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Clear, practical guides to the core concepts, metrics, and methods behind reliable maintenance — written to help you apply them on the floor, not just define them.
Asset Management
8 guides
Asset Hierarchy
A practical guide to designing parent-child asset hierarchy, functional location, and maintainable-item structures that support work management, cost reporting, reliability analysis, spare parts, and capital planning.
Open resourceAsset Lifecycle Planning
Asset Lifecycle Planning is the systematic process of planning, managing, optimizing, renewing, and retiring physical assets throughout their entire lifecycle to maximize organizational value while balancing performance, cost, risk, and sustainability.
Open resourceAsset Management Fundamentals
Asset management connects business objectives to consistent lifecycle decisions about physical assets, balancing value, performance, cost, and risk.
Open resourceAsset Register Development
A practical guide to building, validating, governing, and maintaining an asset register that supports maintenance execution, reliability analysis, cost visibility, capital planning, and CMMS/EAM data quality.
Open resourceAssets and Asset Classification
A practical guide to defining, organizing, and classifying physical assets so maintenance teams and asset-intensive business owners can use consistent asset language across hierarchy, register, work history, cost, risk, and reliability decisions.
Open resourceCapital Investment Planning
Capital Investment Planning is the systematic process of identifying, evaluating, prioritizing, funding, and governing capital investments in physical assets to maximize long-term organizational value while balancing performance, cost, risk, and opportunity.
Open resourceEquipment History
Equipment history is the accumulated, structured record of an asset's maintenance activity — work performed, failures experienced, parts consumed, costs incurred, and condition data collected — over its operating life.
Open resourceLifecycle Cost Analysis
Lifecycle cost analysis evaluates the present value of relevant costs — and, where included, benefits — over a defined analysis period to support defensible procurement, repair-versus-replace, and renewal decisions.
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