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Asset management & appraisal

Developing asset management plans and manuals

This paper presents an overview of the issues, principles and processes involved in adopting best practice in asset management to improve resource allocation and maintenance decisions.

It also presents the rationale behind putting together an asset management plan and offers approaches to undertaking this process.

The paper explores the following areas of asset management:

- Objectives of activities
- Life cycle functions
- Matching outputs and inputs
- Key activities
- Asset management plans
- Managing corporate issues
- Improvement programs
- Asset audit and management review

 

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