Digitising Asset Management and Building a Capable Workforce – Marty Stafford, Assets Manager, Southern Ports

In 2020, Southern Ports set out to transform its existing asset management practices into a world class, fully digital Asset Management System (AMS).

Guided by a clear Strategic Development Plan with a 10-year horizon, and a vision of ‘Strong Regional Ports, Strong Regions, the Board and Executive devised a comprehensive asset management vision and direction. With unwavering leadership and foundations in place, the Asset Management team developed and implemented a fully integrated and digitised AMS, aligned with ISO 55000 and asset management best practice, including the four principles of the Asset Management Council’s Asset Management Concept Model.

Within three years, Southern Ports transitioned from ad hoc, manual asset management – underpinned by paper-based policies, disparate databases and manual record-keeping and analysis – to a fully digitised system. The AMS intrinsically links each element of the organisation’s asset management framework with its core vision and objectives, and it is supported by robust capabilities, assurance systems and a strong culture of learning.

As part of an asset management system transformation, Southern Ports developed and deployed an online continuous learning system and information library to help develop a workforce capable of meeting its asset management objectives.

The process involved an analysis of ‘current state’ staff training and experience, as well as training needs and career path development options. Southern Ports developed a robust methodology for mapping Global Forum on Maintenance & Asset Management (GFMAM) Modules across all role dimensions, capturing key aspects of knowledge, skills and experience, and how they aligned with subject knowledge across the GFMAM subjects.

Training occurred at all three regional port sites, primarily through online modules via a dedicated training management system. The system recorded and retained certification and verification of competencies, in line with Certified Practitioner in Asset Management and World Partners in Asset Management CAMA examination processes.

Asset Management in Synergy – Andre Pratama, Asset Management Lead, Synergy (Electricity Generation and Retail Corporation)

Asset management can be a complex subject and often misunderstood. Synergy has recently progressed its asset management journey and conceptualised an ‘infinity diagram’ model to link many parts of the organisation. This presentation will explore various asset management elements and example studies to illustrate how Synergy has embedded improvements in its asset management practice.

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About the speakers:

Marty Stafford, Assets Manager, Southern Ports

Having spent the past 15 years working in Western Australian mining and regional ports sectors in various Asset Management roles, Marty has a deep understanding of the challenges Asset Managers face in maintaining fit for purpose and ready assets in an ever-changing environment. Leveraging technology and harnessing internal capability has become a focus in meeting asset management objectives now and into the future.

Andre Pratama, Asset Management Lead, Synergy (Electricity Generation and Retail Corporation)

Andre started his career more than a decade ago heavily focusing on project delivery in capital intensive industries. Throughout the journey his priorities changed from meeting quality, cost and schedule in that order, to the balance between cost, benefit and risk. This was accompanied by career moves spanning from Melbourne, Tasmania, Kalgoorlie and now Perth with a few international stints across Asia and Africa.
He has worked with various organisations such as GM Motor, Newcrest, BHP, Water Corp, Rio Tinto and Assetivity. Now he works in Synergy and is continually intrigued by the challenges and complexity of the energy market.