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During Major Risks and Accidents Directive (Dutch: BRZO) inspections, the topic of “ageing” is frequently on the agenda. The Dutch website BRZO+ states that "for years, aging in Europe has been the main cause of accidents." The Netherlands is no exception.
In my work, I often come into contact with customers who feel that maintenance can be better and, above all, cheaper. Then there are those customers who are fine with everything and see maintenance more as a necessary evil. In this blog I will explain the usefulness and necessity of having a substantiated maintenance concept and how it can be managed.
Stork was involved in the hook-up and commissioning of many assets in the North Sea, delivering what could be called ‘traditional’ fabric maintenance services, such as painting, blasting and scaffolding, at the time.
The quality of data is a difficult concept; you can approach it intuitively: for example data that is ‘good'. But it quickly becomes trickier when there are several users of the same data, and trickier still if each one of these users wants to achieve different goals with that data.
Over the past years, I have worked for various companies that, after years of carrying out reactive maintenance, wanted to take the step forward to performing maintenance at a planned level. In this blog I'd like to share some of my experiences from these change processes.