Business critical: The publication of ISO 55000 enables a new chapter in business thinking around asset maintenance and management

摘要

Last year's publication of the voluntary ISO 55000:2014 series of asset management standards has the potential to change everything in maintenance management. That's the contention of many in the industry - despite more than 10 years' availability of the best-selling PAS 55 specification, developed by BSI (British Standards Institution) and IAM (the Institute of Asset Management) back in 2004 and updated in 2008. Why? Because PAS 55 was designed only as a foundation to optimise the management of physical plant and equipment, whereas ISO 55000, which supersedes that standard, kicks coverage on to include financial and business metrics, too.