This is the essential backbone and foundation for Asset Care Excellence when developing initiatives, strategies, and practices. It is required to maintain assets in an optimal, reliable, predictable, and dependable condition.

AIM objectives set the expectation that mission critical assets will perform their function to protect health, safety, and the environment. This must be accomplished by mitigating risks, prevent disruptions to the business.

Having the correct organizational structure is in place is required to effectively manage initiatives. It is crucial the organization cohesively interfaces with peripheral functions for holistic align with business goals and objectives.

A CMMS much be used to capture relevant asset and maintenance information. It is required for making informed, data-driven life cycle costing decisions. This information is crucial for forecasting the timing of repairs versus replacement strategies.

Correctly identifying equipment is important to ensure maintenance activities are correctly collected against the right equipment. This information is crucial for life cycle cost analysis, asset performance reporting, and for financial planning.

The ME function must react to asset failures to understand sequences of events, interviewing witnesses, and evaluating data to resolve issues expeditiously and permanently. They interface with Reliability Engineers as closed loop system.

Effectively deployed maintenance tasks require accurate, well written document, containing concise level of detail. They must be easy to follow, use 'included in' to prevent work duplication, includes required skills, and allocates appropriate time to execute work.

Inventory control is important for keeping assets in optimal condition by ensuring the right parts are kept on hand in the right quantities and in the right location. Parts must be available when required, especially for mission critical systems.

Work performed by maintenance requires a robust program to ensure assets are maintained when required and at the right time. This ensures efficiently and effectively keeping them in optimal condition and performance levels.

The RE role proactively applies Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) to ensure standardization, maintenance tactics, operating strategies, training, documentation, and inventory are all in place prior to assets going into service.

Strategic initiative focused on improving the reliability, availability, and performance of systems, equipment, and processes within an organization by fully integrating maintenance, operations, engineering, and organizational practices to achieve long-term efficiency and cost-effectiveness

Effectively controlling work is vital to ensuring maintenance tasks are planned, sequenced, scheduled, and executed effectively. This helps keep assets running optimally and requires discipline, a well-defined process flow, and is a closed-loop process.

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