Water Asset Management International 2.1 (2006) 7-10

The AMPLE Tool: Asset Management Program Learning Environment

Steve Allbee

US Environmental Protection Agency
USA

Roger Byrne, Duncan Rose, Andrew Sneesby

GHD
USA

Doug Stewart

Orange County Sanitation District
USA

Modern water asset management requires new and sophisticated tools for effective operation. This paper records how the lessons we have learnt from around the world in asset management over the last twenty years through accumulated knowledge from traditional learning systems have been applied into a web based program-learning environment.

By researching and really understanding the key success factors for cost effective and sustainable asset management improvements across infrastructure rich businesses in both the private and public sectors, the authors hope to be able to show that by web enabling this information, we now have a powerful on line encyclopaedia of asset management knowledge.

This paper answers the two questions asked by asset managers, owners and stakeholders around the world:

• How can we drive logical, sustainable, cost effective asset management across the organisation to derive the benefits available through advanced asset management techniques?
• How do we achieve best value asset service delivery at the lowest sustainable triple bottom line cost for present and future generations of customers and stakeholders?

By working with clients, and users the ideas formed into a product now known as AMPLE - the asset management program learning environment. This paper describes this product and the way it assists clients to answer the above questions and bed down the results in their work practices, attitudes and culture.

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