Introduction to Asset Management

Develop an understanding of asset procurement & integrity

Good asset management and achieving optimal performance from physical assets requires teamwork across key functional areas of the organisation. This cannot be achieved without a shared understanding of what asset management is and how the entire corporate team influence the ability to achieve organisational objectives through those assets.

The Introduction to Asset Management one day course is scenario based using a major multi-billion dollar incident to demonstrate how no matter the profession and level everyone in the organisation influences the achievement of optimum asset performance.  Learn more about this highly interactive asset management course:

• Target Audience
• Learning outcomes
• Course Outline
• About the facilitator
• In-house

Target Audience for Introduction to Asset Management

The Introduction to Asset Management Course is relevant to all those who have a role in the management of physical assets including engineers, managers, directors, accountants, IT and maintenance technicians.

Learning Outcomes from Introduction to Asset Management

• Define good asset management
• Roles and responsibilities within the asset management life cycle
• Risk management and whole of asset life management
• Systemic causes of organisational losses
• The essential role of information
• Performance of asset management “enablers”

Course Outline of Introduction to Asset Management

In-house Delivery of Introduction to Asset Management

EA offers organisations the opportunity to deliver this course in-house which may provide advantages of the increased flexibility to:

• Customise to their context
• Include non technical graduates on the program
• On the delivery dates and timeframes
• Build a graduate “team’ within the business
• Change the workshops to reflect their specific requirements

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Facilitator Information

Facilitator Biography

James (Jim) Kennedy CPEng, CFAM is the immediate Past National Chair of the Asset Management Council and the Maintenance Engineering Society of Australia (MESA) and is currently Director, Interlogis Consulting Pty Ltd.

Jim is a Mechanical Engineer (CPEng, CFAM) with post-graduate qualifications in Risk Management and in Maintenance Engineering and Management from Swinburne University in Melbourne. He has over 40 years experience in maintenance and asset management in the aerospace, rail and power and defence industries.

For the last 20 years Jim has been directly involved in Asset Management activities years including 9 years as Technical Director MESA and four years as National Chair. He has authored two manuals for the rail industry and presented some 50 papers on asset management in Europe, Middle East and South America.

His consulting assignments include clients such as Energy Australia, ETSA, London Underground, Defence Material Organisation, Transfield Services, United Group and Queensland Rail, Over the last 8 years Jim has developed and delivered courses in asset management from 1 to 5 days duration to over 1000 managers, engineers and supervisors in a variety of organisations around the world. Jim’s was awarded the MESA Medal in May 2004.

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