Asset management has become an important issue in the energy world. Maximizing the use and performance of the infrastructure assets, while ensuring that quality and reliability are not compromised, is becoming increasingly critical due to various factors, such as:

• pressure to improve service
• regulatory demands
• continuously aging assets
• pressure to reduce costs             

The major challenge facing generation and transmission and distribution utilities today is aligning the management of infrastructure assets with corporate objectives. 

Both technical and business
KEMA approaches asset management from both a business and technical perspective, linking both corporate and utilities' operational objectives with customer expectations, regulatory requirements, financial objectives and other stakeholder goals. 

Our systematic consulting methodology includes:

• developing an in-depth understanding of your business goals and asset base
• analysis and ranking of alternative measures
• development of an implementation plan to achieve maximum benefits from your existing infrastructure components and overall system.    

Our asset management approach addresses the full life cycle of infrastructure assets. This enables utilities to manage these assets comprehensively, balancing performance, costs and risks to achieve the greatest possible return on investment. The payoff is that investment decisions can now deliver the greatest stakeholder value from the available budgets. Our consultancy, spanning from component to system level, ensures consideration of both engineering and managerial issues that affect asset optimization.

Our approach has proven to be effective to help our clients:

• identify efficiency gains
• reduce spending
• improve maintenance programs and replacement strategies
• extend asset life
• manage risks across the company at various levels of detail
• provide transparent expenditure justification required by the regulator.           

For more information please contact us.