Asset Management Plan
In order to achieve the asset management objectives, measures must be planned and recorded in the so-called asset management plans. Asset management plans describe the required activities, the resources to be allocated and the time frames necessary f...
Decision-making levels
Asset management is performed on three levels. At the lowest level, the life cycle of individual asset objects is optimized. The next higher level refers to the management of asset systems, e.g. the pavement on the network level. The next, third leve...
Asset Management is not Managing Assets
In the last 10-15 years at the latest, asset management has lived "a double life": on the one hand, it has been the traditional term used since the 1970s for planning procedures in maintenance management (such as PMS), and on the other, it has been t...
Certification
Although the certification of an organization according to ISO 55001 is not a necessary prerequisite for the successful implementation and sustainable operation of an asset management system, it can objectively demonstrate through regular external au...
Resilience of the Infrastructure
For several years now, risk management in relation to infrastructure has been accompanied by the term resilience. The UN Office of Disaster Risk Reduction defines resilience as "the ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resi...
Criticality
As the complexity and interdependence of different infrastructure systems increases, so do risks that cannot be dealt with using "classic" risk management methods. Thus, one investigates the "vulnerability" of entire infrastructure systems, such as t...