by Heidi | Aug 2, 2024 | Chapter News, Events
What a fantastic evening at the Brisbane Chapter Networking and Social Event! On Wednesday night, our members came together at the Beer Parlour for an evening filled with great conversations, drinks, and nibbles. A big thank you to our sponsors, Detection Services, for their support and for kicking off the event with a warm welcome. It was a pleasure to see everyone discussing the latest in asset management while making new connections in a relaxed, private space.
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by Heidi | Jul 1, 2024 | Chapter News, Events
The Asset Management Council Australia’s Gippsland Chapter, in collaboration with the Centre for Smart Analytics (CSA) and the Institute of Innovation, Science and Sustainability (IISS) at Federation University Australia, successfully hosted an insightful seminar on Digital Twins on Friday evening. The event highlighted applications of this technology in smart homes, industrial settings, and health sector assets.
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by Heidi | Aug 22, 2023
In collaboration with Perth Chapter and Water Corporation, this free event is an opportunity for Young Asset Management Professionals to learn about Asset Management and hear from other young professionals about their career journey.
About the speakers:
Chenoa Lange, Senior Technical Advisor – Wastewater Processes, Treatment & Resource Recovery, Water Corporation
Starting off her career as an Environmental Engineering graduate with the Water Corporation, Chenoa has worked across a wide range of water utility assets for both the metro and country regions. Including drainage, desalination, pump stations, groundwater bores and treatment facilities.
With an interest in operational engineering, she joined the metro operations branch, Treatment & Resource Recovery. Initially as part of the Water Engineering team she managed operational and maintenance requirements of the metro dam safety program, working closely with the field crew and leading minor works.
To further pursue her interests in treatment processes Chenoa then transitioned into the Wastewater engineering team, previously based at the state’s third largest water resource recovery facility, Subiaco. Overseeing regulatory requirements, incident responses and process optimisation works, she thrived in the dynamic and fast paced environment.
Now the Senior TA for the Kwinana/ Mandurah sites she oversees eight sites including oxidation ditch, pond, and membrane treatment facilities.
Thriving for sustainable outcomes in recycling and processing performance improvements she aims for optimal outcomes in identifying and addressing operational limitations. Feeding in lessons learnt and field technical expertise to future projects.
Nyssa MacManus, Senior Advisor Maintenance Solutions, Rio Tinto
Nyssa is an experienced asset management professional with a wide knowledge base in engineering, execution, frontline leadership, and maintenance solution roles over her time in the industry. She graduated with a double degree in Mechanical and Chemical Engineering from Louisiana Tech University.
Her career stretched from the oil fields of Louisiana to the bauxite hills of Far North Queensland and the red dirt of Pilbara, Western Australia. While working she has completed her master’s in engineering and technology Management
Nyssa has had exposure to the ‘whole of life’ asset philosophy through her various roles in the industry, which has allowed her to make improvements and decisions that are not only sustainable but efficient to ensure the most benefit has been obtained from the assets and is economical.
Dylan Pritchard, Specialist – Asset Management System & Risk, Water Corporation
Dylan Pritchard is an experienced environmental scientist and risk management specialist with a strong background in environmental consultancy and risk management in the water industry and contaminated sites.
He worked for an environmental consultancy prior to joining Water Corporation, undertaking contaminated land investigations on behalf of clients in a variety of industries such as mining, government departments and private industry. Dylan transitioned to the Water Corporation, primarily supporting the environmental investigation of treated wastewater reuse schemes across Western Australia at public open spaces, assessing environmental risk of these schemes to ensure water conservation and support the sustainable use of treated wastewater.
Building on experience in environmental science and water management, Dylan currently holds a position in the Asset Strategy business unit at the Water Corporation, leading a project for the automation of risk assessments for supporting the prioritisation of expenditure. Recently, Dylan is involved with forecasting risks from changing climate patterns to infrastructure, leveraging his knowledge of environmental science and risk assessment to integrate climate change considerations into the existing asset management processes.
With thanks to event sponsor:
by Heidi | Aug 3, 2023
Australia is in the middle of an energy revolution. Energy sources are shifting to renewables, from the bulk end of the supply chain to people’s home solar systems. The needs of energy stakeholders, the technology available to Ausgrid and our customers and governmental policy settings also evolving rapidly as a result. The presentation will discuss these changes and their implications, in the context of asset management during the electrification of assets. Observations will be offered from the perspective of the Capability Delivery Model in terms of stakeholder needs, business objectives, systems engineering, acquisition, operations & maintenance, configuration management and continuous improvement.
About the speaker:
Matthew Webb, Head of Asset Investment, Ausgrid
Matt has over 30 years experience in managing all aspects of using power systems to meet customers’ electricity needs, including network planning, asset management, regulation and field management.
As Head of Asset Investment, Matt is responsible for Ausgrid’s long-term electricity network investment needs and opportunities in a rapidly changing operating environment. This includes applying asset management and other techniques to:
- Understand changing customer priorities and how Ausgrid will adapt services to meet customer needs and adoption of new technologies.
- Transform network services through innovation and new capabilities needed to manage complex network power flows and deliver efficient renewables hosting capacity.
- Unlock value of customer DER assets and load flexibility to achieve a reduced overall energy cost for customers and improved network utilisation.
- Ready the network to enable the needs of our customers and stakeholders safely, efficiently and equitably, to facilitate a net zero future.
Matt is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Wollongong, as well as being Ausgrid’s senior representative and a member of the Research Advisory Committee (ReAC) to the RACE for 2030, a national industry led cooperative research centre.
