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TABLE OF CONTENTS1. PURPOSE22. SCOPE23. REFERENCES24. TERMS, DEFINITIONS & ABBREVIATIONS35. RESPONSIBILITY AND AUTHORITY36. RECORD & DATA KEEPING37. DOCUMENT variegate HISTORY38. summation focus DEFINITION49. STAKEHOLDERS410. STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS411. summation guidance QUALITY FRAMEWORK512. summation MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES513. asset MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT PROCESS1014. ASSET MANAGEMENT STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT1115. ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM COMPONENTS1116.CONCLUSION18 LIST OF FIGURES configuration 21 Scope of plus counsel mannikin (PAS55)2 Figure 121 Rand peeing return and shade formations6 Figure 122 plus heed envisions7 Figure 123 plus focusing homework and worry bodily structure8 Figure 124 Organogram9 Figure 151 plus precaution carcass of rules Components12 1. PURPOSE The purpose of this papers is to provide a theoretical account for the bankers acceptance and carrying into action of summation caution for Rand peeings phy sical summation portfolio. 2. SCOPEThis framework applies to physical assets associated with production infrastructure on a lower floor the jurisdiction of Rand Water. summations populate of buildings and ripety, pipelines, civil structures, mechanical equipment, electrical equipment weewee system system treatment abut plants, and automation equipment. It excludes human assets, financial assets, schooling assets, intangible assets, and movable equipment. Figure 21 Scope of asset direction Framework (PAS55) 3. REFERENCES The sideline documents must be read in conjunction with this Framework. medicoument Title Document zero(prenominal) Location Quality prudence g everyplacening body Requirements ISO 90012000 RW program library environmental focusing System Requirements ISO140012004 RW program library Occupational Health and Safety deed and Regulations OHS prompt (85 of 1993) RW Library Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series OHSAS 180012007 RW Librar y International Infrastructure Management Manual S show uph Africa Edition 2006 ISBN No0-473-10685-X RW Library summation Management Part 1 Specification for the optimized direction of assets BSI PAS 55-12008 RW Library addition Management Part 2 Guidelines for the application of PAS 55-1 BSI PAS 55-22008 RW Library Rand Water Strategic Asset Management border Guides K right off Your Assets RW surface-to-air missile 60001 BPM SIS RW Library 4. TERMS, DEFINITIONS & ABBREVIATIONS These argon edges apply in the presidential term & be unique to the company terminology, championship and culture. AMAsset ManagementAMFAsset Management Framework deoxyadenosine monophosphateAsset Management Plan KPIKey Performance Indicators O&MOperations and guardianship R&DResearch and using RWRand Water SAMStrategic Asset Management 5. RESPONSIBILITY AND AUTHORITY The Chief executive director is accountable and Portfolio Heads be prudent for the capital punishment of Asset Management i n RW. The General Manager Strategic Asset Management is responsible for the consumeation of Strategic Asset Management with regards to production infrastructure chthonic the jurisdiction of Rand Water. 6. RECORD & DATA KEEPING Record Document Form/Doc Number Location Retention Period 7. DOCUMENT CHANGE HISTORYThe pursuance table contains the history of this document with a description of each re muckle. employment Previous revision number New revision number comment of each revision 23 Sep 2010 N/A 0 First bill of exchange 17 Nov 2010 0 A Second draft 10 Dec 2010 a B Third draft 17 Feb 2011 b C Fourth draft 9 Mar 2011 c D Fifth draft 8. ASSET MANAGEMENT DEFINITION The following definition for asset sleep withment is encountered, ground on PAS 55 Asset Management is the systematic and coordinated activities and coiffes with which Rand Water optim each(prenominal)y make loves its assets, their associated motion, risks and exp residualitures oer their lifecycle f or the purpose of achieving its schemeal strategical plan. 9. STAKEHOLDERSThe following stakeholders atomic number 18 relevant to asset solicitude * Customers who purchase water from Rand Water * Suppliers and proceeds providers * G everywherenment * Standards politics and * Auditor General of South Africa. 10. STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS The following legislation and formula are relevant Annual Financial Statements are begd to be prepared in compliance with the South Afri puke Statements of Gener eithery accept Accounting Practice (SA GAAP), the Water answers be No 108 of 1997, Companies Act No 61 of 1973, and the Public Finance Management Act No 1 of 1999 as amended. The Constitution (and its amendments) secures the right of every Citizen to sufficient waterThe Water Act visits that everyone has access to water, water resources are conserved, protected and managed, proper water resource planning takes place, the costs of managing and developing the resource is communicate and that water resource institutions are established. The Water Services Act defines the rights to grassroots water tot, the scene of national standards and norms, water service planning, regulation of water work, establishment of water boards, the monitoring of water service provision and the packaging of impelling water resource forethought and conservation. The Water Services Act is supported by the Strategic Framework for Water Services which sets out an death penalty framework for the Act and gives effect to the regulation of water services delivery.The principle objectives of the PFMA are to secure transparency, accountability, and sound management of the revenue, expenditure, assets and liabilities of the institutions to which this Act applies. In terms of this Act, from an asset management perspective Rand Water is * responsible for the effective, streamlined, frugal and transparent social occasion of the resources of the department, trading entity or constitution al institution * responsible for the management, including the unspoilt-guarding and the concern of the assets, and for the management of the liabilities The Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) (85 of 1993, plait Regulations) state that the owner of any structure (incl. nfrastructure such as waterworks, buildings, drain works and roads) to maintain such structure in a personal demeanor that the structure remains safe for continued use and such aliment records shall be kept and made getable to an inspector for continued use. 11. ASSET MANAGEMENT QUALITY FRAMEWORK The nurture of an ISO Standard for Asset Management is currently in progress. The ISO Standard development is being led by the British Standards Institute (BSI) as secretariat and there are 22 countries participating and 14 countries observing. South Africa is participating with re face upation from the SABS. The ISO standard is pass judgment to be launched in late 2011. The final ISO standard is pass judgme nt to be substantially aligned with the current PAS55 limitedation for asset management, which has widespread espousal around the world by twain(prenominal) public and private enterprises.Rand Water allow adopt the PAS55 specification as an interim framework for the slaying of asset management until the launch of the ISO Quality Standard for Asset Management. once the ISO Quality Standard has been launched, Rand Water jackpot evaluate the formal acceptance of the Quality Standard within the organization. 12. ASSET MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES The strategic assets of Rand Water work together as one large system, for which custodianship is instaurationate to the Senior Manager Assets. However, the Rand Water assets can currently be adjourn into 4 main supply systems and 2 main purification systems, on the basis of geography and function.The systems are the following * Eikenhof confer System * Zwartkopjies come out System * Palmiet Supply System * Maplet on Supply System * Vereeniging Purification System * Zuikerbosch Purification System These systems are shown in the frame of reference below. Figure 121 Rand Water Supply and Purification Systems The management objectives of the Supply Systems are somewhat contrary from the management objectives of the Purification Systems. The management objectives of the Supply Systems are foc employ on satisfying commercial client service aims, managing current and future user beseech, and managing water delivery including water conveyance, pumping, storing, and end user delivery control.The Purification System management objectives revolve around managing the purification of raw water to agreed quantity and quality service directs. Given the vast order of magnitude of the assets under Rand Water control and the distinguishable management objectives, it is prudent to abrupt the asset management planning responsibility according to the unalike supply systems and whence roll these plans u p into a consolidated Asset Management Plan (AMP) for the entire organization. This is shown schematically below. Eikenhof Supply System AMP Zwartkopjies Supply System AMP Palmiet Supply System AMP Mapleton Supply System AMP Vereeniging Purification System AMP Zuikerbosch Purification System AMP Rand Water Consolidated AMP Figure 122 Asset Management PlansAlthough the management objectives and the planning are logically split according to the useable areas above, the technological expertise is asset type specific and cuts crosswise the different practicable areas. Seven areas of technical expertise pay back been identified below and a distributor pointed breakdown of assets is provided in Annexure A. 1. Buildings and Property 2. Civil Structures 3. Pipelines 4. Electrical Equipment 5. robotic Equipment 6. Process Plant and 7. mechanisation Equipment. In order to effectively manage the asset portfolio, planning should done by functional area, with each functional area being assigned to one Asset Management Planner.The technical expertise of managing the assets is lift out arranged by asset group and should be headed by an Asset Manager. The Asset Management Planner should have expertise in planning and the primary management responsibility of developing and experienceing Asset Management Plans for each Supply System. This includes define service takes, forecasting demand, integration, optimised conclusion making, and developing persistent term financial plans. The Asset Manager should have a strong technical background in design, rehabilitation, and care of the asset group and the primary management responsibility of optimally managing the lifecycle of the asset group, bursting charge in mind the priorities and constraints of each Supply System.This includes managing term entropy collection, tasking asset risk, setting standards, and the development of maintenance and rehabilitation strategies. These two groups give move in a matrix stru cture as shown below. Figure 123 Asset Management Planning and Management Structure It should be noted that the Asset Managers help the Asset Management Planners develop the best asset management strategies to achieve the specific objectives of the Supply System. For example, the schema to manage pumps in a Supply System may be different from the outline to manage pumps in a Purification System as the pumps pose different risks to the achievement of the management outcomes.Even between two different Supply Systems, standardised pumps may have different strategies as they may pose different risks to each particular Supply System. The organogram under the Senior Manager Assets is shown below. Figure 124 Organogram There is substantial integration necessary between all the units under the Senior Manager Assets to implement effective asset management practices. These interfaces will mature with the implementation of a structured asset management emolument figure out. 13. 14. ASSET MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT PROCESS Rand Water is at the grounding portray of the implementation of asset management as a holistic practice crossways its structure.A new structure has been formed under a strategic asset manager and the mandate has been given for the structure to implement asset management best practice. The strategic asset manager now require to proceed with the implementation bidding. The process for the adoption of asset management within Rand Water follows the fire advocated by PAS55 with additional guidance from the IIMM. The process starts with the development of an asset management constitution that is aligned with the strategic objectives of the organization. The polity then guides the development of an asset management strategy, which is a set of actions, to change asset management within the organization.The strategy inevitably to be utilise in a style that develops internal aptitude in the organization to execute the asset management practices as a part of insouciant business. A process of feeler management then take awayfully to be adopted to take care that the asset management capabilities are further unquestionable and refined with age. The asset management strategy implementation will require substantial change management to raise the capability from awareness through to integration. The process is shown in the table below. Asset Management insurance policy Asset Management schema Strategy Implementation Improvement Management What is it? in general outlines how and why AM will be undertaken across the presidency as a in all. Specifies actions to be undertaken to improve AM capability to achieve specific objectives. Implementation of the identified actions . Continuous refinement of the strategy and implementation of rewrite actions. Objective Provides the placemental foundation and mandate to undertake AM in a structured and coordinated manner. Develops a structured set of actions aimed at change AM within the giving medication. Develops internal capability to implement and sustain AM practices. Refines AM capabilities through continuous structured onward motion management. Description * organisational con school text, importance of AM * Organizational vision and goals and AM vision and goals * AM policies underpinning AM goals * Key performance measures for policies incl. imeframes * AM responsibilities and relationships * AM integration with business processes * Description of current practices * Description of required practices to achieve AM vision and goals * credit of the gap between current practices and future vision * Identification and description of strategies to close the gaps in a structured manner * gentility of awareness across the organization * Developing of technical taking into custody * Embedding of AM practices through application * Integration of AM practices to achieve multi-disciplinary AM benefits * optimization of AM practices through refineme nt and enhancement * Innovation of new and best practices that deliver step changes rather than incremental change 15. ASSET MANAGEMENT STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT The asset management strategy specifies the actions that look at to be undertaken to develop, improve and embed asset management capacity within the organization in order to achieve the corporate objectives.The process of strategy development is to assess the organizations asset management system by means of an asset management practices inspect, which compares the organizations current asset management practices against the emergencys of PAS 55 and international best practice. The audit is made against the asset management system components that comprise asset management within the organization. The identified best practice gaps are prioritized and programmed in an asset management strategy to drive improvement. Furthermore, the audit provides a benchmark to measure organizational improvement and maturity date annually. 16. ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM COMPONENTS The asset management system is a whole of life asset management framework that reflects the management and control level in the organization as come up as the different stages of the asset lifecycle i. e. he system addresses the strategic, tactical and useable management of the organization as well as the planning, implementation and asset care phases of the asset lifecycle. remark that the disposal stage is included under the asset care phase. The asset management system components illustrated below provide a high level structure for the strategy development. Each component should be reviewed in detail to determine the level of maturity of current practices, the best curb maturity level, and to define the actions required to achieve best practice. The components are shown in the figure below and described in greater detail in the text that follows.FIGURE PROVIDED SEPARATELY Figure 151 Asset Management System Components Strategic Management Co mponents Asset Management constitution and Strategy An Asset Management Policy is a description of an organisations approach to Asset Management. It provides both the link between the overall organisational strategic plan and an effective Asset Management Plan, and also provides the start of the rationale that ultimately justifies every Asset Management activity the organisation undertakes. An Asset Management Strategy documents the organisations overall approach to managing physical assets. It describes how the Asset Management Policy is to be implemented.As such it needs to be closely aligned with that policy as well as linking to other(a) associated higher level strategies (e. g. operational strategic plans etc. ) danger Management Policy A hazard Management Policy is a description of an organisations approach to Risk Management. It addresses the management of risk between the strategic, tactical and operational level of management and the linkages between these levels. It i s closely aligned to the Asset Management Policy. statutory Compliance Organisations must be respectabley aware of the duties imposed under legal instruments for all of their activities and must assure its systems and procedures fully comply with the requirements.The organisation should have a system for identifying the laws and regulations applying to all activities involved with physical assets and to ensure its systems and procedures comply with the requirements. Organisational Alignment and Commitment Organizational alignment and commitment across the organization is essential for the victoryful implementation of asset management. The Asset Management Policy, Strategy, and Plans should be aligned with corporate objectives. The asset management strategy implementation should be overseen by a steering committee with representation by departments including finance, corporate, planning, maintenance, operations, and project management. Asset management information and plans shoul d be widely available and used across the organization to inform strategic and tactical plans across the organization.A strong commitment to an asset management improvement process by senior executive management, backed by the availing of adequate resources to implement the process, has turn out to be a significant determinant of asset management success and lead to the realisation of asset management benefits. Asset Management Structure and Responsibilities The definition of roles and responsibilities for the implementation of the Asset Management Strategy is necessary to ensure clarity of purpose and to manage interfaces between line functions. Asset management KPIs should strengthen the accountability towards the implementation of the strategy. Customer Service Level ManagementThe setting and management of Customer Service Levels have substantial influence on the Asset Management Plans, which have the objective of providing the desired level of service in the most cost-effective manner (IIMM). The setting of Customer Service Levels should be undertaken in a consultative basis with customers and should reflect customer expectations. Improvement Actions and Management of Change Improvement actions and management of change are the combined processes, systems and procedures in place in an organisation to specifically swop with corrective actions, preventive actions and continuous improvement actions. Financing StrategyThe financing strategy should quantify the total cost of asset ownership and the funding needs for additional capacity, level of service changes, asset renewal, and maintenance and operations over a long term planning period (20 years). The impact on funding sources and tariff setting should be determined to manage the extra/deficit and to maintain financial sustainability over the long term. Investment finality making should incorporate organizational risk and triple-bottom-line consequences in the synopsis framework. Skills sweetener and Ma nagement Skills Enhancement and Management refers to the processes utilised to manage personnel prepare and development, along with staff retention systems. Tactical Management Components Subgroup Planning call for ForecastingDemand forecasting is the estimation of the change in demand based on population and land use change within a long term planning horizon (20 years). Demand forecasts incorporate several demand influences including service level changes, pricing, customer types, and consumption trends. Several demand forecast scenarios are developed and associated risks are quantified. Failure Prediction (capacity) Capacity disaster divination is the rating of capacity against forecast demand to predict nonstarter time and the associate risks thereof. Failure Prediction (condition) Condition failure prediction is the prediction of asset decay and the associated risks of asset deterioration over time along with the dentification of appropriate asset strategies to manage th e risks. Strategic tutelage Planning The Strategic guardianship Plan documents the continuing suitability, adequacy, effectiveness and efficiency of the Asset assist function by addressing formal compliance audits results, performance against KPIs, nonessential results, progress against previous management reviews, and plans for improvement. Reliability locomotive engineering RAM analysis Reliability, Availability, Maintainability (RAM) Analysis provides organisational risk based assessments to highlight which assets are providing optimised return on investing and are being administered effectively at lowest cost.It involves understanding the fancy of the three critical ingredients and how each affects the other. RAM can be applied at any point in the project lifecycle from concept to operation. However, it is most cost-effective at the early detailed design stage when the required operate parameters are known, equipment designs/vendors have been selected and engineering fe edback from the RAM field of force can still be effectively and efficiently incorporated into the overall design. Asset Lifecycle Analysis Life cycle analysis involves the analysis of all costs associated with owning an asset. It is the sum of all recurring and non-recurring costs over the full life span of an asset or system.It includes the purchase price, installation cost, operating costs, maintenance and upgrade costs and the salvage value at the end of ownership or its useful life. Optimised Decision devising Optimised Decision Making is the process of identifying and prioritising projects/ incumbrances required to manage risks at optimal timing, along with multi-criteria prioritisation based on lifecycle cost and triple-bottom-line based consequence analysis. The decision making is coordinated across service disciplines and functional areas to derive the optimal project/intervention program that results in the best investment for the organization. Investment AnalysisInvestm ent Analysis refers to the evaluation framework and financial analysis used to evaluate the viability of the investments and to inform investment decision making. Investment analysis includes financial modelling and the quantification of net present value, benefit-cost ratios, risk reduction benefits, societal benefits, etc. Asset Management Plan The Asset Management Plan informs the organization of how the assets will be managed over the long term (20 years) along with a short term implementation plan (5 years). The Asset Management Plan highlights the changes in demand, service levels, and asset condition along with the risks that these pose to the organization.It quantifies the long term funding needs and constraints and explains how the funding will be prioritised between the competing needs. It provides a prioritised short term (5 year) project/intervention program for implementation. It also incorporates the asset management improvement plan, which guides the organization on t he practices to improve over the short term. Subgroup Implementation Lifecycle material body Optimisation Lifecycle Design Optimisation is the process of incorporating lifecycle analysis, maintenance strategy, and maintenance constraints into the design phase to ensure that infrastructure is designed in a manner that minimises the long term lifecycle cost of asset ownership. Operational hardening and CommissioningOperational Readiness is a structured systemic process that is used to prepare for the project operational phase. It is used to ensure that new or modified assets or systems are able to commence operation in the desired and expected manner. It is an integrated, proactive, considered approach to projects that ensures that people are operationally ready, systems are operationally ready, and assets are operationally ready. Commissioning is an integral part of the Operational Readiness process that refers to the execution of the testing, dynamic verification and acceptance pl ans for the assets to ensure the asset has been delivered to the required quality and performance criteria. Equipment StandardisationEquipment Standardisation describes the continual improvement method of simplification the cost of inventory and maintenance, by reducing instances of machinery, materials or spare separate that are one-off or stand-alone compared to others in use at a site. When equipment is standardised, one suite of spare parts can be used, and breeding for personnel is reduced, which in turn reduces overall maintenance cost. Subgroup Asset Care alimony Performance Management (KPIs) Performance metrics (KPIs) are measures of an organisations activities and performance and enable maintenance performance to be monitored against specific targets. Asset StrategiesAsset Strategy Development is the process to ensure that appropriate maintenance activities are performed with best effectiveness and efficiency to allow an organisation to achieve its business objectives at the lowest asset lifecycle cost. Failure Analysis and origin Cause mitigation Failure Analysis and Root Cause Mitigation is the identification of authorization costly failures and mitigation of all possible root causes of such failures. Apollo Root Cause Analysis is an event-based problem solving technique widely used as a leading practice to identify failure modes and effectuate on the process. Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Failure Modes, Effects and cruciality Analysis (FMECA) are reliability based techniques and products that can be used to solve a wide range of reliability problems. Reliability Centred nourishmentReliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) is a process that is used to determine what sort of maintenance needs to be carried out on any physical asset with a focus on preserving its system functions, rather than preserving the equipment. RCM is a logical, structured framework for determining the optimum mix of applicable and effective maintenance acti vities postulate to sustain the desired level of operational reliability of systems and equipment while ensuring their safe and economical operation and support. External benchmarking Benchmarking is a continuous improvement fauna that is used to achieve improved performance by measuring the organisation against other organisations that are identified as exhibiting leading practice worldwide. SustainabilitySustainability is the evaluation of the environmental, economic and social impact of the assets and the extent to which the triple-bottom-line elements are incorporated in the organisations practices. Loss Mapping and Analysis All organisations are working to get competitive returns from their investments in assets. The complexity in plants and equipment through process automation and technology has substantially increased the number of problems that can cause production problems. To identify the source of the problems which contribute to major losses is a very important criter ion to prioritise the process improvement projects. Maintenance/Operations Integration Maintenance/Operations Integration is a management principle with derivative actions, and is designed to combine the organisational functions of theOperations and Maintenance groups in order to become more effective and efficient. Integration ensures that the human resources of both departments have a clear, common and collective purpose to improve the equipment performance, and after the benefits to the business. Operational Risk Analysis (compliance, contingency plan, risk management) The Operational Risk Management (ORM) process is undertaken to identify and quantify risk exposure and then develop suitable strategies, plans and procedures to maximise its upside and minimise its downside exposures. Operational Management Components Subgroup Planning Planning Data Collection (condition, usage, risk)Planning data collection refers to the collection of information for planning purposes, which usual ly includes condition, usage, and risk data amongst other data. This information typically covers the entire asset group and is used to identify projects/interventions that need to be implemented over the planning horizon. Planning education Management (condition, usage, risk, GIS) Planning Information Management refers to application of systems to manage planning information. collect to the different nature of planning and maintenance data, planning data typically does not reside is a CMMS, but rather resides within a GIS and planning database. Linkages between systems are important to allow the transfer of data for planning and analysis. Subgroup ImplementationMaterial and Contract Management (vendor reliability, material management) Vendor Reliability refers to the capacity and capability of a vendor (or group of vendors) to consistently supply goods and services to the client in a timely manner as per define specifications and standards. Materials Management is the complete s et of processes and procedures that are used to ensure that resources other than personnel, tools and equipment are readily available to support all maintenance activities. Subgroup Asset Care Maintenance Information Mgmt (CMMS) Maintenance Information Management entails acquiring, organising, maintaining and retrieving maintenance information.A Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) is a system to assist with the effective and efficient management of maintenance activities through the application of computer technology. It chiefly includes elements such as a Work Order system, as well as facilities for scheduling Routine Maintenance Tasks, and recording and storing Standard Jobs, Bills of Materials and Applications move Lists, and other associated features. Maintenance Identification and Prioritisation Maintenance Identification is the process of defining what needs to be done to an existing asset to either ensure it remains in a state whereby it can perform its state d function, or can be efficiently returned to such a state.Maintenance Prioritisation is the process of determining a ranking or rating for a delimitate amount of work, based on an objective assessment of the importance of the work, in terms of the impact failure of the asset would have. Asset Criticality can be incorporated during this prioritisation process. Preventative Maintenance (inspections, work management) Preventive Maintenance is the systematic care, servicing and inspection of equipment for the purpose of maintaining it in serviceable condition and detecting and eliminating failure modes. The ultimate goal of doing preventive maintenance is to retain the equipment running to its required function and operational standard. Work management covers all procedures that are followed to ensure that maintenance work is carried out in an efficient and effective manner.Work execution procedures are usually enacted by maintenance supervisors or coordinators and apply to work bein g done under the authority of in good order planned and scheduled work orders. Planning and Scheduling (budgeting, short and medium-term planning, scheduling) Maintenance planning and scheduling includes the budgeting, planning and scheduling of equipment maintenance strategies to ensure that activities are performed with optimum effectiveness and efficiency. Health, Safety and Environment Health Safety and Environmental (HSE) management encompasses the systems and procedures that are adopted to reduce the risk of causing deadening to people and the environment that may be associated with the way in which maintenance activities are carried out. Condition Based MaintenanceCondition Based Maintenance is an equipment maintenance strategy based on measuring the condition of equipment in order to assess whether it will fail during some future period, and then taking appropriate action to avoid the consequences of that failure. The condition of equipment could be monitored using Conditio n Monitoring, statistical Process Control techniques, by monitoring equipment performance, or through the use of the Human Senses. The terms Condition Based Maintenance, On-Condition Maintenance and Predictive Maintenance can be used interchangeably. Autonomous Maintenance Autonomous Maintenance refers to the management routine and minor maintenance of equipment without the need or requirement for intervention from a dedicated maintenance team. It is the running repairs and adjustments that can be performed by the operators, before, after and during the use of the machinery.To enable these tasks to be completed effectively, operators need to be trained in the types of adjustments and repairs they are expected to perform, and given a degree of ownership of the equipment. Autonomous maintenance relies heavily on gentility and education to be able to identify the difference between ruler and abnormal operation of the equipment they are operating. Organizational Support Components Inf ormation computer architecture and Business Process Information Architecture is the flow of information and defines where and whom will be updating various data fields to ensure completed information and accountability as it flows through various systems (GIS, CMMS, etc. ) Information flow mapping and allocating responsibility for data management increases the quality of the information.Business Process mapping identifies the process of tasks and responsibilities for the implementation of key processes in the business. 17. CONCLUSION This document provides a framework for the adoption of a structured approach to implement asset management best practice within Rand Water. The document clarifies the arena of asset management, identifies a quality framework to adopt, describes the high level structure and responsibilities, defines an improvement process, and defines the asset management system components that should be developed in the improvement process to implement a whole of life asset management approach within the organisation.The implementation process required to adopt and embed asset management practices in a structured manner is described in this document and is the recommended way forward for Rand Water. Annexure AASSET PORTFOLIOS The following table lists a comprehensive collection of Rand Waters Strategic Assets. The Assets of Rand Water can broadly be grouped into the following portfolios (in alphabetical order) Buildings and Property Civil Structures Pipelines and Servitudes Electrical Equipment Mechanical Equipment Process Plants Automation Equipment Access control Air conditioning CarportsCCTVElectricsEngine Rooms Estates Farms Fencing hassle protection Furniture GardensHostels Houses Interior decorationIntruder detectionLandOffices Passive SecurityPavingPlant uildings SewageStoresWorkshops Encroachment Balancing TanksBarrage structureBridgesCarbonation baysConditioning baysControl WorksCanal Engine RoomsFiltersForebayFlocculators OverflowsPl ant structuresRailway sidingsReservoirsRoadsSediment tanksSumps Air valvesBreak pressure tanksConnectionsCulvertsDeviationsElectrolysisFlow controlIn-line filtersInner liningsIsolation valvesJunctionsMeter chambersNon-return valvesOuter coatingsPipe manufacture plantPipelinesPipeline protectionPressure controlProtectionScour chambersScour valvesServitudesSurveyTunnelsValve chambersWater hammer systemsWater lossesEncroachment BatteriesBattery chargersCablingControl desksControl panelsDistribution boardsEarthingElectricity supplyEmergency generatorsEnergy meteringEnergy managementHarmonic filtersHydro power LightingLightning protectionLV switchgearMimicsMinisubsMotor control centresMotorsMV switchgearPower factor correctionProtectionReticulationRing main unitsSubstationsTransformersUPSsVSDs / soft starters ActuatorsBlowersCompressorsConveyorsCranesCrushersDesludge bridgesDust extractionGatesPipeworkPressure vesselsPumpsValvesNon return valvesSteelworkThickenersSump pumpsVehiclesEarth moving AmmoniaCarbonationChlorineFerric ChlorideGAC filtrationLime burningLime slakingMembraneMilk of lime dosingOzonePoly ElectrolyteRWW treatmentSand filtrationSodium hypochloriteUltra purple lightChemical supplyChemical quality ArchestraCommunicationControl CentresControl schemesFlood controlFlow meteringHuman Machine InterfacesInstrumentation PLCScadaInsql data historiansIndustrial networks Industrial serversIndustrial softwareSW configuration controlTelemetryIntelligent control