Jos Van der Aelst

Expertise: Asset and Maintenance Management Consultancy

Jos is Stork's Asset and Maintenance Management Consultancy expert. He possesses in-depth knowledge of the relationships between the various domains of Asset and Maintenance Management solutions. You can contact Jos with any questions about maintenance strategy and setting up maintenance processes and maintenance management organizations. He provides all-in solutions to support customers – on an integrated basis and with the right team players. "The implementation of Asset and Maintenance Management solutions is more than just providing access to best practices", says Jos. "For change processes to succeed, it's essential to take cultural aspects into account, and to ensure buy-in to vision and strategy. Our task is to advise and support customers in those processes, so they can work towards improvement and higher effectiveness."

Key competences Clear focus on all aspects of maintenance management Flexibility Able to influence people Team player Helps colleagues to develop their skills Focus on solutions Inspires enthusiasm Best practices Manufacturing company Energy industry Manufacturing industry

Objectives "My personal aim is to further increase my knowledge. The challenge for Stork is to make optimal use of the available knowledge in the company, and to apply it in our customer relationships. It's important to embed knowledge in the organization in a structured and standardized way, but the diversity we have in terms of knowledge, expertise and experience has to contribute to ensuring that we continue to evolve. Finding the right balance between company and individual development and building up knowledge; that's the challenge. It's what strengthens you as a company in general, and as a knowledge center in particular."

Manufacturing company

Together with the operational management, we drew up a maintenance strategy for a company with several plants. The mission, vision and goals of maintenance were identified and shared on a company-wide basis. The processes and organization were defined in accordance with the goals. Achieving a reliable maintenance function has led to a significant reduction of the manufacturing costs per unit of product.

Energy industry

This involved defining and setting up a totally new maintenance organization for a company in the energy industry, with the ability to carry out maintenance right from the moment that a new installation becomes operational. Key attention points were defining maintenance concepts, setting up a maintenance information system, organizing knowledge transfer, defining spare part stocks, contracting third parties and setting up and staffing the operational maintenance organization.

Manufacturing industry

For a manufacturing company, the effectiveness and efficiency of maintenance were improved by implementing a plant-output measurement methodology and a workflow process. By recognizing the importance of cultural aspects and carefully taking them into account in the implementation of best practices, these changes in working methods make a successful and sustainable contribution to the operational result.