Mobiess Asset Hierarchy Review
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Many asset projects undertaken by FM companies are affected by problems and delays caused by poor asset data. It’s often the case that companies have not considered the strategy or format of their master Asset Hierarchy.
WHAT IS AN ASSET HIERARCHY AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT?
Asset Hierarchy describes systems and components along with individual attributes for each asset type. Your chosen solution should support multiple Asset Hierarchies for different projects and customers.
This is usually presented as a top-down structure, which means that your maintenance professionals can see at a glance the relationship between these assets, following a standard ‘parent/child’ logic.
This information being presented in a way which conveniently connects the assets means that any necessary maintenance is carried out in a timely fashion, any issues can be traced, and the parts and components required for repairs or replacement are easily identified.
Its structure can be aligned to existing classification systems such as Uniclass, Uniformat and NRM in an attempt to unify coding. Don’t be alarmed if not 100% successful as these alignments rarely are. You will likely need to fill in gaps or missing data in each classification.
OUR EXPERTISE
Our Asset Inspector App is used by many FM organisations to conduct asset surveys and to deliver high quality asset data. With many years of experience in the Facilities Management industry, we have seen lots of companies struggling with their inaccurate asset hierarchies. Some asset hierarchies are just way too complicated, contain lots of duplicates or are simply not fit for purpose.
We have decided to take the hard work out of what might just be one of your most important processes in your organisation and help you to devise simplified solution to save you money and time.
Main Benefits
An accurate and updated Asset Hierarchy helps you to:
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- Get the bigger picture of your organisation assets.
- Simplify maintenance and improve traceability of assets.
- Schedule preventative and predictive maintenance.
- Improve uptime while downtime is scheduled efficiently.
- Quickly make adjustments to scope for supporting multiple projects.
- Standardise asset classification across multiple buildings and locations.
- Collect only the data you need for assets and equipment – no more, no less.
- Ensure data consistency throughout your organisation and for all client locations.
- Provide a consistent data collection strategy to all surveyors – remove engineers subjectivity.
Tips to Improve Asset Hierarchy Structure and Data Quality
Keeping in mind your overall company asset strategy:
- Give your asset hierarchy an instinctive and logical structure.
- Follow uniformed approach to asset coding and naming.
- Define asset-specific attributes to ensure consistent level of data capture.
- Audit and update the information included regularly.
