New name for maintenance?
Asset management is more. Asset management is a business management system for maximizing the value of owning real estate, buildings and facilities by taking the right measures in the respective phase of the life cycle. It goes without saying that maintenance is an indispensable element of this.
By taking the requirements of later life cycle phases into account at an early stage, measures can be implemented in a timely and cost-effective manner.
Roadmap of Implementation
Practiced process orientation is the basis for the introduction of the asset management system. However, even for companies that have already come a long way in terms of process orientation, the introduction of the asset management system overnight involves enormous effort.
Instead, we recommend a step-by-step approach:
- Gradual adaptation of existing maintenance and building and plant construction processes
- Gradual adaptation of existing procurement and controlling processes
- Completion by means of new processes
- Creation of the framework of the asset management system
Please also note that the move towards asset management causes a shift in the planning horizon and must therefore also be seen as a cultural change. Supporting measures are therefore also required at this level.
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Definition
Asset management aims at maximizing the benefits of the company’s existing assets.
The internationally valid ISO 55000 – ISO 55002 series of standards provides a framework for the introduction and further development of the asset management system with definitions, requirements and implementation instructions. In simplified terms, the definition is
- systematic and coordinated activities and practices
- optimal control of capital assets by the organization
- optimization of performance, risks and expenses relating to capital assets
- over the entire life cycle
- to achieve the organization’s strategic asset management plan
where the Strategic Asset Management Plan is defined as: Comprehensive long-term action plan for the organization that is driven by
- Framework conditions of the organization
- Vision
- Mission
- Business principles (policy)
- Objectives
- Risk management
is derived.
Introducing asset management according to ISO55001 means supplementing an existing management system that takes into account ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 50001, etc.