International Learning Network for Multi-Site Maintenance Managers

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A European peer network for professionals managing maintenance, reliability and asset performance across multiple sites, countries or business units.

Free for BEMAS members

Het beheer van infrastructurele assets is een hele uitdaging. Er moet voldaan worden aan steeds hogere eisen met betrekking tot beschikbaarheid en betrouwbaarheid, terwijl het budget beperkt blijft. Het is dan ook zaak om tijdig de oorzaak van problemen op te sporen en op te lossen. Daarnaast moet door een gepast onderhoud ook het ontstaan van problemen voorkomen worden. Om dit correct te kunnen doen, is het erg belangrijk om een correcte inschatting te kunnen maken van de toestand van de gehele infrastructuur.  We moeten daarom de onderliggende risico’s en de effecten hiervan in kaart brengen. 

In 2022 heeft BEMAS, samen met collega’s uit infrastructuurbedrijven in Vlaanderen en Zuid-Nederland reeds de grootste noden en beschikbare oplossingen voor Asset Management, Asset Performance Management en Asset Investment Planning in kaart gebracht. Er werden toen modellen opgemaakt, enerzijds om strategische onderhouds- en vervangingsinvesteringen te doen, anderzijds om korte- en langetermijnplanning en opvolging van de assetinvestering te beheren met aandacht voor een financiële balans voor OPEX en CAPEX.

Omdat infrastructuurbeheer geen statische activiteit is, en ook externe factoren blijvend voor nieuwe uitdagingen blijven zorgen, brengt BEMAS ook dit jaar verschillende infrabedrijven samen om de laatste trends en uitdagingen in Asset Management te analyseren. De focus zal liggen op het in kaart brengen van de noden voor het behalen van ISO 5500x-normen en op een juiste benadering van de markt van toeleveranciers en stakeholders.

Ongetwijfeld herken je vele van bovenstaande uitdagingen. BEMAS, de Belgische non-profit vereniging rond maintenance en asset management, nodigt jou daarom uit om deel te nemen aan een lerend netwerk “Asset Management in Infrastructuur”. 

Bedoeling is om samen met collega’s uit andere infrastructuurbedrijven in Vlaanderen en Zuid-Nederland een beter begrip te krijgen van de noden en beschikbare oplossingen voor Asset Management, Asset Performance Management en Asset Investment Planning. 

 

Programme

1. Prepare and get inspired: Join these webinars

In the run-up to the live session, BEMAS is organising several webinars that touch on themes relevant to Multi-Site Maintenance Managers.

Participation in these webinars gives you additional input that can be brought into the discussions during the Learning Network.

Programma

Sessie 1 – dinsdag 25 april: Aquafin, Aartselaar

Hoe Asset Health en Long Term Asset Plan integreren met een EAM systeem?

Deze lezing zal de belangrijke rol bespreken van het integreren van asset health met een Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systeem en levenscyclusplannen. We zullen kijken naar welke asset health data er wordt gecollecteerd, hoe deze geïmplementeerd kan worden in Maximo MAHI, hoe erover gerapporteerd kan worden en hoe levenscyclusplannen kunnen worden opgezet.

Het uiteindelijke doel om een is om een lange termijn financieel plan te maken om de waarde van het patrimonium in stand te houden.

  • Wie is wie?
  • Presentatie
    • Luc Verhoest, Asset Manager RWZI & Sliblijnen
    • Danny Verhulst, Asset Beheerder
  • Groepsgesprek: Hoe gaat jullie bedrijf om met Asset Health?
  • Voorstelling van het vervolg van het AIP programma

Sessie 2 – woensdag 20 september 2023: Agentschap Wegen en Verkeer, Gent

De roadmap naar ISO55.000

  • Interactieve presentatie: "Asset Management bij MoW" door Gerben Van Neyghem, Specialist Asset Management @ Agentschap Wegen en Verkeer
    • Waarom is MoW gestart met Asset management
    • Wat waren de eerste stappen?
    • Hoe is het SAMP tot stand gekomen?
    • Hoe wordt het Asset Managent Masterplan uitgevoerd bij AWV en wat zijn de volgende stappen?
  • Interactieve presentatie "De roadmap naar ISO55.000" door Peter Decaigny, Partner @Mainnovation
    • Korte toelichting over de ISO 55000
    • Achtergrond
    • ISO55000, ISO55001, ISO55002, ISO55010 (draft)
    • de onderdelen / hoofdstukken van de ISO 55000x (en de relatie met ISO 9000)
    • Gap analye
      • wat is een gap analyse hoe loopt dit
      • hoe zelf dit uitvoeren
      • hoe gaps elimineren
    • Certificatieprocess     
      • hoe je certifiëren
      • wat zijn de ervaringen met certificatie
      • wat zijn de evoluties in de vragen en vereisten die worden gesteld door de auditors?

Sessie 3 - donderdag 30 november 2024: Waterlink, Walem

Het opvolgen van onderhoudsplanning, -kosten en asset prestaties

  • Presentatie door Waterlink: Asset Management Prestatie en dashboarding bij Waterlink 
    - intro Waterlink
    - Asset Management bij Waterlink
    - Dashboards voor het opvolgen van planning en kosten
    - Roadmap naar meten en opvolgen van asset prestatie
     
  • Groepsgesprek
     - Hoe wordt onderhoudsplanning opgevolgd?
     - Hoe worden onderhoudskosten opgevolgd?
     - Hoe kunnen asset prestaties opgevolgd worden?
     
  • Bezoek aan productiecentrum Walem

Sessie 4 – woensdag 8 mei 2024: De watergroep, Leuven

KPI’s beheren en Modelleringsmodel voor ageing assets

  • Inleiding door Peter Decaigny
  • KPI’s beheren? Kan je leren! Lessen uit Leakie (Sofie Beerts, De Watergroep)
  • Modelleringsmodel voor het in kaart brengen van de veroudering van de assets (Sofie Beerts, De Watergroep, Bram Calle, Hydroscan en Lotte Devisscher, Deloitte)

2. Live Learning Network Session at Asset Performance

Thursday 19 November 2026 | Antwerp

During Asset Performance, Multi-Site Managers will have their own dedicated morning programme combining practical asset-owner cases, technology perspectives and facilitated peer discussions.

09:00 | Welcome & introductions

Meet the other Multi-Site Managers participating in the Learning Network and introduce the main questions for the morning.

09:10 | Multi-site and multi-year maintenance contracts at TotalEnergies

Jos Vermylen | TotalEnergies

How do you organise maintenance when activities are distributed across different business units and sites?

TotalEnergies will share how local maintenance organisations are supported by central expertise, common maintenance methodologies, digital programmes and group-wide contractual approaches.

The presentation will explore how a common maintenance methodology is translated into contracts and daily practice. Uniformity is supported through common digital tools, comparable contractual approaches and central follow-up, while sites retain the flexibility required by their individual operations.

Particular attention will be paid to multi-site and multi-year maintenance contracts and the development of long-term relationships with contractors.

Topics include:

  • organising maintenance between central functions and local sites;
  • translating a common maintenance methodology into contracts;
  • deciding when multi-site contracts create value and when local contracts remain preferable;
  • using common digital tools and governance;
  • developing contractors as long-term partners;
  • using performance mechanisms and continuous improvement within contracts;
  • improving maintenance productivity, including hands-on-tool time;
  • transferring improvements and lessons learned between sites.

09:30 | AI-driven scalable and automated global contractor management

Roy Jeunen | NineID

As organisations operate across more sites, contractor management can quickly become fragmented.

Individual locations may use different onboarding processes and maintain separate information on certificates, insurance, qualifications, access rights and compliance requirements. This creates significant administrative work while limiting central visibility.

NineID will explore how digitalisation and AI-driven automation can support a more scalable contractor-management approach.

How can organisations create common contractor standards, centralise information and automate administrative processes while still respecting local requirements, regulations and operational judgement?

09:50 | Roundtable — Standardise or localise?

After the presentations, participants will compare their own approaches in facilitated roundtable discussions.

We will explore questions including:

  • Which elements of maintenance and contractor management should be standardised across sites?
  • Which elements should deliberately remain flexible at site level?
  • When do multi-site contracts create value and where are local contracts preferable?
  • Which contractor information should be available centrally and in real time?
  • Which processes should be automated first?
  • Where does human or local judgement remain essential?
  • How can contractor performance and continuous improvement be managed across several sites?
  • How can improvements achieved at one location be transferred to other sites?

10:30 | Break

Break

11:00 | From a common maintenance methodology to consistent execution across sites

Peter Decaigny and/or Jaén Sinnaeve

Contracts are only one part of multi-site maintenance management. Organisations also need to determine how maintenance itself should be organised across different locations.

How do you introduce a common methodology without imposing a rigid one-size-fits-all model? How do you determine whether it is actually being applied? How do you compare performance between sites? And how do you make scarce specialist expertise available to several locations?

The presentation will address:

  • establishing a shared maintenance methodology across sites;
  • defining what should be applied uniformly and where adaptation remains appropriate;
  • translating methodology into day-to-day maintenance practice;
  • monitoring implementation through meaningful KPIs;
  • using comparable data to identify performance differences and improvement opportunities;
  • sharing specialist knowledge and expertise across locations;
  • organising collaboration between central experts and local maintenance teams;
  • managing deviations from the common approach;
  • scaling successful practices from one site to another.

Additional asset-owner perspective: OQ

The discussion also connects with the transformation journey presented at Asset Performance by Attila Kiss, Strategic Asset Performance Principal at OQ, and his colleagues:

“Turning reliability into a measurable EBITDA driver: A structured asset management transformation at OQ RPI.”

OQ will share how it has evolved from fragmented and largely reactive reliability initiatives towards a more integrated Asset Management approach, explicitly connecting reliability with operational availability, risk, lifecycle cost and ultimately EBITDA.

The case adds an important dimension to the Multi-Site discussion: creating common methodologies and governance is not an objective in itself. Ultimately, the organisation must be able to demonstrate that its way of working produces measurable operational and business value.

OQ has also expressed interest in further exploring these questions with participants, making their experience a valuable perspective for the peer discussion.

11:45 | Roundtable & exercise — From standardisation to measurable performance

The morning concludes with an interactive exercise bringing the different perspectives together.

Participants will:

  • compare how different organisations organise standardisation across sites;
  • discuss which KPIs provide meaningful insight into actual implementation;
  • explore how scarce maintenance and reliability expertise can be shared effectively;
  • discuss where common methodologies create value and where local autonomy remains necessary;
  • examine how lessons learned can be transferred between sites;
  • discuss how common maintenance approaches can ultimately contribute to availability, risk reduction, lifecycle cost and business performance.

12:30 | End of the Multi-Site Managers Learning Network session

End

Make more of your visit to Antwerp

The Learning Network session takes place within the wider Asset Performance Conference on 18 & 19 November 2026 in Antwerp.

Participants who wish to extend their programme have several options.

1. Optional: Wednesday Evening Keynote & Walking Dinner

Arriving in Antwerp the evening before the Multi-Site Managers session?

You can join the Asset Performance Evening Keynote and Walking Dinner on Wednesday 18 November.

Sending Spare Parts to Mars is a Bad Business Case

Dr. Stefaan De Mey | European Space Agency (ESA)

Space exploration takes familiar maintenance and asset-management challenges to an extreme.

When spare parts, specialist intervention and immediate repairs are no longer readily available, reliability, autonomy, lifecycle management and risk management become mission-critical.

Dr. Stefaan De Mey will use lessons from human and robotic space exploration to challenge the way industrial organisations think about reliability and long-term asset performance.

The keynote is followed by a walking dinner and networking evening, providing an additional opportunity to meet conference participants, speakers and fellow maintenance and reliability professionals.

A separate evening participation option is available.

2. Optional: join the complete Asset Performance Conference

You can also extend your Learning Network participation to the full Asset Performance Conference on Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 November 2026.

Asset Performance brings together more than 300 maintenance, reliability, asset management and digitalisation professionals from across Europe to exchange practical experience on improving reliability, cost performance and operational resilience.

Alongside the Multi-Site Managers Learning Network, the 2026 programme includes tracks and sessions on topics such as:

  • Agentic AI in Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Management;
  • Condition Monitoring & Asset Health Assessment;
  • Reliability & Maintenance Strategies & Methodologies;
  • Asset Data Management;
  • Predictive & Prescriptive Maintenance;
  • Asset Performance & Cost Management;
  • Data-driven Asset Management;
  • Human-Centric Leadership & Cultural Change;
  • Asset Risk Management.

A full conference ticket gives access to both conference days, workshops, demo experiences, breakfast sessions, the Wednesday evening keynote and walking dinner, and the Thursday closing reception.

Discover the complete programme and participation options on www.assetperformance.eu

Who should join this Learning Network?

This Learning Network is designed for professionals responsible for maintenance, reliability, asset management or operational excellence across multiple sites, business units, countries or regions.

Typical participants include:

  • European, Regional or Global Maintenance Managers; 
  • Multi-Site and Group Maintenance Managers; 
  • Regional or Group Reliability Leaders; 
  • Asset Management Leaders with responsibilities across several locations; 
  • Engineering and Technical Managers with multi-site responsibilities; 
  • Operational Excellence Managers; 
  • Maintenance Excellence or Maintenance Strategy Leaders; 
  • professionals responsible for central maintenance methodologies, digital maintenance platforms or contractor strategies. 

The network is particularly relevant for organisations that are trying to create greater consistency across sites while recognising that different countries, plants and operating environments cannot always be managed in exactly the same way.

Participants from across Europe are invited to exchange experiences, approaches and lessons learned. The objective is not to promote one universal model, but to understand which practices can be scaled successfully across an organisation and where local autonomy remains necessary.

What is expected of participants?

Come prepared to discuss how your organisation manages maintenance across sites, countries or business units.

You do not need to have the “perfect” multi-site maintenance model. On the contrary, the roundtables are intended to explore the choices, challenges and trade-offs organisations encounter when trying to create greater consistency across sites.

We encourage you to share and compare how organisations deal with differences in maintenance maturity, local regulations, contractor markets, organisational structures and site autonomy while still working towards common group-level objectives.

Pactical information

Language
English

Live session
Thursday 19 November 2026
09:00–12:30

Location
Flanders Meeting & Convention Center Antwerp
Antwerp, Belgium

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