Asset Management ExcellenceEdition 3

This is the third edition of Asset Management Excellence: Optimizing Equipment Life-Cycle Decisions.

This edition acknowledges and introduces the many changes to the Asset Management business while continuing to explain the supporting fundamentals. Since the second edition, there have been many influences of change in asset management, society’s expectations, and supporting technologies.

In this edition, the contributors have revisited the content and have updated and added insights and information based on the emerging influences in thinking and the continued evolution of applied technologies since the prior editions.

New in the Third Edition:

• Updates across each of the second edition chapters to align with today’s insights
• Updates on technologies now available to support Asset Management, including related software packaging, the Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence
• Insights on how Information Technology can step up to help an asset-intensive organization compete, drive to operational excellence and automation
• A chapter on sustainability and the influence Asset Management may have on this higher-focus priority
• A chapter on change enablement as the process and technology changes impact the various stakeholders of asset-intensive organizations

The fundamentals of Asset Management are essential as Asset-intensive organizations look to technologies to help them compete. AI is becoming pervasive but must be confirmed and aligned with the fundamentals. This edition will provoke thought as each organization determines its next steps toward its new challenges in Asset Management.