Webinar - Transportation and Higher Education: Learning from Moving Objects
2025-11-20 08:00 - 09:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Online – Register to be sent your link
Join us to explore transportation and higher education: learning from moving objects, featuring:
Douglas Crombie is Senior Planner at Transdev Sydney Ferries, where he has worked for more than a dozen years. Mr. Crombie started his career in the Royal Australian Air Force and has more than 40 years combined asset management experience in aerospace, military, telecommunications, transport and other industries. The past 17 years have been focused on maritime asset management. He advocates data-driven decision making, structured communication and teamwork. Mr. Crombie has a proven track record in leading digital transformations – optimizing EAM systems, integrating analytics platforms and fostering cross-functional collaboration.
Kenny Seeton, Director of Central Plant Operations, California State University Domingo Hills, manages a team of ten employees responsible for heating, cooling, and maintaining approximately 1.5 million square feet of classroom and office space on campus. He also oversees Central Plant equipment. As the campus energy director, he leads initiatives in sustainability, lighting retrofits, MBCx on buildings, and HVAC optimization and controls. In July of 2024 we installed the largest heat pump project on the west coast (630 tons). This system reduced our Central Plant gas usage by 95%. He works with staff and students to develop innovative ways to increase comfort and reduce energy consumption. His efforts have helped reduce CSUDH’s GHG emissions by over 50% and earned 5 CHESC Best Practice Awards. Mr. Seeton will present annual energy cost savings of US$250,000 from an AI approach to asset management.
The presentations will be followed by a Discussion Panel with Douglas Crombie, Kenny Seeton, Nick Phillips, Mike Bordenaro and Peter Kohler to answer your questions!
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Webinar - Safe to Run from Day One - Process Safety Underpinning Asset Management in Operational Readiness (AM in Action - a 2025 Excellence Award Submission)
2025-11-25 13:00 - 13:30
Bringing a new power station online isn’t just about infrastructure—it’s about ensuring it’s safe, reliable, and ready to perform from day one. In this session, discover how the Tallawarra B Operational Readiness Team embedded process safety and asset management principles into every step of commissioning Australia’s first emissions-offset peaking power station. Learn how proactive planning, safety integration, and operational foresight supported a seamless transition from construction to operation—delivering fast-start capacity for 180,000 homes and supporting Australia’s energy transition.
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Part of the Asset Management in Action Webinar Series – showcasing submissions from the 2025 Excellence Awards.
Presenter:

Ryan James has over 20 years’ experience working across the full asset lifecycle primarily in the energy sector, through management, technical and consulting roles. He is currently providing technical management consulting services to asset-intensive businesses, with a particular focus on asset management, engineering and process safety in the high-hazard industries. Furthermore, Ryan has an electrical engineering background and has been responsible for engineering and asset management across a 6000MW power portfolio, and the engineering of over $500M in electrical infrastructure.

Webinar - Intelligent Predictive Maintenance 4.0: System Architecture, AI Integration, and Asset Management Implications
2025-12-03 13:00 - 13:30
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a revolutionary technology and its application across disciplines is noteworthy. AI can help in predictive maintenance by further enhancing decision making with data driven, dynamic, real-time, and an automated approach for risk informed decisions. This session is on Intelligent Predictive Maintenance (PdM 4.0): System Architecture and AI Integration applicable to Asset Management.
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Presenter:

Dr Jhareswar Maiti, P C Mahalanobis distinguished Educator and Suresh & Vidya Nair Chair Professor, is currently Professor & Head, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is the founder chairman of the Centre of Excellence on Safety Engineering and Analytics at IIT Kharagpur. He has more than 23 years of experiences in teaching, research, and consulting, guided 23 PhD students, executed over 35 funded projects and conducted over 25 training programs for industry. He authored over 200 publications and is in the Editorial Board of Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Safety Science, International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, and Safety & Health at Work. Prof Maiti’s research interests include safety analytics, risk assessment, AI and data science, quality management, and engineering ergonomics. He authored the textbook “Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Engineering and Management,” published by CRC Press. Prof Maiti works with world leading companies like Tata Steel Limited, Adani Group, Coal India, Haldia Petrochemicals, etc. He is Fellow Member of Royal Statistical Society, UK and Institute of Engineers (India). He is also member of INFORMS, IISE, IEEE, etc. He will be delivering keynote address and workshop on data analytics in ICMIAM2025 (www.icmiam.com) in Berwick campus, Federation University Australia 10-12 December 2025.

Webinar - Fleet Asset Management For the Lifecycle
2026-02-26 08:00 - 09:00
Join us to explore Fleet Asset Management – For the Lifecycle, featuring:

Rachel Scott, Director, Asset Management Associates, will unpack the meaning of “value” in the context of a major Defence program, framing it as measurable improvements in cost, time and quality across the asset lifecycle. Drawing on her work on the $46 billion Hunter Class Frigate Program, Rachel will demonstrate how a disciplined application of asset management principles delivers real financial savings, reduces schedule risk and strengthens engineering governance, while improving the reliability and availability of complex naval systems. She will show how data-driven planning, life-cycle optimisation and integrated logistics strategies translate directly into cost avoidance, increased materiel readiness and higher-quality sustainment outcomes. With a background as a Royal Australian Navy Weapons Electrical Engineering Officer and a career supporting large acquisition and sustainment programs, Rachel brings practical, evidence-based insights into how value is created — and protected — when asset management is well embedded.

Mark Mackenzie, Director, One North, will present a case study on how Kumba Iron Ore measurably improved fleet uptime through an approach that calculated savings and improvements with a high degree of accuracy. Both modelling and simulation were employed to project fleet availability targets. Mark has had a distinguished career in the Australian Army and has worked extensively in Australia and overseas across a variety of roles and industries. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Engineer, and a Certified Fellow of Asset Management. He is also a Fellow of Engineers Australia and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia.

The presentations will be followed by a Discussion Panel with Rachel Scott, Mark Mackenzie, Nick Phillips, Mike Bordenaro and Peter Kohler to answer your questions.
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Webinar - Squirrel Stores - why do they exist and options for removal
2026-02-26 12:00 - 13:00
A “squirrel store” is, as the name suggests, a store of spares kept outside the main stores system and warehousing program. These stores are not measured or controlled for quantity and, depending on storage practices, may also be lacking in quality. The use of spares from these stores remains a hidden cost and can mask the true cost of maintaining plant and equipment.
There are many reasons squirrel stores come into being. These will be discussed, along with how these extraneous stores can be eliminated.
The webinar will also cover real-world examples and solutions that may assist others in addressing the issue of squirrel stores.
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About the speaker: Tanya Viano is currently taking a hiatus from engineering. She holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and a Master of Maintenance and Reliability Engineering. Tanya has spent 30 years working in industry, predominantly in the oil and gas sector, in roles across projects and operations, and as a consultant. This has given her a wealth of experience. Tanya is passionate about reliability and asset management, and she led the Enhanced Problem Solving Team within QGC (Shell), which tackled some of the most difficult reliability issues in the business. As a result, Tanya was awarded a Shell Global Excellence Award for replicating the process across QGC.

This session forms the first in a webinar series presented by MRiAM – Challenges Associated with Spares Management During the Operational Phase – Webinar Series. In 2024, MRiAM presented a webinar series on managing spares, including guidance on quantities and related considerations. Since then, several forums have raised questions and prompted discussion about how to manage spares once they have been identified in the maintenance system and warehoused during the operational phase of a project. There has also been growing interest in related topics such as managing obsolete spares, “squirrel stores”, and maintaining spares holdings. The objective of this series is to address these topics and provide practical solutions from speakers who have identified these issues and can share proven approaches. Registering for this session will register you for all four sessions in the series.

Webinar - Spares Analysis Process Review Supporting Capital Investment Program
2026-03-12 12:00 - 13:00
The review of the Capital Program Spares Assessment process identified significant gaps that led to incorrect outputs and, at times, incomplete assessments. These issues resulted in inadequate spares being handed over at project completion, placing additional pressure on Operations and Maintenance teams to identify and procure requirements post-handover, causing delays and increased operational costs.
To address these shortcomings, the process needed to be redesigned to improve:

accuracy
consistency
accountability.

Integrating reliability engineering principles and clarifying team responsibilities were critical to strengthening decision-making.
The objective is to establish a framework that enhances asset performance, reduces operational risk, and supports cost-effective outcomes across capital projects.
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Ian is Lead – Reliability Engineering for the Water Corporation of Western Australia. He has been at the Water Corporation WA for over 14 years concentrating in the reliability engineering and management. He has 38 years industry experience involving paper manufacturing and packaging, food manufacturing and packaging and water utility industries covering the following asset management functions: reliability engineering and management; tactical and strategic asset maintenance management; maintenance and operations support, and process optimisation. Ian is an accredited Engineer with the Engineering Council UK and an Affiliate of the Australian Asset Management Council of Australia, Institute of Plant Engineers and Society of Operation Engineers in the UK.

Kevin is a Chartered Professional Engineer with 17+ years in asset management and reliability. He has an FMCG background with responsibility for maintenance, project delivery, and process optimisation. He has spent five years at Water Corporation responsible for improving asset health and reliability, and is responsible for condition monitoring, capability assessments, compliance strategies, spares analysis, and root cause analysis.

This session forms the third in a webinar series presented by MRiAM – Challenges Associated with Spares Management During the Operational Phase – Webinar Series. In 2024, MRiAM presented a webinar series on managing spares, including guidance on quantities and related considerations. Since then, several forums have raised questions and prompted discussion about how to manage spares once they have been identified in the maintenance system and warehoused during the operational phase of a project. There has also been growing interest in related topics such as managing obsolete spares, “squirrel stores”, and maintaining spares holdings. The objective of this series is to address these topics and provide practical solutions from speakers who have identified these issues and can share proven approaches. Registering for this session will register you for all four sessions in the series.

Webinar - Spares Management through Project Transition Phase
2026-03-19 12:00 - 13:00
The webinar focuses on some of the typical challenges faced by Asset Engineers, Reliability & Maintenance Engineers, Maintenance Managers and Maintenance staff associated with Spares Management during the project transition phase into the project operation and maintenance phase.
The webinar will explore some of the key elements during this phase of a project and highlight a number of pivotal activities and drivers for successful spares management through the project transition phase including;

Contract Type – Understanding the framework and type of service contract as it will impact your Spares Management strategy i.e., PPP, Comprehensive, Pass- Through etc.
Risk Based Methodology – ensuring that there is an integrated approach to contract risk such as KPI’s, Financial, Reputation, WHS&E.
Project Phase – Which stage of the project lifecycle are you at?
Stakeholders – have you identified who the key stakeholders are for spares management,
Spares Selection – What level of maturity has been undertaken in relation to Spares requirements and associated analysis using FMECA, RAMS or other process?
Type of Site – Different spares management strategies for Greenfield Sites v Brownfield Sites
Multiple Storage Locations – How do you optimize effective Spares Storage with multiple storage facilities and multiple work sites?
Inventory Management – Selection of suitable process i.e., part of the CMMS?

Spares Procurement Lead Time – challenges with alignment to Asset Performance requirements.
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Craig is the principle of Casmat Engineering a Facility & Asset Management Company providing a range of inspection, maintenance, auditing and technical consultancy services to companies in Australia and New Zealand over the last 32 years. He has multidisciplined skills across a variety of industries including Defence, Water & Sewage Treatment, Power Stations, Prisons, Construction, Health Sector, Educational Sector and the built environment. The services he provides to industry include asset management strategy; inspection, auditing and reporting; management of performance tests; asset lifecycle strategy; development of operation and maintenance strategy and cost modeling; and industrial maintenance services. Craig has a trade background and is a Charted Professional Engineer with areas of practice in Mechanical Engineering and Asset Management. He is a member of the Asset Management Council and a CAMA to ISO55001 and a member of the AMC special interest group, MRiAM.

This session forms the fourth and final in a webinar series presented by MRiAM – Challenges Associated with Spares Management During the Operational Phase – Webinar Series. In 2024, MRiAM presented a webinar series on managing spares, including guidance on quantities and related considerations. Since then, several forums have raised questions and prompted discussion about how to manage spares once they have been identified in the maintenance system and warehoused during the operational phase of a project. There has also been growing interest in related topics such as managing obsolete spares, “squirrel stores”, and maintaining spares holdings. The objective of this series is to address these topics and provide practical solutions from speakers who have identified these issues and can share proven approaches. Registering for this session will register you for all four sessions in the series.
