Global Standardisation For Managing Assets
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Smelters
Strategic Asset Management Plans Across Three Aluminium Smelters
Shivaan Asset Management developed strategic and asset management plans across three aluminium smelters, with ISO 55000 as the baseline.
- Three aluminium smelters, one aligned criticality basis
- 3 smelters
- Each smelter's Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP), distilled to a single A3
- 1 page
- Asset Management Plans for business-critical asset types
- 23 AMPs
In brief
- 3 Strategic Asset Management Plans (SAMPs) and 23 Asset Management Plans (AMPs) for business-critical asset types, across three aluminium smelters.
- Business-critical asset types were identified against the client's Business Criticality Asset Standard, so all three sites rank criticality on the same basis.
- Plans were built with the people who run the assets, through site visits covering lifecycle management, operating and capital expenditure, risk and vendor management.
- Each smelter's SAMP is distilled to a single A3 page and displayed on site, so the link between daily work and the plant's objectives stays in plain view.
Challenge
Three aluminium smelters, each running assets the business cannot operate without. Each smelter operates and maintains those assets in its own specific way, and the information that described them sat across internal tools and systems.
The client's strategic plans set a clear direction for the aluminium business. What each smelter needed was the translation. Which assets are business-critical here? What must they achieve for the strategy to hold? How should each be managed across its lifecycle? Without that link, every site answers those questions differently, and people, operations, language and systems slowly drift apart.
Approach
Shivaan Asset Management worked to the client's own Asset Management Standard and Business Criticality Asset Standard, with ISO 55000 as the baseline and foundation. Business-critical asset types were identified against the Business Criticality Asset Standard, so all three sites ranked criticality on the same basis. The plans were then adapted to how each plant specifically operates, keeping the end goals the same across the three sites.
The work was grounded in the data. We gathered and homogenised asset information from the internal tools and systems each site relied on, so every plan stood on one consistent picture of the assets in scope. From there, the engagement ran through the people who live with those assets every day.
- Asset Management Plans (AMPs) built with the people who run the assets at each plant: engineering, operations, health and safety, general and maintenance managers, engineers, technicians and vendors
- Site visits to understand each asset's lifecycle management in practice: how it is operated and maintained, its operating expenditure (OPEX) and capital expenditure (CAPEX), risk management and vendor management
- Training, support and tooling needs assessed during the site visits, including the records and information teams need to manage the assets well
- Business objectives translated with asset and general managers into a Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP) on a page: a single-page plan for each smelter
- Each SAMP printed as an A3 page and displayed on site, so everyone can see what their site must achieve to support the Aluminium asset strategic plans
Outcomes
Shivaan Asset Management delivered 3 Strategic Asset Management Plans and 23 Asset Management Plans for business-critical asset types across the three sites. Each smelter now holds plans built the same way and weighed against the same business criticality standard.
The alignment reaches further than the documents. People, operations, language and systems now pull in the same direction: criticality is described the same way at every site, so risk and spend are discussed in one language across the aluminium operations. And because each SAMP hangs on the wall as a single A3 page, the link between daily work and each plant's objectives stays in plain view.
- One consistent asset language across engineering, operations and management
- Criticality ranked on the same basis at all three smelters
- Business objectives visible on site, on a single page, for every team
- Plans built from site visits and field engagement at each smelter
Frequently asked questions
What is a Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP)?
On this engagement the SAMP is the translation between the business objectives and what a site must achieve to support them. It was worked through with asset and general managers and distilled to a single page, so each smelter can see the direction it is working to without reading a document.
How is a SAMP different from an Asset Management Plan (AMP)?
The SAMP sits at the site level and sets what the smelter must achieve. The AMPs sit under it, one for each business-critical asset type, and set out how those assets are managed across their lifecycle: how they are operated and maintained, their operating and capital expenditure, risk management and vendor management. Three SAMPs and 23 AMPs were delivered.
How was criticality kept consistent across the three sites?
Business-critical asset types were identified against the client's own Business Criticality Asset Standard, with the client's Asset Management Standard and ISO 55000 as the baseline. Because every site was assessed on that same standard, criticality is described the same way at each of them, so risk and spend are discussed in one language.
Why is each SAMP printed as a single A3 page?
So it can hang on the wall and be read. Displaying the plan on site keeps the link between daily work and the plant objectives in plain view, rather than leaving it in a document that only a few people open.
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