Partnerships
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World Class Maintenance Consortium
STORK Asset management Solutions participates in the WCMC, a World Class Maintenance Consortium for cross-industry knowledge sharing & joint MRO project execution with participation from Logistics Center Woensdrecht, Schelde Naval Shipbuilding, Gasunie, Essent Energy, Wärtsilä, Bosch Rexroth, NedTrain, STORK and strong connections with Technical Universities and other knowledge institutes.
Goals & Ambitions World Class Maintenance Consortium
The concrete objective of the consortium is to improve the asset performance and life cycle costs of installed base in the Netherlands, ensure that the Dutch turnover in global maintenance activities increases (export) and promoting international growth of MRO business executed in the Netherlands (import).
By developing new strategies, joint project execution, new products, processes and business propositions will be created. In addition a business driven research program is under construction together with universities. WCMC's aim is to help to create a competitive support environment in the Netherlands for production plants and operators, with sustainable business and employment growth.
The World Class Maintenance Consortium started of locally with industry parties in the south of Netherlands via the program "Pieken in de Delta" (Ministry of Economic Affairs) and is expanding national. The motto is think global, start local. The joint projects 2007/2008 have a volume of two and a half million euros. Ambitions are to set up a program for 4-6 years with a serious research budget.