Asset Management Plan
in infrastructure management
An asset management plan (AMP) is a tactical plan for managing an organisation's infrastructure and other assets to deliver an agreed standard of service. Typically, an asset management plan will cover more than a single asset, taking a systems approach - especially where a number of assets are co-dependent and are required to work together to deliver an agreed standard of service.
The International Infrastructure Management Manual defines an asset management plan as; "a plan developed for the management of one or more infrastructure assets that combines multi-disciplinary management techniques (including technical and financial) over the life cycle of the asset in the most cost effective manner to provide a specific level of service."
Objectives
Twofold: justification and optimization
Justification - to give visibility of the costs and benefits associated with providing the agreed standard of service.
Optimisation - to minimize the whole-life cost, including the operation, maintenance and replacement or disposal of each asset in the system.
Clearly for either of the above to work, the Standard of Service needs to be defined (in a measurable way) for each asset in an asset system.
The first part can be achieved relatively quickly, and is necessary before the decentralization of decision-making around maintenance and replacement can really occur, but the second requires ongoing work in local teams, together with better guidance from the center.
An asset management plan should take a "horses for courses" approach - not a one size fits all, but needs based - taking into account the basic information required. Beyond this, it should be built upon by the local asset manager according to local needs. A fully developed Asset Management approach usually requires a number of iterations of the AMP, and needs to be reviewed more frequently for more complex systems, especially asset systems where the average annual cost required to provide the agreed standard of service is high.
Typical contents
An AMP typically covers the following areas:
Asset System Description
Standard of Service Definition
Current Asset Performance
Planned Actions
Costs
Benefits
Potential Improvements
Asset system description
Description of the problem that the asset system aims to reduce.
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