is your business @ risk or do you want to get more out of your assets, then asset management is the perfect solution
29-07-2007
Curriculum Vitae of Rudi Saelens
Rudi Saelens graduated as a civil engineer electromechanics (VUB) and specialised in nuclear engineering ( KUL) , financial engineering (Vlekho) and business management ( Vlerick). He has more then 20 year is business experience in power generation and utility business, from gas-electricity distribution, grid-network protection, nuclear reactor engineering, maintenance of rotating machines, asset management and risk management. He has extended experience in knowledge and expert systems, project management, change management ,strategic planning and strategic problem solving. He implemented risk and asset management in the biggest power generation company in Belgium, the 2 biggest network operators in Belgium and is presently implementing asset management in a power generating company in Poland. Rudi speaks fluent Dutch, French and English he can manage in German and has basic understanding of Italian. Would you like to get in contact with Rudi Saelens for advice , sharing experience or others, please send your email to rudi.saelens@telenet.be
In recent years many companies that for their business, depend heavily on many assets or equipments, have implemented asset management capabilities. Financial institutions like banks or investment groups practice risk management and portfolio management. These methods can be applied on the management of technical equipments whether it is for individual equipment or assets or for entire fleets. Because of the privatisation of utility companies in England more then 15 years ago, competition has driven the companies to become perfect asset management companies.
Asset management is a competence that merges several capabilities; these are 1) strategy and visioning 2) investment management 3) technical management 4) asset information management
and the supporting capabilities : 1) knowledge management 2) risk management 3) change management
In order to implement asset management in a company the companies organisational structure needs to accommodate for it. This is usually a difficult but very important exercise and many companies fail to implement the correct organisational structure. A correct organisational structure will allow the asset management maturity to grow but most of all find its balanced position with other organisational units in the organisation.
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