Making the Transition to Enterprise Asset Management
The task of maximizing and sustaining the value of physical assets to the organization poses challenges to all stakeholders responsible for planning, deploying, using, and managing those assets across the enterprise. This document provides guidance to key stakeholders who seek to overcome these challenges and bring the benefits of Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) to their organizations. The guide is useful for: Any organization that seeks to transition from basic asset management, typically during O&M on a limited set of assets, to EAM with a diverse set of assets serving a large number of enterprise-wide stakeholders. Any organization that currently implements some form of EAM, but seeks to improve the quality of its asset portfolio data and increase the benefits derived from its EAM system. Senior leaders will learn to recognize typical operational indicators that prompt the need for EAM. They will learn how a lack of holistic information about the asset portfolio can inhibit an...