Engineering Asset Management - EAM
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Make the right decisions at the right time
Develop, manage, and optimize your technical assets throughout their entire lifecycle.
Make the right decisions at the right time
Develop, manage, and optimize your technical assets throughout their entire lifecycle.
Make the right decisions at the right time
Develop, manage, and optimize your technical assets throughout their entire lifecycle.
Make the right decisions at the right time
Develop, manage, and optimize your technical assets throughout their entire lifecycle.
Strategic asset management
Technical asset management for safe, reliable and profitable facilities.
Managing technical assets is about more than maintaining equipment. It is about making the right decisions at the right time to ensure safety, availability, performance and long-term profitability.
DEKRA helps companies and organisations develop, manage and optimise their technical assets throughout their lifecycle. By combining technical specialist expertise with practical experience, we provide decision support that supports both operational and strategic objectives.
Our services include failure and damage investigations, development of inspection and monitoring programmes, and operational asset management.
Failure and damage investigations
When damage or a failure occurs, it is essential to quickly understand what happened and why. A structured and accurate root cause analysis (RCA) reduces the risk of recurring problems and provides a basis for effective corrective actions.
DEKRA conducts investigations of technical failures and damages of a wide range of industrial assets and infrastructure. We also provide expert support in insurance claims and loss adjustment. Our investigations draw on combined expertise in structural integrity, degradation, materials engineering and non-destructive and destructive testing.
Our investigations and root cause analyses (RCA) include, among other things:
- Systematic analysis of documentation and data, such as design calculations, manufacturing drawings, operational and maintenance logs, and historical failures, deviations or modifications.
- Measurements and load analyses.
- Structural strength calculations and fracture mechanics analyses.
- Materials investigations and fracture surface analysis.
- Development of recommendations and proposals for effective corrective actions.
By combining analysis of available documentation and data with technical analyses and investigations, we identify underlying causes and recommend effective measures to strengthen the safety and reliability of the facility during continued operation.
The objective is not only to understand why a failure occurred, but also to create the conditions for more robust and cost-effective operations going forward.
Development of inspection and monitoring programmes
A well-designed inspection and monitoring programme is the foundation for the safe and efficient management of technical assets. Such programmes are implemented, among other situations, when damage has been identified or when risk areas need to be monitored as part of a life extension programme.
DEKRA helps customers develop tailored inspection and asset management programmes, often based on findings from condition assessments or lifetime assessments. The service combines expertise in non-destructive testing (NDT), degradation and structural integrity. We also provide support in evaluating inspection data and managing deviations.
Developing an inspection and monitoring programme may include:
- Definition of monitoring or corrective action strategies.
- Identification of critical components or areas.
- Analysis of inspection conditions and suitable NDT methods.
- Definition of acceptance criteria and inspection intervals.
- Development of measures to be taken if acceptance criteria are exceeded.
- Support in developing inspection templates and instructions.
- Analysis of NDT data and deviations.
- Support in implementing processes and risk assessments.
By focusing resources on damage mechanisms that limit service life or on components that are most critical to safety and availability, maintenance activities can be optimised while maintaining or reducing the level of risk.
The result is a structured approach that provides better control over the technical condition of the facility and future maintenance needs.
Operational asset management
Effective asset management requires a balance between safety, availability, sustainability and financial considerations. For many organisations, this involves complex trade-offs between maintenance, reinvestment and operational requirements.
DEKRA provides operational support across the field of asset management and helps customers develop structured approaches in accordance with ISO 55000 for the long-term management of technical assets.
Our services include, among other things:
- Operational support for asset managers.
- Support with Life Cycle Cost (LCC) analyses and operational decision-making.
- Development of life extension and reinvestment strategies.
- Project management focused on managing damage issues or implementing effective measures.
- Development and review of instructions, processes and manuals.
- Support with risk assessments and risk-based decision-making processes.
- Development of decision support based on technical analyses and calculations.
By combining technical analyses with the organisation’s financial and operational objectives, we help our customers maximise the value generated by their assets throughout their lifecycle.
Our work is based on established asset management principles, where decisions are fact-based and focused on long-term sustainability.
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