by Kai | Nov 28, 2011 | Alliance Media
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
by Kai | Nov 28, 2011 | Media Releases
Asset Owners, Service Providers and organisations responsible for physical assets and their revenue, reliability and safety outcomes are encouraged to apply to the Asset Management Council’s 2012 Asset Management Awards.
Now in its 16th year, the AMA continues to provide organisations with an industry recognised and valid mechanism to measure continuous improvement in asset management. Participants complete a self-assessment report from the award seven criteria, participate in an on-site review and receive a detailed report by nominated Asset Management Council Reviewers.
Each applicant’s submission report is based on award criteria modelled from the Asset Management Body of Knowledge (AMBoK). With over ten year’s accumulation of work by industry key thought leaders, AMBoK presents the basis of successful asset management. The AMBoK also schematically presents the processes, within a number of disciplines, that may be used in part or entirety, to deliver successful asset management.
The recently published Asset Management Council publication Framework for Asset Management Body of Knowledge is aligned to the thirty-nine subjects proposed in the forthcoming ISO 55000 suite of asset management series. Supporting the ISO 55000 suite of asset management series is the Asset Management Landscape document, created by the Global Forum on Maintenance and Asset Management.
Both of these documents are available to participants and demonstrate the depth and breadth of knowledge, tools and techniques available to participants in the 2012 AMA.
Recipients of the AMA will be announced in June 2012 at the Asset Management Council’s Annual Dinner, Hobart. One AMA recipient will be nominated for the 2012 Australian Engineering Excellence Award, hosted by Engineers Australia at the Great Hall of Parliament House, Canberra.
Recipients of the AMA include: Airservices Australia, Aurora Energy, BHP Billiton Iron Ore, EnergyAustralia, HMAS ANZAC, One Steel, Railcorp, United Group Rail, and Woodside Energy.
Intention to submit forms may be downloaded from the Asset Management Council website (amcouncil.com.au) and are due at the latest by 25 February 2012.
by Kai | Nov 16, 2011 | Member Media
Sharp Business Solutions (Sharp) wish to advise they have established a joint business arrangement with Plant Asset Management, the Maintenance and Integrity consultancy business of Petrofac, the UK based international provider of oil and gas facilities service provider. Sharp Business Solutions who specialises in asset management solutions, is Australia’s leader in IBM Maximo implementations, solutions, training and support. Sharp’s first joint tender with Plant Asset Management was for Queensland Gas Company (QGC) for the complete CMMS (IBM Maximo) build for their new LPG plant being built on Curtis Island. The project scope includes the development of maintenance strategies and maintenance plans for the plant, as well as the definition of optimum spares requirements.
We are excited to announce that this tender was successful. It will serve to consolidate the relationship between Plant Asset Management and Sharp, and could well provide similar global opportunities going forward.
Media contact: Julie Rainbow (Marketing & Business Development Manager) – jrainbow@sharpsolutions.com.au or 0488 125 110
www.sharpsolutions.com.au
9/11/2011
by Kai | Nov 7, 2011 | Alliance Media
The Global Forum on Maintenance and Asset Management (GFMAM) held its fifth face-to-face meeting from 16 – 20 October 2011 in conjunction with the Society for Maintenance and Reliability Practitioners (SMRP) Annual Conference, Greensboro, NC, USA. The theme for the conference was: Educate, Equip, Excel. Throughout the conference, there was great interaction between the SMRP Board of Directors and GFMAM representatives, with GFMAM representatives presenting five papers during the conference.
L-R Sally Nugent (Asset Management Council, Australia), Chris Yexley (PEMAC, Canada). Cindy Snedden (PEMAC, Canada), Joao Ricardo Lafraia (ABRAMAN, Brazil), Alex Stuber (European Federation of National Maintenance Societies), Tim Goshert (SMRP, USA), David McKeown (Institute of Asset Management, UK), John Hardwick (Asset Management Council, Australia), Athayde Ribeiro (ABRAMAN, Brazil), Nezar Al Shammasi, Richard Edwards (Institute of Asset Management, UK)
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