Category: Papers

  • Managing the Process of Outsourced Contracts and Agreements

    Managing the Process of Outsourced Contracts and Agreements

    Maintenance is a lifetime of sustained effort to ensure that the assets of acompany continue to provide a service that will ensure that the organisationcan provide its designated service. As a consequence a maintenancecontract has very different business goals from the provision of servicesthrough construction or a one-off engineering exercise.

  • Asset Management Implementation

    Asset Management Implementation

    This paper presents various methodologies and issues associated with a total asset management process that embraces the use of capital and maintenance expenditure to ensure assets meet the full spectrum of operational requirements, including safety, performance and return on investment. Pervading the entire process is a risk management process that is a function of the…

  • Maintenance Systems Formation

    Maintenance Systems Formation

    The major topics dealt with in this paper include identification of items to be maintained under a preventative maintenance schedule (PM) in a facility and the assessment of the criticality of each of the nominated items of plant. Based on the asset listing a preventative maintenance schedule and inspection plan, covering simple inspection, trade level…

  • Maintenance Reliability Bureau

    Maintenance Reliability Bureau

    This paper presents an objective methodology for maintenance data analysis. The purposes of these analyses are to identify strengths and weaknesses in the maintenance management system, opportunities for improvements, and benchmark maintenance key elements against maintenance best practice. A wide range of reports can be provided from analysing the data from computerised maintenance management systems.…

  • Strategic Asset Management

    Strategic Asset Management

    This paper presents various methodologies and issues associated with a total asset management process that embraces the use of capital and maintenance expenditure to ensure assets meet the full spectrum of operational requirements, including safety, performance and return on investment. Pervading the entire process is a risk management process that is a function of the…

  • Strategy — Maintenance, Capital and Risk

    Strategy — Maintenance, Capital and Risk

    This paper presents various methodologies and issues associated with a total asset management process that embraces the use of capital and maintenance expenditure to ensure assets meet the full spectrum of operational requirements, including safety, performance and return on investment. The broad range of issues associated with implementing asset management mean that the work must…