Best practices to transform comprehensive asset management in the natural gas industry as a business strategy into a profitability center

Abstract

This article describes the models and implementation strategies of the Assessment and Implementation of Asset Man-age-ment with ISO 55000 to ensure that the natural gas industry operates aligned with business requirements to maintain its design capacity, eliminating waste and increasing efficiency operations, establishing a starting point for a scientific way to define strategies, tactics and operational actions which must be executed to achieve good practice in the management of physical assets will be. Applying the three 3P methodology that identifies and analyz-es the opportunities for improvement in the 5 key areas of business: Resources for maintenance and operations, information technology, preventive maintenance and technology, planning and scheduling, and operations and maintenance support, under the requirements defined in the standard, making a quantitative and qualitative data analysis and identifying areas to enhance and good practice based on the 28 requirements of Standard. Monitoring and control of the efficiency and effectiveness of maintenance (implementation of specific indicators), improving the efficiency of the maintenance function (implementation of predictive strategies) and cost reduction (plan: conclusion based on two objectives is proposed plan asset substitution).