AM:ISO 55000:2014 – Asset Management System

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) released its first series of standards on asset management in January 2014. ISO 55000 defines Asset management as the “coordinated activity of an organization to realize value from assets”. In turn, Assets are defined as follows: “An asset is an item, thing or entity that has potential or actual value to an organization”. This is deliberately wider than physical assets but these form an important focus for more organizations.
(NB there are important qualifying Notes to these definitions, which are set out in ISO 55000). Asset Management involves the balancing of costs, opportunities and risks against the desired performance of assets, to achieve the organizational objectives. This balancing might need to be considered over different timeframes.
Asset management also enables an organization to examine the need for, and performance of, assets and asset systems at different levels. Additionally, it enables the application of analytical approaches towards managing an asset over the different stages of its life cycle (which can start with the conception of the need for the asset, through to its disposal, and includes the managing of any potential post disposal liabilities).

Asset Management is the art and science of making the right decisions and optimizing the delivery of value. A common objective is to minimize the whole life cost of assets but there may be other critical factors such as risk or business continuity to be considered objectively in this decision making.

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