{"id":242,"date":"2025-07-17T12:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.attica.nu\/wordpress\/?page_id=242"},"modified":"2025-09-08T09:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:09:21","slug":"arjan-forrer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/attica.nu\/en\/de-mensen\/arjan-forrer\/","title":{"rendered":"Arjan F\u00f6rrer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"242\" class=\"elementor elementor-242\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-870c208 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"870c208\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fe7e360 elementor-widget elementor-widget-template\" data-id=\"fe7e360\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"template.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div 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elementor-size-default\">\"Independent thinker without dogmas.\"<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3114fc2e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3114fc2e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-25cf7d32 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"25cf7d32\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Arjan F\u00f6rrer<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3d566c7 elementor-shape-rounded elementor-grid-0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-social-icons\" data-id=\"3d566c7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"social-icons.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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101.9V416z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-51c006fb e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"51c006fb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7a3b4a26 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"7a3b4a26\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<style>\n  #experience-container {\n    color: #7A7A7A;\n    margin: 0;\n    padding: 0;\n  }\n<\/style>\n\n<span id=\"experience-container\">\n  <span><b>Work experience:<\/b> <span id=\"experience-years\"><\/span> years<\/span>\n<\/span>\n\n<script>\n  document.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() {\n    const startYear = 1988; \n    const currentYear = new Date().getFullYear();\n    const experience = currentYear - startYear;\n    document.getElementById(\"experience-years\").textContent = experience;\n  });\n<\/script>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1907347f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1907347f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Education:<\/strong> HTS Dordrecht - Electrical Engineer<\/p><p><strong>About me: <\/strong><\/p><p>In 1988, I entered the world of rail as an electrical engineer when the NS wanted to implement serial electronic interlocking at large rail yards. I noticed that there was no guideline at all for that implementation.<\/p><p>Discussion was smothered by the concern that the system could not guarantee railway safety: bits and bytes might spontaneously \"disappear\". There was no faith in modern technology: tangible, sturdy relays and the drawing and inspection of switches were displaced by intangible electrons in chips.<\/p><p>I enjoy convincing people that you can still achieve the desired result with another, controlled process. Putting aside dogma is often the only way to bring about change.<\/p><p>When the implementation of electronic interlocking threatened to strand in 1992, I wrote a rescue plan. After that, I took charge of the EBS project until its successful commissioning in Rotterdam in 1994. At that time, it was the world's largest implementation and it helped secure many international contracts for Holland Railconsult - as the independent engineering office of NS was then called.<\/p><p>At the end of 1996 I transferred to Siemens. There was apparently a need for somebody who could think more out-of-the-box to provide a counterweight to the regimented, hierarchical German approach. There, I expanded my commercial affinity. As head of the Transport division, I was responsible for Siemens Netherlands Transport Technology: delivering ICE3, combino to GVB, a pilot ERTMS offering\u2026 all major projects. I increasingly enjoyed exercising influence on processes and organizations by thinking independently.<\/p><p>In 2002, at VIALIS, I came to manage an organisation that brought products to market. A dream. The manager's role suited me. I love coaching people.<\/p><p>In 2009, I became responsible for General Electric in the Netherlands. At peak moments, a hundred people were working in the RET project team.<\/p><p>And now Attica... I'm in the right spot. As a relative outsider, I can use the role of the out-of-the-box thinker to exercise influence across the organisation in a broader sense... I think that the client has a right to a properly working and well-documented product. And I participate gladly in this.<\/p><p>There's not much that I don't know about installation and management... but I still enjoy learning nonetheless!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":212,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-242","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/attica.nu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/attica.nu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/attica.nu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/attica.nu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/attica.nu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/attica.nu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/attica.nu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions\/407"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/attica.nu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/attica.nu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}