PAS 55 is rapidly gaining ground as the standard of choice for the management of physical assets. It does not define 'the ideal' asset management system, but rather provides a set of minimum requirements to which the asset management system should conform.
Show me an organization with a skills shortage and I will show you an organization that has failed to prioritize and implement a strategic vision to:
Develop skills
Manage talent
Retain skills
Taken one step further, the vision for maintenance of assets will not only be the precursor for this, but be indelibly linked to a cohesive strategy that will drive all these aspects, while also realizing a concomitant positive bottom line impact.
by Paul von Zeuner, Vice President, Southern African Asset Management Association
The South African Asset Management Association (SAAMA) supports government’s efforts in assisting with the continuing professional development of the engineering industry, SAAMA vice president Paul von Zeuner tells Engineering News.
He says that SAAMA is engaged in a number of certification programmes and training initiatives with the aim of developing the local industry, and this includes organisational benchmarking, and providing accreditation for continuing professional development (CPD). (Engineering News 29th October 2008)
Maintenance, or the execution of certain tasks to keep implements in working order, had its origins in the early times when rough wooden and stone tools were made.
Maintaining those tools required nothing more than very rudimentary skill.
In the later part of the 1700s there occurred a transition in parts of Great Britain's previously manual-labour-based economy towards machine-based manufacturing. It started with the mechanisation of the textile industries, the development of iron-making techniques and the increased use of refined coal. Trade expansion was enabled by the introduction of canals, improved roads and railways. The introduction of steam power (fuelled primarily by coal) and powered machinery (mainly in textile manufacturing) underpinned the dramatic increases in production capacity.
Successful implementation depends fully on a thorough understanding of how Physical Asset Management / Maintenance Management functions as an integrated system. Once this understanding has been obtained, it must be documented in such a way that it can be communicated, taught, and used as reference. Such a “Physical Asset Management Policy” then serves the purpose of giving direction to the implementation project, and it allows for all aspects of the full system to be supportive of each other.This article attempts to give a broad outline of some aspects of Physical Asset Management, and subsequently touches on the implementation process.
Show me an organization with a skills shortage and I will show you an organization that has failed to prioritize and implement a strategic vision to:
Maintenance, or the execution of certain tasks to keep implements in working order, had its origins in the early times when rough wooden and stone tools were made.
