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Leading infrastructure capability-building solutions tailored to your needs
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Strategic asset management
Improving asset management has the potential to unlock significant value for asset-intensive organisations and their stakeholders.
We help you understand how asset management can add value, improve your asset management strategy and governance, and consolidate an asset management system aligned with international leading practice including ISO 55001 and the Asset Management Landscape.
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Understanding your organization's current maturity level is a crucial step in shaping your asset management strategy and improvement journey. Our Asset Management Maturity Assessment offers clear insights into your strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement, while providing a framework for tracking progress toward your goals.
At Asset Dynamics, we bring extensive experience in delivering maturity assessments across various sectors, using ISO 55001 and other industry standards. Our team holds Certified Asset Management Assessor (CAMA) qualifications from WPiAM, and apply methods aligned with ISO 19011 for audit of management systems, ensuring a rigorous, objective process with actionable feedback.
Additionally, a diagnostic assessment may be included, offering quantitative feedback on asset performance and work delivery, complementing the management system review.
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The asset management framework is the overarching structure that guides how an organisation implements asset management. Leading organisations in asset management have designed, embedded, and continually refine a framework that is tailored to their specific context and business needs. This framework ensures that the processes within the asset management system are clearly defined and controlled, aligning with international standards such as ISO 55001.
The benefits of a well-established asset management framework include:
Clear Role Definition: Everyone involved in asset management has a clear understanding of their role and how it interconnects with other teams.
Process Optimisation: The framework clearly specifies processes, allowing for their ongoing maintenance, improvement, and renewal based on business needs.
System Integration: All processes within the asset management system are fully integrated, ensuring smooth operations.
Improved Efficiency: The framework enables the integration of various management systems, enhancing overall organisational efficiency.
Asset Dynamics has extensive experience helping organizations across industries—including energy, utilities, and transport & logistics—develop and document their asset management frameworks. Using proven methods, we extract business insights and align them with modern asset management principles to create tailored frameworks that drive success.
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The Asset Management Strategy or Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP) sets the overall direction for asset management by outlining:
The current state with respect to asset management, the asset management system, and the asset portfolio.
The framework for making decisions.
The desired outcomes (asset management objectives).
A summary of planned activities to achieve these objectives, covering physical, capability, and data/information assets.
Arrangements to ensure successful plan delivery.
Developing the SAMP is most effective when approached as a strategic planning process, with active participation being key. Asset Dynamics has extensive experience leading, facilitating, and mentoring the development of asset management strategies, ensuring actionable, business-integrated plans that incorporate diverse perspectives from across the organisation.
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Effective asset management plans identify the priorities for forward work and investment in the assets in alignment with asset management objectives. They provide guidance on cost implications, timing of work, and resource requirements. In some cases, asset management plans need to be developed in such a way to meet legislative or regulatory requirements.
Asset Dynamics can support you with the following:
Establishment and improvement of asset management planning processes
Quality assuring internally developed asset management plans
Working with your team to develop asset management plans
Drafting asset management plans to meet external stakeholders’ requirements
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Aligning an infrastructure organisation with ISO 55001 is fundamentally a change management process. It requires leadership that balances between top-down establishment of asset management framework and strategy and bottom-up involvement of people. The result is an asset management system that is appropriate for the organisation, integrated with other management systems and processes, well understood by all stakeholders, and efficiently documented.
Asset Dynamics has leading capabilities in establishing ISO 55001-aligned asset management systems, and can support you with the following:
Initial asset management maturity assessment and priority recommendations.
Formation of asset management framework to consolidate existing ways of working into an ISO 55001-aligned process framework.
Develop ISO 55001-aligned strategic asset management plan, whether building from an existing SAMP, or development of the organisation’s first SAMP.
Mentoring and support for capability improvement projects based upon business improvement priorities identified in the SAMP and gaps identified in the asset management maturity assessment.
Documentation of improved business processes in alignment with asset management framework.
This overall methodology has proven effective to improve asset management performance and achieve alignment with ISO 55001.
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Data and information management
Information is the lifeblood of asset management and having the right asset information strategy and management systems optimises value from assets, leverages digital technology and keeps your people safe.
We support clients to understand their current asset information maturity and establish asset information governance and strategies that will ensure full value will be realised from information assets.
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Asset information governance is the foundation for leveraging asset information and avoiding risks.
A health check of asset information governance through our Asset Information Maturity Assessment involves a gap analysis against asset management objectives, asset management strategy and relevant standards such as ISO55001 (asset management) and ISO8000 (data quality).
This process identifies what is working well, critical risks and opportunities for improvement, providing clear direction for your Asset Information Strategy.
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An Asset Information Strategy is an essential part of an effective asset management system and ensures that the asset information requirements of all teams will be met. It specifies a plan of action to achieve long-term benefits and address information related risks and outlines how an organisation will meet its current and future asset information requirements.
Asset Dynamics has deep experience in the development, communication, and implementation of Asset Information Strategies and can play the role of facilitator or advisor as you advance in this area.
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Ensure a high degree of certainty that asset information is accurate, complete, and usable. An asset information management system includes the process, framework and tools to ensure asset information and data quality requirements are met.
Our asset information management system services include:
Asset register design, implementation and optimisation
Enterprise Asset Management System assessment and implementation
Enterprise data model of key asset management entities (where relevant leveraging industry standards such as ISO 55001, ISO 8000, BIM and CIM)
Data quality framework, development and implementation
Process improvement to support data improvements
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Data health is a measure of how fit your data is for its intended business purposes. Asset Dynamics offers comprehensive data health monitoring with DataFrame.
DataFrame provides you with real-time insights, empowering you to make informed asset management decisions that drive better outcomes for your stakeholders.
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Upgrading the enterprise asset management system (EAMS) can enable a step change improvement in asset management capability. Asset Dynamics works with clients through the EAMS selection, design and implementation to ensure realisation of value from the EAMS.
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Digital twins - virtual replicas of physical assets - can improve how infrastructure organisations manage, maintain, and optimise critical systems. However, they need to be effective and add value.
Undertaking a digital twin maturity assessment helps organisations benchmark their digital twin capabilities and plan continuous improvement.
We use the ISO/IEC 30186 standard to deliver robust, vendor-neutral maturity assessments, building on our deep understanding of asset management drivers and leveraging asset management data.
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Knowledge management
Often overlooked is the importance of knowledge in relation to the organisation and its physical assets. The inclusion of new clause “Knowledge” in ISO 55001:2024 seeks to address this issue.
Asset Dynamics has established innovative and pragmatic knowledge management solutions that ensures these often tacit assets are given the focus they require and managed throughout their lifecycle.
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Document control management is an essential enabler of asset management and the broader integrated management system of the organisation. If improving knowledge management and document control outcomes is a goal, then the best place to start is gaining an objective understanding of current capability.
Asset Dynamics’ Document Control Maturity Assessment uses a proprietary diagnostic tool to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement in the document control management system. Using best practices in the Standards New Zealand Handbook for Document Control and ISO 9001:2015, the assessment provides an objective view of your current state. Asset Dynamics provides actionable feedback on improving business outcomes related to document control and knowledge management.
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The document control management system is the integrated capability used by an organisation to manage documented information through its lifecycle. This typically covers policy, procedures, competencies, resources, and information systems. A well-functioning document control system ensures that organisational knowledge is accessible and preserved, reduces the total cost of managing knowledge assets, and guarantees their effectiveness.
Asset Dynamics has two decades of experience developing and improving document control management systems. We offer a structured and systematic approach, supported by a wide range of standard artefacts, templates, and workflows that can be adapted or adopted.
Asset Dynamics document control management system services address the risks of a technology-first approach to document control by focusing on human factors and change management.
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The role of Document Controller is critical to establishing a sustainable document control capability in your organisation. The Document Controller is the gatekeeper of the controlled document register and is responsible for:
Approving the creation of new controlled documents and ensuring correct metadata.
Completing quality reviews of controlled documents before they are sent to the document owner for approval.
Approving the publication of controlled documents.
Communicating the publication of new or updated controlled documents.
Archiving documents at end of life.
Maintaining the document control management system and ensuring it remains fit for purpose.
Reporting on the status of the document control management system and controlled documents as part of the broader risk management system.
Managing the document control information system and resolving issues.
Asset Dynamics provides interim Document Controller support while implementing a document control management system. We also offer training and mentoring for new Document Controllers.
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Asset Dynamics has a network of technical writing professionals that can be tapped for projects large or small. All technical writing work proceeds based upon a rigorous document analysis process to elicit requirements, meaning you can be confident that outputs will address business needs.
Our technical writers all have over a decade of experience in the field and are trained in Information Mapping™, a leading method for writing and structuring technical content. They are skilled communicators and are able to work effectively with a range of stakeholders including management and field teams.
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Education
Asset Dynamics provides industry-grade in-house and public training solutions across asset management, asset management data and information management, and knowledge management.
Our courses are designed and delivered by leaders in their field and can be fully customised to meet our clients’ requirements. All training includes a follow up report that captures student workshop outputs that provides a valuable prompt for business improvements.
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Course Outline
1. Asset Strategy
Defining the Asset Management Strategy
Setting Asset Management Objectives
Understanding asset portfolios: asset details, design intent, and operational requirements
Applying asset strategy across the organisation
Measuring the performance of the Asset Management Strategy
2. Asset Planning
Risk management in asset management
Measuring and evaluating asset-related risk
Developing and maintaining the Asset Management Plan
Forming work proposals and managing portfolios
Avoiding backlog and deferred works in asset management plans
3. Work Delivery
Life-cycle management of in-service assets
Avoiding early asset retirement and unnecessary waste
Using data and information to inform asset management decision-making
Reliability analysis and decision support
Integrating planning, maintenance, and project delivery
4. Continual Improvement
Performance measurement and monitoring
Internal auditing of asset management systems
Reporting to senior management and governance bodies
Using feedback and results to enable continual improvement
Who Should Attend
Managers and senior leaders
Asset managers
Reliability engineers
Planning engineers
Project engineers and project managers
Maintenance supervisors
Technicians
Anyone responsible for delivering or supporting asset management outcomes
What You’ll Take Away
Participants will gain:
A clear understanding of asset management requirements that support corporate objectives and continual improvement
An overview of the ISO 55000 series of asset management standards and their strategic business interpretation
Awareness of public guidance and global best practice resources to improve asset management capability
Insight into the roles, processes, and linkages within an asset management framework
Practical approaches to risk-based decision-making to optimise asset expenditure in the short and long term
An understanding of how data and information systems enable effective asset management decision-making and control
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Explain an asset management system and how teams must work together to deliver successful outcomes
Identify and apply asset management controls to lead, communicate, and guide teams toward achieving asset management objectives
Summarise key functions within an asset management system and identify areas for organisational improvement
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Course Outline
1. ISO Management Systems
Introduction to ISO management systems and their purpose
Quality management fundamentals and their relevance to asset management
Understanding the ISO High-Level Structure (HLS) and common management system requirements
The role of accreditation, certification, and third-party audits
What certification means in practice and how organisations prepare for audits
2. Introduction to the ISO 550xx Standards
Overview of the ISO 550xx series of asset management standards
Key changes and updates in ISO 55001:2024
Understanding the structure and intent of ISO 55001
Detailed review of the ISO 55001 clauses and their practical application
Applying ISO 55001 requirements in an infrastructure asset management context
3. Consolidating an Asset Management System
The strategic case for a consolidated asset management system
Aligning asset management with organisational purpose, strategy, and outcomes
Integrating asset management with other management systems (e.g. quality, risk, safety, environment)
Working effectively with Boards and senior executives
Translating ISO 55001 requirements into practical governance, assurance, and decision-making arrangements
Who Should Attend
Senior managers and business unit leaders
Asset managers and asset management leaders
Infrastructure and engineering managers
Planning and reliability engineers
Governance, risk, and assurance professionals
Anyone responsible for implementing, overseeing, or assuring an asset management system
What You’ll Take Away
Participants will gain:
A clear understanding of ISO management systems and how ISO 55001 fits within the broader standards framework
Practical insight into the ISO High-Level Structure and how it supports integrated management systems
A working knowledge of the ISO 550xx series of standards and the intent of ISO 55001:2024
Confidence in interpreting ISO 55001 clauses and applying them in an infrastructure asset management environment
An understanding of accreditation, certification, and audit processes and what they mean for organisations
Practical guidance on consolidating and strengthening an asset management system to support governance and strategic decision-making
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Explain the purpose and structure of ISO management systems and the ISO High-Level Structure
Interpret the clauses of ISO 55001:2024 and apply them appropriately within an asset management system
Describe how an asset management system supports organisational strategy and value delivery
Engage effectively with Boards and senior executives on asset management system maturity, assurance, and performance
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Course outline
The Context for Asset Information:
Scope and purpose of asset information
Overview of asset information activities
Data roles and responsibilities
Asset information governance
The Asset Information Strategy:
Vision, goals and key performance indicators
Principles
Data quality dimensions
Business functions supported & data required for each function
Data risks and opportunities
Managing Asset Information:
Managing master data
Registering new assets
Capturing asset information
Monitoring asset information quality
Extracting asset information
Improving Asset Information:
Rationale for improving asset information
Review and plan asset information improvements
Implementing information improvements
Performance evaluation for asset information
Who should attend
Asset information managers
Asset information analysts
Asset information team leaders
Asset information improvement analysts
GIS Team Leaders
GIS analysts
Business analysts
Anyone responsible for ensuring asset management data and information is fit for purpose
What you’ll take away
Understand what an effective asset information framework looks like and how to ensure it is appropriate for an organisation’s asset management requirements.
Learn how to create an asset information strategy which provide guidance and clarity to asset information activities.
Understand the interfaces between the asset information team and the many internal and external stakeholders who rely on fit for purpose asset information.
Relate the asset information aspects of ISO 55000 standards and the GFMAM AM Landscape to asset information functions and activities in your organisation.
Specify an internal audit and performance measurement approach that provides asset information is meeting requirements and is improving over time.
Course objectives
Explain the fundamentals of asset information including why it is critical to effect asset management.
Describe the core activities required to provide fit for purpose asset information and outlines how these functions operate.
Examine the principles and concepts underpinning an effective asset information capability are explained.
Understand the role of asset information governance is described as well other key roles and their responsibilities.
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About the course
This focused half‑day training provides a practical introduction to asset information governance as the link between strategy and information practices. It demonstrates how governance structures, strategies, and assurance processes ensure that asset information remains fit for purpose and delivers confidence in decision‑making.
Aligning with the Asset Management Landscape (Third Edition, GFMAM, 2024) and ISO 55013:2024, participants will explore how clear governance and leadership oversight build information capability that underpins effective asset management strategies, sustainable outcomes, and community expectations.
Course outline
Context for Asset Information
Understanding scope, purpose, and the role of governance in ensuring information meets strategic needs.Asset Information Strategy and Governance
Linking vision, organisational goals, and asset management objectives to information requirements.
Data quality principles and dimensions connected to decision quality.
Governance approaches to risks, opportunities, assurance frameworks, standards, and compliance.Governance Touchpoints in Information Processes
Oversight across master data, asset registration, data capture, and monitoring for alignment to strategy.
Performance measures tied to governance and assurance objectives.Assurance and Audit
Internal audit and assurance methods for testing alignment and improvement.
Governance oversight for continuous information capability enhancement.
Who should attend
Executive leaders and senior managers with accountability for asset management strategy and outcomes
Heads of asset information and governance functions tasked with alignment to organisational goals
Decision‑makers overseeing asset data policies and compliance
IT leaders managing systems that must serve asset management strategies
Governance committees and officers ensuring standards are upheld
What you’ll take away
Understanding how governance ensures information supports strategy and value delivery
Tools to link organisational goals to asset information strategies
Methods for evaluating data quality and governance risks in a strategic context
Clarity on how GFMAM and ISO standards anchor governance practices
Assurance approaches for strengthening capability and strategic fitness of information
A concise reference pack of governance models, tools, and audit approaches
Course objectives
Explain why asset information governance is critical for aligning decisions with strategy
Define governance roles, responsibilities, and escalation pathways
Show how strategy, data quality, and controls align under governance frameworks
Identify assurance approaches that demonstrate information supports asset management outcomes
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About the Course
This focused half-day training provides an applied understanding of the foundational elements that make Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems effective and enduring. Participants will learn how to connect asset management frameworks, information standards, and governance practices to create a stable platform for digital transformation and continual improvement.
The course blends strategy, process, and practical tools - showing how to move from EAM implementation to sustained value delivery.
Aligned with the GFMAM Asset Management Landscape (Third Edition, 2024) and ISO 55001:2024, the course emphasises the importance of asset information strategy, configuration management, and performance evaluation in building a resilient EAM foundation.
Course Outline
1. Building the EAM Foundation
Understanding the essential building blocks of an effective EAM environment
The role of the asset management framework in guiding systems, processes, and performance
How asset information strategy connects investment decisions to organisational objectives
2. Aligning Asset Information and Objectives
Linking data improvement initiatives to asset management outcomes
Using the asset management processes and measures to connect data quality with decision quality
Examples of alignment between asset information, performance, and value delivery
3. Establishing Asset Hierarchy and Data Requirements
Developing the asset hierarchy or hierarchies that meet asset management and information disclosure requirements.
Identifying the asset fields required to meet asset management requirements including what asset data is required, for what purpose, and the principles for which system should master what types of information.
Identifying the trade-offs for each option and considerations or limitations and decisions required if implementing the structure.
Particular attention is required regarding the optimal structure for linear assets such as lines, cables and pipes, as this is a unique characteristic of network infrastructure.
4. Sustaining Value Through Strong Foundations
Ensuring processes, standards, and cultural practices reinforce EAM objectives
Using performance evaluation and continual improvement (Clause 9) to maintain value
Examples of how foundational practices support long-term EAM success
Who Should Attend
Executives and senior leaders accountable for asset management outcomes
Programme and project sponsors initiating or improving EAM systems
Asset management, finance, and performance specialists building organisational capability
Business analysts responsible for EAM processes and improvement
What You’ll Take Away
A clear understanding of the foundational elements that underpin effective EAM
Tools to align EAM initiatives with asset management frameworks and objectives
Methods for establishing and maintaining governance, accountability, and assurance
A reference slide pack including frameworks, foundation checklists, and examples
Course Objectives
Explain the key foundations that support effective EAM benefit realisation
Show how defining objectives and frameworks before implementation ensures success
Demonstrate how asset information quality and management processes sustain performance
Identify governance and performance practices that strengthen EAM over time
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