The Asset Management Conference

City of Hamilton, Ontario Canada – The three levels of Asset Management planning

• Focus on the Strategic Planning Window
• The State of the Infrastructure Report - Long term sustainability requirements
• High level reporting and communication tools
• Accountineering - Accounting and engineering speaking the same language

John Murray, Manager Asset Management, City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

A Canadian perspective of Asset Management within local Governments

• Canadian accounting standards – a catalyst in establishing foundational data for future comprehensive asset management programs
• Type of data being collected and an example of the first State of the Nation Infrastructure Report
• Future holistic reporting of the Canadian infrastructure deficit and its value to senior decision making bodies within the country

Tom Dawe, President, The Public Sector Digest Inc. London, Ontario, Canada
Matthew Dawe, Director Business Development, CityWide Software Solutions – London, Ontario, Canada

City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada – State of the Infrastructure Report (SotI)

• Focus on the Tactical Planning and Project Planning Windows 
• Infrastructure Management Systems, Risk Management, Capital Budget Program Development
• Project Planning - Initiation of key methodologies and delivery

John Murray, Manager Asset Management, City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

GIS – ‘The spatial world of assets’

An insight into how business process improvements and cost savings in the world of managing physical assets can be achieved by leveraging the spatial enablement benefits of GIS technology. TATA discusses the asset lifecycle.

Stephen Field, GIS Specialist, Tata Consultancy Services

Intelligent infrastructure

Improving customer satisfaction and delivering cost savings through the deployment of innovative business process improvements by integrating asset-based telemetry with back-office work and asset management systems.

John Cowell, Strategic Asset Management Specialist, Tata Consultancy Services

Service oriented Asset Management via streamlined customer communications

• The customer
  • Better informed – use of information-push channels such as social media
  • Easier decision making – “I can use the app on my iPhone for that”
  • Demanding better service and quality – ”why not? The RAC can be here in 45 minutes”
• The service provider
  • The past – the issues, and poor delivery estimation, customer satisfaction
  • The present – silos of information, misalignment, misinterpretation
  • The future – based on informed community service providers, the utility organisation can replace your TV and deliver packages and parcels at the same time. Community-based, multi-skilled and informed workforce

John Cowell, Strategic Asset Management Specialist, Tata Consultancy Services

Leveraging the value of Asset information

• Availability of better, accurate and timely information, aggregated delivered in a many applications and formats
• Data growth and turning it into information – information technology advances have created an exponential growth of data that will continue to grow and become more complex
• Academia and research, augmented reality, intelligent white goods, Smart Metering, Home Area Networks (HANs) internet of things, sensory intelligent networks, mobile phone sensors

John Cowell, Strategic Asset Management Specialist, Tata Consultancy Services