Implementing Cultural Change

May 10, 2012 | Conference

newsicoms12At this year’s ICOMS Asset Management Conference we will be running a Q&A session on Implementing Cultural Change.

We asked Michael McGrath, Life Member of the Asset Management Council, his question for the panellists on implementing cultural change. His response:

What is the single essential ingredient to have before embarking on implementation of an asset management system?

 

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Developing a common language: The Asset Management Landscape, English Version

Apr 17, 2012 | AMBoK

Developing a common language: The Asset Management Landscape, English Version
Monday, 28 November 2011 14:35
The Global Forum on Maintenance and Asset Management (GFMAM) has released The Asset Management Landscape ISBN 978-0-9871799-1-3 as a building block to provide a common overview and perspective of asset management and its various features.
While the discipline of asset management has developed significantly over the last two decades, so too has a number of asset management approaches, standards, models and principles, across the globe. It has become clear that there is benefit in aligning these by collaborating with other organisations to develop a global view on asset management. Most evident for this need is the increasing number of companies operating asset management systems in multiple countries.
Within the Asset Management Landscape document is a common core asset management language. The asset management principles and the list of subjects have been derived from an international review of asset management models and assessment methodologies which identified and distilled 39 asset management subjects. These subjects are part of the core and enable GFMAM members to compare, contrast and align their knowledge and practices.
Each GFMAM member will incorporate the landscape as part of their Asset Management Framework, which shows how and where a member’s knowledge and practices fits in. The framework will provide greater access to guidance and best practice material on asset management, as well as common definitions relating to asset management and how maintenance contributes to asset management. It will also increase the availability of international case studies.
To read more about the Asset Management Landscape go to www.gfmam.org
GFMAMThe Global Forum on Maintenance and Asset Management (GFMAM) has released The Asset Management Landscape ISBN 978-0-9871799-1-3 as a building block to provide a common overview and perspective of asset management and its various features.

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Asset Management in the Power Generation Industry and Local Government

Apr 11, 2012 | Government Community of Practice News

Asset Management Council Gippsland Chapter Event

After an extensive career at both a technical and senior management level in the Power Generation industry, Graeme Offer made a switch to Local Government, where he was involved in the rapidly emerging Asset Management field at a high-growth Queensland regional city.

Graeme will share some observations on the different approaches to Asset Management in the two industries, and will share some of his experiences in implementing Asset Management in a local government environment.

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Engineers Australia, Volume 83 No. 12

Apr 10, 2012 | Media Coverage

Awards applications now open

‘Asset owners, service providers and organisations responsible for physical assets and their revenue, reliability ans safety are encouraged to apply to the Asset Management Council’s 2012 Asset Management Awards’.

Developing international standards – by Peter Kohler

‘Australians are playing a leading role in the development of a suite of international standards for asset management’.

To read the full articles, click here

Engineers Australia Magazine, Volume 83 No. 12, first published December 2011