Advice & implementation: theory and practice go hand in hand. More productivity through investments in process improvement
Every asset manager is faced with the challenge of improving efficiency. As well as increasing output and/or reducing costs and risks, ensuring professionalism and complying with legislation and regulations are also important factors. The Stork Asset Management Solutions professionals help with recommendations based on practical experience, and implementation based on an in-depth understanding of total plant operation. The result is quicker and higher returns on your investment in asset management.
From concept to completion
To effectively address all the challenges you face as asset manager, you need the fresh view of an external professional. An advisor who can draw on all his knowledge and experience to design an improvement process, but who is also able to implement that process in practice. In brief, professionals who both make recommendations and deliver on them. Stork has been putting this total approach into practice for more than 140 years. And you can also find it in the work of the Stork Asset Management Solutions professionals. Advice & Implementation means recommenda-tions based on practical experience, and implementation based on in depth understanding of total plant operation.
The goal: Global Asset Management
The Stork Asset Management Solutions professionals operate worldwide. Their integrated approach ensures that customers benefit from globally interchangeable procedures. This enables Stork Asset Management Solutions to manage improvement processes successfully, regardless of the location. Professionals who have worked on an industrial plant in the Rotterdam Europoort can switch effortlessly to another plant owned by the same customer in the Middle East, for example.
But it’s not only the availability of scarce professionals that counts. The integrated approach means that the effectiveness of installations is increased, and that improvements made at one site can be implemented seamlessly at another. That makes overall operations simpler and more effective for customers who want to manage their plants at different locations on the basis of a single, coherent vision, and to be able to benchmark the results on the basis of the same parameters.
Focus on continuous improvement
All the Stork Asset Management Solutions products and services are combined in nine solutions. Each has the same goal: to improve the performance of your installations on the basis of a long-term vision. Continuous improvement is the goal that we achieve through a proven improvement process methodology, the ‘Cold Eyes Review’. This method forms the basis for a detailed SWOT analysis. To start with, but also during evaluation milestones defined in advance, Stork Asset Management Solutions reviews projects using this proven method. The method was developed in-house, and prevents ‘tunnel vision’. The Cold Eyes Review is carried out by specialists who are not directly involved, and the knowledge, understanding and experience available at that time are constantly used to initiate further improvements. The Stork Fundamentals are also an important factor in this process. These collected Best Practices are available for every project and within all the Stork Solutions. All the Stork professionals are trained to work in terms of continuous improve-ment processes, and to capture the resulting solutions in the Stork Fundamentals. This methodology is laid down in the Contract and Project Management model.
Partnership with the customer
Bringing together theory and practice in the Stork Asset Management Solutions approach means we also make frequent and intensive use of the customer’s specific expertise. In many cases there are already improvement ideas, but customers do not have the necessary overall view or the ability to look beyond everyday operating requirements. The Cold Eyes Review therefore focuses not only on the process itself, but also on the strengths of people and the ideas within the organization. This approach contributes to effectiveness on a number of fronts. The Stork approach is based on the involvement of the organization within which we are working. That leads to broader acceptance of change, which in turn means faster results from investments.
The Stork Solutions
Strategy
Business Process & IT
Reliability & Integrity
Maintenance Management
Turnaround Management
Plant Modifications & Relocations
Project Management
Asset Utilization
Spare Parts Management
The total solutions that Stork aims to offer its customers of course depend on the specific situation. Stork’s many years of practical experience mean that any desired total solution is achievable by applying one or more of the Stork Solutions.
Methodology
Cold Eyes Review
Selection of Best Practices
Made-to-measure proposal
- resources
- people
- process
- organization
Working approach
Contract Project Management (CPM)
- methods
- manuals
Implementation
Cold Eyes Review