Don’t miss your chance to increase your economic value by attending sessions at AMPEAK, Perth, 2-5 June 2014.
Leverage relationships; strengthen your position in the market and your organisation’s competitiveness.
See below how your industry is represented at AMPEAK 2014, and what you stand to gain…
Water, Power, Rail, Resources & Energy, ISO 5500X
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Water
The Maintenance Planning and Strategy Stream (Thursday 5 June) features a presentation on Maintenance of Water and Hydrocarbons Assets. Featuring discussion on the roles of intellect versus instinct in this field, the presentation aims to help you in changing the painful planning of maintenance of water and hydrocarbons to a more practical method, helping you to understand your ongoing strategy for maintenance.
The Business Performance Stream (Wednesday 4 June) features a presentation from Sydney Waters on decision-making for their Water Main Asset Management Strategy.. Sydney Water, an organisation with 21,000 km of water mains, owned by Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) as the economic regulator, discusses how to build the level of services and customer value into the asset management strategy and decision framework to optimise capital investment programs.
Rail
The RAMS Stream (Tuesday 3 June): presents a case study from Perth’s Metropolitan Rail Network. This presentation will cover improving Points Reliability, using Perth’s Metropolitan Rail Network as an example. This presentation will discuss the strategy, reliability principles and the asset management practices adopted.
The Condition Monitoring Stream (Wednesday 4 June) features a paper on eliminating systematic problems in Condition Monitoring Programs. This presentation contains information about how to Process Map plateaued Condition Monitoring (CM) and gives several examples of performance measures for each step. It will also help you learn about why effective CM program should be identifying and solving systemic problems through the use of Precision Maintenance initiatives
The Continuous Improvement Stream (Wednesday 4 June) features a presentation on a train unloading facility defect elimination program. This presentation discusses how a total of 4% of availability increase was achieved in an Iron Ore Train Unloader facility. A mixture of six sigma and other tools were used to identify causes of loss, which helped later in implementing corrective action. You will learn a number of tools and tricks of how to improve availability.
The Maintenance Planning and Strategy Stream (Thursday 5 June) features a discussion about how – in only twelve months – Metro Trains Melbourne (MTM) transformed its previous disjointed asset management practices into a coherent asset management system certified to PAS 55. In this session you will learn about detailed MTM’s asset management journey so far and it will provide insight into the process of gaining PAS 55 certification, key asset management principles adopted by MTM, benefits of improving asset management practices, and the change management process and continuous improvement.
Resources & Energy
The Business Performance Stream (Wednesday 4 June) features a case study about Western Power’s distribution network method for optimising network investment over a 50 year period. The case study will cover developed and tested a modelling tool and real network data. The modelling tool applied: A set of business rules for asset replacement; a capital expenditure model – driven by the business rules; an operating expenditure model – driven by the network state, and; a network optimisation algorithm. This demonstrated that unconstrained lifecycle cost efficiencies in the order of 20% could be achieved through optimal timing of network rebuild and discrete asset replacement.
The Continuous Improvement Stream (Wednesday 4 June): this session presents a case study about OGS in Nigeria. The study shows that there is dearth of information on its usage in engineering asset management (EAM) in the Oil and Gas Services (OGS) industry in Nigeria that needs the highest level of focus. The study examined the extent of the use of CIP in EAM in the OGS industry in Nigeria, covering 60 OGS companies in Nigeria. Data was collected through questionnaire and analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The study revealed that CIP was recently embraced in OGS companies and has their assets performance level. The study concluded that OGS industry were practicing EAM and had introduced CIP.
The Risk Management Stream (Wednesday 4June) features a presentation that discusses how quantitative risk analysis can assist with translating the many disparate variables associated with asset related decisions into a common language facilitating comparison of options and enabling optimisation
The Whole Life Planning and Costing Stream (Tuesday 3 June)features a paper on Asset Management Design. This presentation is designed to help you understand and answer the following question: what is the end game for an asset in its service delivery? The role and importance of user requirements and functional specification, and with that the role of management is covered, as is designing for maintenance, repair, renewal, upgrade, disposal and beyond; the role of the operator in the design process; HAZID and HAZOP and the need to broaden; asset management education for designers; and the missing feedback loop from asset operation to design.
Power
The Maintenance Planning and Strategy Stream (Thursday 5 June) presents a study about one of the South African initiatives in introducing a performance and reliability optimisation (PRO) model at 13 power stations. The investigation indicated that the plant performance did not improve significantly after implementation of the PRO model although there was a significant improvement in preventive maintenance and schedule compliance.
ISO 55000
AMPEAK has a dedicated ISO 5500X Stream (Wednesday 4 June). Features include a presentation on preparing your organisation for ISO 55000 using an Olympic Dam case study. Another presentation on Operations and Maintenance (O&M) and how it requires a close ‘stewardship’ type relationship to ensure that best practice design requirements are documented and considered in the early stages of infrastructure design. Further, a paper will be presented on ISO 55000 and improved project delivery.