dr.ir. W. Haanstra (Willem)

Willem is an Assistant Professor in the chair of Asset Management & Maintenance Engineering at the Engineering Technology faculty of the University of Twente.

Willem’s research broadly focuses on Sustainable Asset Management. This corresponds closely with Life Cycle Engineering, an engineering perspective that can best be described as the assessment and improvement of the entire life cycle of products and physical systems, to make them more sustainable with respect to people, planet, and profit.

Relevant research areas include Sustainable capital asset and product design; Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for evaluating environmental and social impacts; Life Cycle Costing and Life Cycle Valuation (LCC and LCV) for assessing financial viability and value creation; Maintenance Engineering methods for optimizing reliability, availability, functionality and extending lifespans; The Circular Economy for organizing closed material and re-use cycles and supply chains at the end-of-life; And strategic decision-making as part of Asset Management.

As a researcher with a background in Industrial Design Engineering, Willem likes to bridge the worlds of theory and practice by asking and answering ‘how can?’ type questions, often in close collaboration with partners from industry. Previous collaborations include partners from the manufacturing, energy, and transportation sectors.

Other roles:

Coordinator of the MEO specialisation

Business & Economics

# Asset Management
# Assets
# Life Cycle
# Life Cycle Assessment
# Life Cycle Thinking

Engineering & Materials Science

# Life Cycle
# Sustainable Development

Earth & Environmental Sciences

# Life Cycle

Faculty of Engineering Technology (ET), Asset Management & Maintenance Engineering (AMME)

Cannappah, C. , Haanstra, W. , & Braaksma, J. (Accepted/In press). Understanding the goals and needs for the use of eco-labels in the European railway sector. Paper presented at 31st CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, LCE 2024, Turin, Italy.

Holwerda, H. , Haanstra, W. , & Braaksma, J. (2023). Design principles for successful adoption of life cycle thinking in asset management decision-making. Paper presented at 30th EurOMA Conference "A Systems Lens on Operations" 2023, Leuven, Belgium.

Ramtahalsing, M. M. (2023). Enabling Inter-organizational Change Integration in Sociotechnical Systems: Systems Thinking Applied in the Dutch Railway Systems. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036558303

Jakubeit, N. (2023). Coordinated interorganizational decision-making: Dealing with project complexity in the Dutch Railway context. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036555937

Ramtahalsing, M. , Haanstra, W. , Braaksma, J. , Rajabalinejad, M. , & van Dongen, L. (2023). MOSAIC: A Structured Multidisciplinary Analysis for Managing the Integration of Inter-Organizational Changes. Engineering Management Journal, 35(4), 405-419. https://doi.org/10.1080/10429247.2022.2143709

Jakubeit, N. , Haanstra, W. , Braaksma, J. , Rajabalinejad, M. , & van Dongen, L. (2022). Co-Designing Sustainable Coordination to Support Inter-Organizational Decision Making. Sustainability (Switzerland), 14(11), Article 6467. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14116467

Ramtahalsing, M. M. , Haanstra, W. , Braaksma, J. , Rajabalinejad, M. , & van Dongen, L. A. M. (2021). Systems Control in Railway Transport, Challenges Towards Managing Integration. In 10th International Conference on Through-life Engineering Service Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

Ramtahalsing, M. M., Kuiper-Hutten, L. , Haanstra, W. , Braaksma, J. , Rajabalinejad, M. , & van Dongen, L. A. M. (2021). Climate Change in Dutch Railway Infrastructure: Towards a Framework for Adaptation Strategies. In 10th International Conference on Through-life Engineering Service Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

Holwerda, H. , Haanstra, W. , Braaksma, J. , Coenen, T. , & Santos, J. (2021). Application of Life Cycle Assessment and similar methodologies in Asset Management: A multiple case study. In 10th International Conference on Through-life Engineering Service https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3944549

Haanstra, W. (2021). Life Cycle Valuation: Designing a modular methodology for managing the costs and benefits of physical assets over their life cycle. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036551847

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Coordinator of the Maintenance Engineering and Operations (MEO) specialisation of the Mechanical Engineering master programme.

Master

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