The role and importance of standardization of asset management

摘要

Sustainable asset management in the water industry in the face of aging infrastructure is an enormous Germany challenge for the operators of facilities, and standardization is the means to help many small and medium-sized enterprises in developing and emerging countries build up their asset management capabilities to overcome this issue. Horst Schlicht explains how through finding a common language and elaborating guidelines of general validity for organizational structure and processes, utilities of all sizes can gain benefit from the standardization of the requirements of sustainable asset management.