Workshop: Digitalisation and AI in Asset Management: Building Your Roadmap and Turning It into Action
For many maintenance and asset management teams, digitalisation, automation and AI offer clear opportunities, but also raise difficult questions. The challenge is often not the lack of technology, but knowing where to start, how to set priorities, and how to ensure that digital transformation creates tangible value for your department.
Without a clear roadmap, initiatives can remain fragmented, disconnected from operational needs, or difficult to translate into measurable results. You may be looking for a way to link digital ambitions to better asset reliability, more efficient maintenance processes and smarter decision-making.
In this workshop, you explore how to kick-start your digitalisation or automation journey, how to define an actionable roadmap for asset management, and how to recognise the key pitfalls, success factors and value levers. Practical exercises help you reflect on your own context and translate the workshop content into first concrete steps. You also discover how AI can already support your operations today, allowing you to leave with ideas and insights that you can apply in your own organisation.
Content of the workshop
Where to start with digitalisation
- Transition towards Maintenance 5.0
- How to ensure AI is naturally embedded in that journey
How to set up an actionable roadmap
- Key building blocks for a digital and AI roadmap for asset management
Pitfalls and challenges of digital journeys
- Typical issues when defining and executing a roadmap
- How to address these challenges effectively
Exercise: starting your roadmap
- Interactive exercise to outline a first draft of a roadmap adapted to your context
Exercise: first steps into implementing AI in your organisation
- How to make your AI reliability engineer or AI technician support
During this workshop, you gain a clearer view of how to turn digitalisation and AI into practical enablers for maintenance and asset management. You learn how to build a realistic roadmap, avoid common pitfalls, and identify the first concrete steps that create value in your own organisation. Join this workshop to strengthen your digital journey with a pragmatic and results-oriented approach.
Practical information
12:30 Reception
13:30 Start of the workshop
16:30 Conclusion & Networking drink
About the speaker
Anthony Van Heymbeeck is Manager at PwC and brings expertise in Digital Strategy & Transformation, Value Creation, Operational Excellence, and Asset Management & Reliability. Drawing on this broad experience, he helps organisations translate digital ambitions into practical improvement roadmaps that support business performance, operational effectiveness and long-term asset value.
Target Audience
This workshop is intended for professionals with strategic decision-making responsibility in maintenance, asset management and operations, such as asset managers, plant managers, technical directors and maintenance managers with strategic scope. It is not aimed at purely operational or day-to-day maintenance roles. To preserve the interactive workshop format, registrations may be reviewed against the intended audience profile.
To ensure a valuable exchange for all participants, registrations will be reviewed by PwC against the intended target audience. PwC and BEMAS therefore reserve the right to decline registrations that do not fit the scope of the workshop. As the session is organised and hosted by PwC, competitors of PwC are advised not to register.
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