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Asset management & performance

Asset management & performance

Across the globe, asset owners are facing the ever-increasing challenge of balancing service levels, asset performance, risk and expenditure to sustain assets over their lifecycle.

Critical infrastructure is under pressure to support the needs of a rapidly changing society. In turn, public authorities are faced with the challenge of managing assets efficiently and cost effectively.

Safeguarding asset utilisation is becoming more relevant in customer facing organisations in sectors such as energy, transport, water, education and health where disruptions can impact service availability, safety and reputation. An effective asset management program is also fundamental in sectors such as resources, oil and gas, and manufacturing, where lost production capability has an immediate impact on the financial bottom line. And for defence and national security, asset management and performance is critical to mission ready success.

Our difference

We know what asset drivers impact our clients’ bottom line. Our deep knowledge of asset management comes from our history of working with asset owners around the globe, backed by our extensive delivery in asset design. We partner with asset intensive organisations to help them achieve and maintain quartile one performance, which means delivering a more profitable, sustainable, and future-right operation.

Our experience, knowledge and data sets allow us to provide an independent and validated perspective to our clients’ organisations. Our cross-functional team enables us to work at all levels, appreciating that sustainable change does not just come from the top. Our commercial lens, combined with our engineering backbone, enables us to ensure our clients’ decisions are about a better business, not just a better asset. We operate across the entire asset lifecycle, enabling us to bridge technical outcomes with business requirements.

We are unlike our competitors. We know assets because we design them. We know what drives asset performance based on an independent validated global perspective and are able to join technical engineering with commercial outcomes. Together with our digital leadership and strength through diversity, we can establish an integrated lifecycle management program to inform investment decisions and optimise our clients’ assets, from sustaining capital programs through to asset management transformation initiatives.

How we deliver

With significant industry experience in all lifecycle phases, Aurecon’s asset management and performance specialists understand the challenges faced by asset owners. This enables us to provide rapid, innovative solutions in the planning, design, preservation and use of assets to extract value and manage cost.

We work to understand your organisation and the challenges you face, to co-design the right solution. Our team of subject matter experts can assist with decision support across your assets’ lifecycles from strategy through to operations and performance transformation. Our knowledge of assets, operations, data and technology can also assist in ensuring you realise full value from your assets, locking in or accelerating performance improvements.

Our capability and service offerings

Asset management strategy

Creating an integrated asset management framework and strategy, which aligns to your organisation's objectives, is the foundation for optimising asset value and achieving the right balance of cost, productivity and risk. We help you with:

Asset management opportunity and maturity assessments
Asset management performance transformation
Strategic Asset Management Planning (SAMP) and Asset Management Planning (AMP)

To design your framework, contact Asset Management Strategy Lead Francois Joubert.

Quartile One capital performance

Capital investment decisions are critical to achieving quartile one performance and for the sustainability of asset intensive organisations. We help boards and executives know that they are making the right choice at the right time for the right reasons through services including:

M&A Target Valuation
Capital planning and management
Demand modelling and debottlenecking
Fleet and asset modelling
Asset management partnerships

To assess your capital investment opportunities, contact Capital Performance Lead Rob Beckman.

Operations performance

Operational performance is the basis for profitability and value creation for shareholders. Optimising people, processes and systems elements, along with embedded operational discipline are critical to achieving quartile one performance. Our operations performance services include:

Operations readiness
Operations leadership and performance transformation
Shadow operator
Operations metrics
Asset management partnerships

To optimise your people, processes and systems, contact Operations Performance Lead Matt Robbins.

Asset reliability services

Aging infrastructure, scarcity of capital and strengthening regulatory requirements are forcing asset owners to implement improvements in asset reliability to lower operating costs and to extend existing asset life. We can help with:

Integrity and condition assessments
Condition monitoring and predictive maintenance
Reliability modelling
Maintenance strategy and tactics
Root cause and failue analysis
Life extension / remediation
Asset management systems readiness and leverage

To lower operating costs and extend the life of your assets, contact Asset Reliability Services Lead Neil Naismith.

Asset assurance

Asset assurance is the basis for providing boards and executives visibility of the risks associated with their asset bases. By identifying and quantifying both threats and opportunities, we work with clients to identify and implement mitigations through services including:

Asset performance risk assessment
Process safety technical risk management
Asset resilience
Asset management of change

To understand the risks and opportunities inherent in your asset base, contact Asset Assurance Lead Delene Kock.

Technology value realisation

Used well, technology accelerates the path to lifting business performance, and provides mechanisms to sustain these gains. We help asset intensive organisations to navigate the technology landscape, providing services to realise the full value from investments in technology and achieve quartile one performance. Our services include: