Enterprise asset management (EAM) involves the management of the
maintenance
Maintenance may refer to:
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Non-technical maintenance
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of physical assets of an organization throughout each asset's lifecycle. EAM is used to plan, optimize, execute, and track the needed maintenance activities with the associated priorities, skills, materials, tools, and information.
This covers the design, construction, commissioning, operations, maintenance and decommissioning or replacement of
plant
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, equipment and facilities.
"Enterprise" refers to the scope of the assets in an Enterprise across departments, locations, facilities and, potentially, supporting business functions. Various assets are managed by the modern enterprises at present. The assets may be fixed assets like buildings, plants, machineries or moving assets like vehicles, ships, moving equipments etc. The lifecycle management of the high value physical assets require regressive planning and execution of the work.
History
EAM arose as an extension of the
computerized maintenance management system
A computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), also known as a computerized maintenance management information system (CMMIS), is any software package that maintains a computer database of information about an organization's maintenance o ...
(CMMS) which is usually defined as a system for the computerisation of the maintenance of physical assets.
Enterprise asset management software
Enterprise asset management software is a computer software that handles every aspect of running a public works or asset-intensive organization. Enterprise asset management (EAM) software applications include features such as asset life-cycle management, preventive maintenance scheduling, warranty management, integrated mobile wireless handheld options and portal-based software interface. Rapid development and availability of mobile devices also affected EAM software which now often supports
mobile enterprise asset management
Mobile enterprise asset management (or mobile EAM) refers to the mobile extension of work processes for maintenance, operations and repair of corporate or public-entity physical assets, equipment, buildings and grounds. It involves management of ...
.
See also
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Building lifecycle management
Building lifecycle management or BLM is the adaptation of product lifecycle management (PLM)-like techniques to the design, construction, and management of buildings. Building lifecycle management requires accurate and extensive building informati ...
References
Sources
* {{cite journal , last1=Baird , first1=Gregory M. , title=Defining Public Asset Management for Municipal Water Utilities , journal=Journal - American Water Works Association , date=2011 , volume=103 , issue=5 , pages=30–38 , doi=10.1002/j.1551-8833.2011.tb11449.x
* Physical Asset Management(Springer publication) ''Nicholas Anthony John'',2010.
* Pascual, R. "El Arte de Mantener", Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 2015
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