Jan-Willem Steur is quite the expert in Asset Management, covering everything from asset condition to performance and life cycle management. With a solid background in various Asset Management domains like reliability engineering, maintenance management, and system engineering, he's got it all covered. His most famous quote when starting his storytelling is: "Know your Assets". Jan-Willem is a proactive member of several IBVM TechXchange communities and shares his knowledge via blogs, answering questions, present on flagship IBM events, remote web events as well as lecturing about his passion as quest lecture for University Leuven, Antwerp Maritime Academy and Utrecht University of Applied Science (HU). Since 2011 Jan-Willem is a design- and development partner for several products in the IBM Maximo Portfolio as well as for IBM Research.
His early days as a field technician at the Royal Dutch Navy really gave him a hands-on understanding of the field challenges and how EAM systems can truly support technicians by capturing their crucial data. When it comes to managing complex assets, tackling tough asset and maintenance strategies, and transforming them into user-friendly solutions, Jan-Willem knows his stuff. He's all about leveraging the top-notch EAM system IBM Maximo Application Suite products to make it happen.