Abstract
The Global Forum on Maintenance and Asset Management (GFMAM) was formed in 2011 to bring together various experts, practitioners, academics, and other professionals who are active in the field of asset and maintenance management. The primary mission of GFMAM is to develop and promote knowledge, standards, and education for the maintenance and asset management professions. To fulfil this mission, GFMAM developed an ‘Asset Management Landscape’ document, which defines 39 subjects on asset management, grouped into six main subject areas. This paper reports on two surveys that were conducted to determine the importance of the 39 asset management subjects. Respondents were requested to rate the importance of each of the 39 subjects on a five-point scale. Results from the survey indicated that the five most important subjects are ‘asset management strategy and objectives’, ‘asset management policy’, ‘strategic planning’, ‘asset management planning’, and ‘asset management leadership’.
Highlights
The Global Forum on Maintenance and Asset Management (GFMAM) was formed in 2011 to bring together various experts, practitioners, academics, and other professionals who are active in the field of maintenance and asset management
4.1 Overview The 39 asset management subjects identified by GFMAM provide a useful range of knowledge areas that asset managers would need in order to perform their normal functions
Another group of part-time students who were enrolled for an Honours degree in the Management of Technology were targeted by the questionnaire, but only those students enrolled for the maintenance management course were selected
Summary
1.1 BackgroundThe Global Forum on Maintenance and Asset Management (GFMAM) was formed in 2011 to bring together various experts, practitioners, academics, and other professionals who are active in the field of maintenance and asset management. In the organisation’s history, it was found that the area of asset management is not well-defined or demarcated. A need was expressed to develop a document that would summarise the basic principles of asset management and define the knowledge areas or subjects that describe this field. The ‘landscape’ project was launched; its main purpose was “to provide a framework and define the content, principles and guidelines for asset management” [1]. Version 1 of the asset management landscape was released in 2011, whereas Version 2 was only released early in 2014. Version 2 was intended as a “framework to enable asset management knowledge and practices to be compared, contrasted and aligned around a common understanding of the discipline of asset management” [1]
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