Asset Management

The Capability Assurance Model, and why we

bothered!
Peter Kohler
Director
Asset Management Council
Australia

19 Apr 2007 Slide 1

 What is AM Council?

• Learned Society of Engineers Australia

– 1300 individual members
– 117 corporate members
– 1 Supporter – Silcar (more in pipeline)
– Patron – Transfield Services
• Focussed on whole life asset management through an
– AM Framework model
– AM Definition
– AM Technologies model

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 What do we do?

• Annual conference
• Asset Management Excellence Awards
• AM Courses:
– Fundamentals
– Configuration Management (soon)
– Risk management (soon)
• Magazine
• AMBoK Project
• Team with like minded organisations

19 Apr 2007 Slide 3

 What is asset management?

Lifecycle management of physical

assets to achieve the stated outputs
of the enterprise

19 Apr 2007 Slide 4

 AM Framework Model

Step 1 - AM as Process

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an
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The PDCA
Process
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 AM Framework Model
Step 2 - Culture and Leadership

Good The PDCA

Asset Process
Management

Culture Leadership

Lifecycle management of physical assets to achieve the stated outputs of the enterprise
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 AM Framework Model

Step 3 - The Four Key Principles

Output
Focus

Learning Capabilities
Organisation

Level of
Assurance

Lifecycle management of physical assets to achieve the stated outputs of the enterprise
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 Asset Framework Model
Capability Assurance

The PDCA
Process

Good AM
Processes

The Four Key

Principles

Lifecycle management of physical assets to achieve the stated outputs of the enterprise
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 AM Framework Model
– Why did we do it?
• Provides common framework for thinking, talking and defining AM
• Document our view
• Provide a “stick in the sand”, a reference point for AM and our
community
– What can we use it for?
• Enable Technologies Model to be created
• Course(s) content, definitions etc:
– Current
– Future

• Asset Management Excellence Award criteria

• Enable AMBoK project to be commenced
• Provide AM competency requirements

19 Apr 2007 Slide 9

 AM Technologies Model

Total
Stakeholder Needs
Stakeholder Needs Configuration Productive
Maintenance
Management Integrated Pkg,Hand,
Pkg, Hand,Stor
Stor&&Trans
Trans

Demand Management Support ComputerSupport

Support Operations
Computer Operations
Management
Management
Demand
Demand
Analysis
Analysis
NonAsset
Non Asset
Solution
Solution
Systems Engineering SupportEquip
Support Equip&&Facilts
Facilts

Manualsand
Manuals andTraining
Training
Asset
Asset
Solution Concept
Concept
Solution Validation Total Quality
Validation Sparesand
Spares andPersonnel
Personnel
Management
Needs
Needs Concept
Concept Ops&
Ops &Sup
Sup Ops.and
andMaint.
Maint.Plan
Plan Maintenance
Maintenance Process
Process
Specification
Specification Design
Design Ops.
Definition
Definition Exploration
Exploration Analysis
Analysis Management
Management Monitoring
Monitoring

Construct/Dispose
Construct/Dispose

Engineering
Engineering Process
Process Process
Process
Change
Change Change
Change Audit
Audit

19 Apr 2007 Slide 10

 AMBoK Project
• AMBoK Project aims are to provide the AM
community with non IP info:
– Standards relevant to AM (finance, engineering etc)
– AM glossary
– Guidelines for AM major processes and Standards
– AM Case Studies

• Data tool (web enabled), that:

– Provides community access to the above info
– Ready indexing/referencing system

19 Apr 2007 Slide 11

 Thanks for this opportunity.

Happy for you to ask questions!

peter.kohler@amcouncil.com.au

19 Apr 2007 Slide 12