VDMxl Value Driven Maintenance & Asset management

European industry is ageing. Recent research shows that almost half of our industrial plants will need to be replaced between 2015 and 2025. Due to the economic crisis, few companies have the financial means to do this. Closure is imminent and life extension is often the only option to keep industrial production in the West. And this in a strongly globalising economy, with increasing competition from low-wage countries with relatively young and modern factories.

This is the new challenge for today's maintenance manager. The competitiveness of our ageing plants must be increased and maintenance alone is not enough. The technical department of the future must become an improvement engine that combines maintenance with life extension, replacements and modernisation. But how do you organise that, and not unimportantly, how do you do it in a commercially responsible way?

Following the great success of their first book "VDM, nieuw geloof in onderhouds" (VDM, new faith in maintenance), Mark Haarman and Guy Delahay have developed a new methodology that provides an answer to this question. Value Driven Maintenance & Asset Management, in short VDMxl, shows how you can add maximum economic value to an existing factory, fleet or infrastructure through maintenance, life extension and modernisation. It uses a quantitative control model, a control panel with twelve KPIs, industry-specific benchmarks and more than 50 best practices. Appealing cases from DSM, Pepsico, GlaxoSmithKline, VolvoCars and many other companies show how valuable VDMxl can be in practice.

Mark Haarman and Guy Delahay are among the trendsetters in the field of Maintenance & Asset Management. Both are well-respected speakers at international seminars and founders of Mainnovation, a leading consultancy firm specialised in Maintenance & Asset Management.