55

LUNCH

14:00 - 14:30

Asset & Maintenance Management

  • Using 5S approach in anchoring Asset and Maintenance Management Strategy
  • Importance of early equipment management
  • Master data for CMMS
  • Maintenance of Legacy Equipment/Machinery

Darko Palalic, Strategic Plant Maintenance Senior Manager, Carlsberg Supply Company Danmark A/S

14:30 – 15:00

THE LINK BETWEEN WORLD CLASS ASSET MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY, INCREASING ASSET LIFE CYCLES TO IMPROVE SUSTAINABILITY USING CURRENT ASSET MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORKS

  • Maintenance Strategy
  • Maintenance Concepts
  • Maintenance Maturity
  • Maintenance Policy
  • How to embark on the Maintenance Maturity Journey

Jens Ulrik Gullacksen, Head of Maintenance, MAN Energy Solution

15:00 – 15:30

AMM – Agile Maintenance Manager, WHEN THE PM MEETS PM

  • Power skills
  • Neuromanagement
  • Pragmatics of communication
  • Active listening
  • Persuasion
  • Effective delegation

Mauro Pinna, Maintenance Manager, Alfagomma Group

15:35 - 16:25

COFFEE BREAK

16:30 - 17:00

Integrating Energy Efficiency with Predictive Maintenance Strategies for Sustainable Manufacturing

  • Nanoprecise’s AI+physics-driven solutions detect issues early, shifting Maintenance from reactive to proactive and enhancing financial, environmental, and operational benefits.
  • Energy-Centered Maintenance goes beyond Reliability-Centered Maintenance by reducing energy waste while optimizing operations making it ideal for less critical equipment.
  • Explore our 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.

Qais Aldababneh, Regional Sales Manager, Nanoprecise Sci Corp

17:00 - 17:30

TPM 3 year progression at Bonfiglioli

  • Bonfiglioli Company
  • Experiences in implementing lean with the help of digitalization
  • TPM: what is TPM in Bonfiglioli Company
  • Our goal and our target

Giovanni Polosa, Global Manufacturing Director, Bonfiglioli

17:35 - 18:30

DRINKS RECEPTION

DAY 2

08:55 – 09:00

CHAIRPERSON’S OPENING REMARKS

09:00 – 09:30

Transforming the organisation to shape the new tomorrow, a session to discuss the change management part of implementing condition monitoring and AI technologies.

  • Condition monitoring techniques.
  • AI pilot project made in Nordic Sugar Nakskov
  • Challenges of transforming the organisation
  • A take on how to evolve in practice
  • Conclusion
  • Q&A

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

09:30 – 10:00

Pharma in the time of Digital Manufacturing - how Process Analytics can turn challenges into opportunities.

  • Digitalization as great opportunity in Pharma
  • Strategy on digital manufacturing
  • Process Analytics as priority on manufacturing in Pharma
  • MVA as a process analytics technology to improve reliability
  • Early AI application in Pharma Supply Chain instead of Adoption of Machine Learning algorithms in the Pharma

Jose Antoranz, Digital Manufacturing Manager, Johnson & Johnson
Dr. Gerolamo Carboni, Scientist – Process Modelling Lead, Johnson & Johnson

10:00 - 10:30

Harnessing No-Code AI for Enhanced Industrial Reliability

  • Simplifying AI adoption: Easy model building for increased operational reliability and sustainability compliance
  • Empowering frontline Workers: Involving them in AI integration fosters successful deployment and continuous improvement
  • Utilizing AI for predictive maintenance: Predictive analytics help organizations anticipate maintenance needs, enhance product quality, and meet sustainability goals

Charles-Emmanuel Frenoy, VP Southern Europe, Intelecy

10:35 - 11:25

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 12:00

Predictive maintenance solutions for electric machines: Enging’s deterministic approach

  • Online monitoring of electric machines
  • Non Invasive and deterministic approach, exclusively based on electric variables measurements
  • No need of historical data or learning periods
  • Easily integrated into existing monitoring platforms

Gualter Sampaio, CSO, Enging Make Solutions, SA

12:00 – 12:30

Key Success Factors for an Effective Digital PdM Strategy

  • Discover how to revolutionize your maintenance operations using I-care’s “Analyze, Manage, Connect, Collect” methodology
  • Collect high-quality data from various sources to ensure accurate insights
  • Seamlessly connect systems and IoT devices for comprehensive data integration
  • Apply advanced analytics to predict potential failures and gain actionable insights
  • Manage with a clear strategy, setting KPIs and continuously improving processes
  • Join our presentation to learn how these success factors can minimize downtime and optimize your maintenance strategy for maximum efficiency

Andrew Blair, Customer Care Manager, I-care Group

12:30 – 13:00

The role of advanced condition monitoring in achieving a balance between operational effectiveness and sustainability

  • Advantages of sensors over traditional condition monitoring techniques
  • Performance of different sensors in the field and laboratory
  • Safe and Sustainable by Design methodology and its relevance for maintenance and operations
  • Role of advanced sensors in supporting fluid redesign to meet performance needs whilst reducing impact on users and the environment

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

13:05 - 13:55

LUNCH

14:00 – 14:30

Predictive Aircraft Maintenance: Roles and Challenges for AI and Data

  • Data- driven prognostics of remaining-useful-life of aircraft systems
  • Optimization of maintenance decisions using prognostics
  • Remaining challenges and potential solutions for data-driven predictive maintenance
  • Industry-University collaboration paths towards predictive maintenance

This presentation will give an outlook on predictive maintenance in commercial aviation based on the presenter’s recent works, focusing on the application of data-driven models and AI methods. The remaining challenges and potential solution approaches will be discussed based on university-industry collaborations to realize predictive maintenance in various industrial assets.

Dr. Juseong Lee, Assistant Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology

14:30 - 15:00

We are we still in the dark when it comes to data? Keeping the lights off to keep the lights on.

  • What to do when there is no data – we are at the start of life of our Offshore assets
  • Sometimes we have too much data and are still in the dark. How we create light at TenneT
  • How can we transform our data into usable information using AI
  • How we ensure our data collection is repeatable and at lowest risk – introducing “Sparky”, our version of BOLT

Graeme Phibbs, Operations and Maintenance Excellence Advisor, Tennet
Joost de Vreugd , Lead Operations and Maintenance Engineering, Tennet

15:00 – 15:05

CHAIRPERSON’S CLOSE