Chapter 4: Asset Information Management

Title: Through-life active asset configuration management

Author(s): Mohamed Zied Ouertani, Vijay Srinivasan, Ajith Kumar Parlikad, Eric Luyer, Duncan McFarlane

Address: Engineering Department, Cambridge University, Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX, USA | IBM Corporation and Columbia University, New York, NY, USA | Engineering Department, Cambridge University, Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX, USA | IBM Software Group, Tivoli, Johan Huizingalaan 765, 1066 VH Amsterdam | Engineering Department, Cambridge University, Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX, USA

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2009 pp. 197 - 207

Abstract/Summary: The importance of asset configuration management is increasingly recognised as customers demand safer, higher-quality and lower-priced products. However, traditional configuration management systems have often proved inefficient for managing maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) data because they represent only the last asset configuration. This paper proposes therefore to analyse the current status of the approaches dealing with asset configuration management (ACM) issues. Moreover, the emergence of automated identification and data capture technologies such as RFID and sensors could greatly improve asset configuration management and in a broader way the asset lifecycle management. The concept of active asset configuration management is therefore introduced.

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