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Fluidity in Assets – US Military helping to repurpose buildings

Repurpose

One of the purposes behind the Asset Management Council’s series in Fluidity in Assets, is to share knowledge of how businesses are contributing to reducing the impact of COVID-19. But another purpose is to share good news stories from around the world. In this post, we head to the USA, where the US military is helping to convert disused buildings into hospitals.

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Fluidity in Assets – Dyson from vacuums to ventilators

vacuum ventilators

Welcome to the Asset Management Council’s third post on Fluidity in Assets. This time, we travel to the United Kingdom, to Dyson. Traditionally the home of the bagless vacuum cleaner, the company has been asked by the UK government to supply ventilators, in this time of crisis due to COVID-19.

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AM Throwback Monday

Throwback MonIt’s throwback Monday! Please enjoy this week’s five asset management videos carefully selected for you:

  1. Demystifying IIoT in the context of asset management
  2. Minimising replacement downtime using parallel process mapping and activity externalising
  3. The development of a ‘defensible’ maintenance budget
  4. Total asset management plan framework
  5. Using data analytics to make smarter business decisions

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Fluidity in Assets – Buildings

COVIDIn the second on our series in Fluidity of Assets, we look at buildings and how they are currently being repurposed to provide new ways to help the community during the coronavirus pandemic.

Let’s head to Western Australia. Nineteen kilometres off the coast of Fremantle, lies Rottnest Island, famous as the home to Australia’s cutest marsupial, the Quokka. However, the infographic gives a brief history of the building assets on the island, and how they have been constructed and repurposed over time.  

And most recently, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Western Australian prime minister is considering the option of Rottnest Island being a quarantine zone1, highlighting again the fluidity of assets to meet stakeholder and community needs.

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Fluidity in Assets – Alcohol Manufacturers

sanitiserThe Asset Management Council invites you to take a quick look at the ways in which businesses are altering manufacturing and production in a series of posts on Fluidity in Assets.

When the supermarket aisles recently became bare of hand sanitiser, Australian gin and rum manufacturers switched their business to produce medical-grade hand sanitiser. Gin company SevenZeroEight, owned by Shane Warne and named for the total number of wickets taken in his cricket career, advised that an agreement had been made to provide a continuous supply of 70% alcohol hand sanitiser at cost to two Western Australian hospitals1.

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