The Global Forum on Maintenance and Asset Management (GFMAM) held its seventh face-to-face meeting from 9-14 September 2012 in conjunction with Abraman (Brazilian Society for Maintenance and Asset Management) 27th Congress in Rio de Janeiro.
Members of the ABRAMAN Board and the GFMAM Council
Many organisations believe that qualitative and semi quantitative risk assessments are adequate to determine where their allocated budget should be best spent. Others argue that while such tools may be useful as a filter for actions that must be taken or that are not necessary, only quantitative risk assessment (identification, analysis and evaluation) can determine what tasks and associated budgets are defensible to the organisation’s financial approving authority.
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Asset management and maintenance are NOT synonymous. However, maintenance is one of the key processes that delivers outcomes in asset management, and has a significant impact across many of the processes and subjects that comprise the scope of asset management.
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Presentations from the November 16 Perth Symposium “META Data, Master Data, Mobile Solutions & Standards” are now available for download from the member zone, under New Presentations.
On Tuesday 26 July 2011, the Asset Management Council together with the Australian Water Association, Water Services Association Australia and the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australia held an ISO Asset Management Standards Stakeholders’ Consultation Forum in Sydney.
The Forum was well attended, with over 70 stakeholders present for the afternoon session. Beginning the forum were formal presentations by key leaders involved in the formation of the ISO Asset Management Standard suite, followed by an open discussion to allow stakeholders to voice their concerns and hear how their concerns will be addressed within the proposed Standard.
Here are some of the questions and answers that were minuted from the Forum….
The ICOMS Asset Management Conference 2011 People’s Choice Award for the best conference presentation, as voted by conference delegates, was won by Dr Nik Nikolovski and Franc Spinelli for their paper “Asset Strategy Development Using Defect Elimination Principles”. This presentation is available to download from the member’s only area of the website, while a copy of the full paper can be found on the USB of Conference Proceedings.