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Team on 15 February 2006
Managing asset performance workshop at
Maintec
Workshop during Maintec exhibition to focus on the challenge, methodology, processes and tools required to make the most of asset performance management.
An expert in asset performance management (APM) from Invensys Process Systems is to speak at Maintec, the UK's maintenance and asset management exhibition in March Neil Cooper, General Manager of the Avantis unit of Invensys, is giving a workshop during the exhibition to focus on the challenge, methodology, processes and tools required to make the most of APM
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 22 Mar 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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For APM to be successful, both operations and maintenance must be considered together.
But in most manufacturing companies today, operations management drives improved asset use while maintenance management drives improved asset availability.
The two are approached independently.
However, during his workshop Cooper will show how APM balances availability together with asset use to drive business value.
He argues that by focusing on three levels - base asset management such as field devices and equipment, asset set optimisation such as equipment sets or groups, and asset performance management - it is possible to get better information about all plant resources and therefore improve their economic performance.
This holistic approach to managing plant assets to drive business value is, said Cooper, the foundation for true APM.
Maintec runs from 14th to 16th March at the Pavilion, NEC, Birmingham.
Over 150 suppliers are attending while 44 free technical workshops are tackling subjects as diverse as condition monitoring, contract maintenance, energy management, health and safety, property maintenance and training.
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