prof.dr. A. de Jong (Arjan)

I'm fascinated by the complexities of maintenance, especially the management of technical systems: complex, durable, capital goods and the necessary provisions, material and personnel resources, required to deliver a product or service. Managing technical services is a multi-disciplinary field of expertise at the intersection of technology, economics and organisations.

Maintenance is important because assets (and our technology-dependent society) will come to a grinding halt without it, and because it can make a substantial contribution to circularity and sustainability. To achieve availability and affordability as maintenance results, the following needs to be taken into account:

• Maintenance management, or in a broader sense Technical System Management (TSM), ensures that the complex, durable, capital goods and the necessary resources are properly organised and managed to deliver a product or service
• Maintenance technology uses innovations to improve labour conditions, and to do more with increasingly scarce labour resources
• Impact of the design of complex, durable, capital goods on the in-service phase of a technical system, especially the effects on the necessary provisions, material and personnel resources, required to deliver a product or service.

The aerospace sector is renowned for the complexity of its technical systems and the maintenance optimisations to provide services with an exceptional punctuality. And there is strong drive to improve these maintenance activities to stay competitive. The advances in aerospace maintenance technology and management are also beneficial in other industries. 

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Ancillary activities

• Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre - NLRPrincipal R&D Engineer, Maintenance and Engineering
• Netherlands Aerospace Group (NAG)Working Group Member

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University of Twente

Horst Complex (building no. 20), room W247
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
Netherlands

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