Publisher's Synopsis
This conference disseminated the latest information on developing and implementing asset management strategies. Views and case studies were provided by national and international companies involved with driving forward asset management. The papers under "Strategic and Business Issues" covered: asset management in a competitive environment, aligning decision making processes with asset management, computerized investment management in water industry assets, asset performance - a strategic perspective, and the European MACRO project: cost/risk evaluation of asset management decisions. "Information Management" deals with: data collection and management, what price spatial accuracy?, MIMOSA -a road to increased information value?, and STEP - a life asset data modelling standard for data exchange.;"Tools and Techniques" examined: corrosion risk assessment as a critical part of integrated asset integrity management, probabilistic asset management and RCM at substations, intelligent RFID micro tags for engineering asset management - theory, examples and possibilities, SMART computing technology benefits in condition monitoring, life management of high temperature plant, independent turnkey plantwide power plant asset management provision in the new market, and on-line monitoring of power plant components. "Management of the Maintenance Process" presented: asset performance improvement - maintenance strategy review, application of RCM methodology to procurement of equipment for electricity distribution networks, Eastern Electricity's new approach to distribution switchgear management, and a common approach to plant condition monitoring. "Supplementary Papers" reviewed: the use of predictive maintenance to improve the maintenance management of power system assets, and reducing maintenance costs in gas insulated switchgear in Sweden by application of periodic acoustic diagnosis. A delegate list and exhibitor details are also included.
