Multi-Site Asset Performance Community - First Session
How do you create a common maintenance approach across multiple sites without imposing a rigid one-size-fits-all model?
Which activities should be standardised or centralised? Where should sites retain autonomy? How do you manage contractors across locations, compare performance and transfer successful practices from one plant to another?
These questions are at the heart of the first live meeting of the Multi-Site Asset Performance Community, taking place during Asset Performance 2026.
The morning combines practical asset-owner cases, technology perspectives and facilitated peer discussions for maintenance, reliability and asset leaders with multi-site responsibilities.
Rather than simply listening to presentations, participants will be invited to compare their own approaches, challenges and experiences with peers facing similar questions.
A dedicated morning for multi-site asset leaders
Presentation & Roundtable: Multi-site maintenance contracts & scalable contractor management
09:00–10:45
How do you organise maintenance and contractor management when activities are spread across different plants, business units or countries?
Jos Vermylen of TotalEnergies will share how common maintenance methodologies, central expertise, digital tools and group-wide contractual approaches can support local maintenance organisations.
Particular attention will be given to multi-site and multi-year maintenance contracts: when they create value, where local contracting remains preferable and how contractors can become long-term partners in continuous improvement.
Roy Jeunen of NineID will add the digital perspective, exploring how organisations can create common contractor standards and use automation and AI to manage onboarding, qualifications, certificates, access rights and compliance requirements at scale.
The presentations are followed by a facilitated roundtable around one central question:
What should you standardise across sites — and what should deliberately remain local?
Topics include contractor governance, digitalisation, performance management, local autonomy and transferring improvements between sites.
Presentation & Roundtable: Creating a uniform maintenance methodology across sites
11:15–13:00
Contracts are only one element of multi-site maintenance management.
The second session looks at the broader challenge of establishing a shared maintenance methodology across multiple locations and turning that methodology into consistent day-to-day execution.
How do you determine what should be applied uniformly? How do you monitor whether the methodology is actually being used? Which KPIs allow meaningful comparison between sites? And how can scarce maintenance and reliability expertise be shared effectively across the organisation?
Jan Sinaeve and/or Peter Decaigny will explore practical approaches to methodology deployment, governance, benchmarking, competence sharing and scaling successful practices between sites.
The discussion will also connect with the Asset Performance transformation case presented by Attila Kiss and his colleagues at OQ, who will show how reliability can be connected explicitly with operational availability, risk, lifecycle cost and ultimately EBITDA.
The key message: standardisation is not an objective in itself. It needs to contribute to measurable operational and business performance.
The morning concludes with a facilitated peer exercise in which participants compare their own approaches and discuss where common methodologies create value, where local autonomy remains necessary and how improvements can be transferred between sites.
This introductory session is free of charge for eligible multi-site leaders and offers a first opportunity to experience the Community and help shape its future agenda.
To safeguard open and relevant peer exchange, participation in the Community itself is reserved for multi-site asset leaders and is subject to approval.
More than two conference sessions
The morning also marks the start of the Multi-Site Asset Performance Community.
During the discussions, participants will be invited to share both:
- What they can give — experience, practices or lessons learned that could help other multi-site leaders.
- What they would like to take — challenges or questions they would value discussing with peers.
This Give & Take exercise will help identify the topics that matter most to the group and will be used to shape the future programme of the Community.
Potential themes could include multi-site governance, benchmarking, maintenance maturity, EAM/CMMS harmonisation, AI and predictive maintenance, competence management, MRO optimisation, lifecycle investment decisions and cross-site knowledge transfer.
Who should participate?
The morning is intended specifically for professionals with genuine maintenance, reliability or asset management responsibilities across multiple sites, countries, regions or business units.
Typical participants include:
- Group or Corporate Maintenance Managers;
- Global or Regional Reliability Managers;
- Group or Corporate Asset Managers;
- Heads of Maintenance & Reliability;
- Engineering and Technical Leaders with multi-site responsibilities;
- Asset Performance leaders responsible for several plants or operating companies.
To safeguard open and relevant peer exchange, participation in the Community itself is reserved for multi-site asset leaders and is subject to approval.
Make the most of your visit to Antwerp
The Community meeting takes place within the wider Asset Performance Conference on 18 & 19 November 2026.
After the Multi-Site programme finishes at 13:00, participants are welcome to remain at Asset Performance for the Thursday afternoon programme, with further practical industry cases, the Demo Experience, networking and the closing keynote.
Participants who want to make a full conference visit of their trip to Antwerp can also choose one of the extended participation options:
- Arrive the evening before: Participate in the Wednesday Evening Programme
- Experience the complete Asset Performance Conference
Interested in continuing after Antwerp?
The Antwerp meeting is the starting point of a year-round peer-learning community.
Participants who want to continue exchanging experience after Asset Performance can join the Multi-Site Asset Performance Community annual programme, including three online peer sessions, an annual live meeting, access to the Asset Performance Intelligence Hub and a private space for ongoing exchange between members.
Ready to join the first meeting?
Request your place and meet other multi-site maintenance, reliability and asset leaders facing the same challenges.
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