Practitioner Forum: Certification for Asset Management and Maintenance
2-4:30pm, Monday 16th May
Objective – to better understand the coverage and nature of existing certification programs for mutual recognition and linkages
| 2:00 pm | What is asset management and maintenance engineering? (discussion results from Sunday exchange meeting) |
| 2:45 pm | Current International Schemes What subjects are covered by various international schemes? How are the schemes assessed? 15 minutes each on
PEMAC scheme, Cindy Snedden, Manager – Maintenance Management Professional Certificate Program, PEMAC, Canada CMRP, Tim Goshert, Outreach Director, SMRP, USA ABRAMAN, Athayde Ribeiro, CEO ABRAMAN, Brazil EFNMS, Jan Franlund, Certification Committee Chair, EFNMS, Sweden CPAM, Sally Nugent, CEO Asset Management Council, Australia |
| 4:00 pm | How GFMAM is working to acknowledge and harmonize these schemes |
| 4:30 pm | Discussion |
Panel: Asset Management and Sustainability
Picture this scenario. A company wishes to build an asset, and operate to failure. This choice will provide the best return to shareholders. The community may not regard this as sustainable.
Questions
What is sustainability in asset management terms?
What does the community consider to be sustainability?
What might asset management practitioners need to take into account in the future?
Who decides?
Panellists
Peter Way, IPWEA
Tim Goshert, SMRP
Richard Edwards, IAM, UK
Chris Adams, AWA
Background
Sustainability is defined in many ways by asset management practitioners. So what is sustainability, and how does it interrelate with asset management?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sustainability is the capacity to endure. In ecology, the word describes how biological systems remain diverse and productive over time. Long-lived and healthy wetlands and forests are examples of sustainable biological systems. For humans, sustainability is the potential for long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions.
The word sustainability is derived from the Latin sustinere (tenere, to hold; sus, up). Dictionaries provide more than ten meanings for sustain, the main ones being to “maintain”, “support”, or “endure”.[4][5] However, since the 1980s sustainability has been used more in the sense of human sustainability on planet Earth and this has resulted in the most widely quoted definition of sustainability and sustainable development, that of the Brundtland Commission of the United Nations on March 20, 1987: “sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”[6][7]
The Institute of Public Works Engineering have, in their position paper on “SUSTAINABILITY IN SERVICE PROVISION” (http://www.ipwea.org.au/nams/upload/PP2.pdf), suggested that this view of sustainability be adopted, and therefore considered part of the triple bottom line, but that people operating in different parts of a business or organisation – such as physical asset management, financial management, customers – will have different and narrower definitions of sustainability.
The emerging ISO standard on asset management has a draft definition of asset management as “systematic and coordinated activities and practices through which an organization optimally and sustainably manages its assets and asset systems, their associated performance, risks and expenditures over their life cycles for the purpose of achieving its organizational strategic plan”
Panel: ISO Asset Management Standard
There is an international committee developing the ISO Asset Management Standards
Questions
What is the overall intent of developing this standard beyond PAS55?
This standard is not about assets – what is it about?
What material should the standard cover?
How are people and IP covered by the standard?
What are the relationships between safety, environment, quality systems and asset management?
Has sustainability been suitably defined?
How will the standard deal with the differences between simple and complex systems?
How will the standard manage different approaches by different industries and disciplines?
Panellists
David McKeown, IAM
John Hardwick, ENA
Peter Kohler, AM Council
Wil Carey, AM Council Standards Advisory Panel