MOST OF THE TIME, when someone mentions asset management the discussion focuses on predictive and preventative maintenance to reduce or eliminate unexpected down time and associated lost production. It turns out, however, there's much more to the concept. As Maurice Henderson of Ventyx put it, "Asset management is not just about managing assets, it's about deriving value and benefit from those assets." Back in 2003, the British Standards Institute began developing PAS 55, which defined good practices for the whole life cycle of assets as well as the optimized management of physical assets. At the Ventyx World conference in San Francisco, I learned that work is now underway on evolving PAS 55 into an international standard via ISO 55000. According to Henderson, ISO 55000 will "define requirements for the good practice of an asset management management system." You read that right: an asset management management system. In other words, ISO 55000 is not about managing assets directly, it's about managing the process you use to manage assets in the most effective way.
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