Decision makers are going through an unusual period, when the techniques that used to help them make decisions are no longer quite adequate. The uncertainty (due to COVID-19) has changed the scenario and requires different techniques. This relatively high uncertainty adds to cognitive biases that affect individual or group decisions.

Hydrogen as fuel and a new energy vector in our energy system. Hydrogen can be a key ingredient to reach carbon neutrality in Europe and an important solution to move away from fossil fuels. To explore the opportunities and risks of introducing large-scale green hydrogen production in the Netherlands, Stork initiated research called "Green Electrons for Green Hydrogen" (GE2GH2).

Is the scrum method only suitable for IT projects? Our experience is that industries can achieve better results through this form of collaboration. This has been demonstrated throughout the past decade in a range of industrial projects.

It’s not a question of whether robotics will change the face of inspection and maintenance. It’s a question of when. And, according to Stefano Stramigioli, professor of Advanced Robotics and Chair of the Robotics and Mechatronics Group at the University of Twente, the companies that pioneer research into industrial robots today, will be the market leaders of tomorrow.

Stork’s high operational standards ensure our employees continually drive to improve the performance of our client’s assets. This means that when our employees go above and beyond, we recognise this hard work and celebrate their achievements

At Stork Asset Management Solutions we aim to make knowledge, which is critical to the services that we provide, accessible. This includes both explicit knowledge (formal, codified knowledge) and tacit knowledge (expertise that a person has but that is difficult to codify).

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.

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.

Capital-intensive facilities were put into operation in the last decades of the last century and today require more preventive and corrective maintenance to maintain their operational reliability. Our clients ask us for a standardized approach to determine the best maintenance strategy in relation to the objectives of the company and management of derivative assets.

Regardless of our role in a maintenance organization, we all know that feeling of 'Am I here for SAP or is SAP here for me?'; indeed, the question is: what's in it for me?

Insufficient control over capex? Unexpected major expenses? The sentence: “that will definitely last another 10 years?” These are all good reasons to consider preparing a Long-Term Asset Replacement Plan (LTARP). I would like to use my contribution to this blog to explain what the LTARP is and what it is used for.

Maintenance is one of the pillars of asset management and plays an important role in achieving successful value in use. Over the years, many programs have been developed with maintenance improvement in mind. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Business Centered Maintenance (BCM) and Life Cycle Cost (LCC)