Category: IES

Joulz ISO 55001 certified

JOULZ Joulz has been providing measurement services and energy infrastructures for business customers for many years. The name ‘Joulz’ is derived from Joule, the unit of energy. The same energy that is present in the workplace. Consider this. In 2019 Joulz was acquired by a British owned company from Stedin. During this already turbulent period, […]


As an asset manager the learning never ends

For many years, IES Asset Management (IES) has been one of the largest players in the field of asset management training courses in the ‘Premier League’ segment. Our training courses do not just discuss asset management theory, but also what you can use it for and how you can get it working specifically in your […]


Strategy APM Terminals Rotterdam Maasvlakte II

Description Client APM Terminals has a worldwide network of container terminals. APM Terminals operates in 68 countries and has 25,000 employees. Question The APM Terminals Maasvlakte 2 will build a full automatic terminal. This will be done in several phases. For the first phase, APM Terminals Maasvlakte II BV asked IES Asset Management to advise […]


Maintenance management at PPG

PPG Industries is a global supplier of paints, coatings, optical products, specialty materials, glass and fiber glass. The company was founded in 1883 as the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company but due to increasingly global presence and diversification changed names in 1968 to PPG Industries. Architectural Coatings EMEA, a sub-division of PPG Industries, is the second-largest […]


Peer review of road authorities in Africa

The nine nations of Southern Africa have joined forces for the support and development of their major roads networks. This organisation, ASANRA, is striving for PAS 55 certification. To achieve this goal it is necessary to determine a starting point for improvement. IES has helped the organisation and its national members to perform a peer […]


IES trains SBB in asset management

SBB is the national railway company in Switzerland. In total SBB manages over 3000 km of rail and 792 train stations in mountainous area with numerous tunnels, breathtaking bridges and overpasses as well as a large fleet of rolling stock. SBB employs approximately 31,000 people. In 2014 and 2015 IES, together with partner ZNAPZ, had the […]


IES trains Trainkos staff in Kosovo

A lot can change when you fly just 3 hours southeast from Amsterdam. In Kosovo time appears to have stopped when you look at the national railway company Trainkos. Operation and maintenance of a railway company goes very different compaired to the situation at home. The Dutch Embassy in Kosovo asked IES to manage a […]


Railroad to PAS 55 certification for a young public transport authority

Paper presented at the 6th World Congress & Global Forum on Maintenance and Asset Management at EuroMaintenance, 5-7 May, Helsinki, Finland. Download the article here. Abstract: Increasing professionalization and need of standardization in the field of asset management leads to growing interest in PAS 55 / ISO 55000 certification. Whereas the theoretical side has been discussed […]


Improving availability j-lay tower for Heerema marine contractors

Lead time: 8 months Heerema Marine Contractors operates one of the biggest fleets of large off shore cranes and pipe laying vessels in the world. Heerema asked IES Asset Management to compose work instructions for the maintenance activities on the J-lay tower of crane- and pipe laying vessel De Balder. IES drew up work instructions for all critical maintenance tasks. […]