Asset Management 2023: Life Extension

One Birdcage Walk, London

29 March 2023

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Overview

There is an expectation that that both existing and new infrastructure and equipment will likely be utilised well beyond its design-life. As a result, engineers are increasingly required to extend the operational lives of their assets, and designers must consider the possibility of future life extension.

This seminar will focus on assets old and new, bringing together perspectives from the entire asset lifecycle. It will feature engineers and experts from a range of sectors to address the challenges posed by, and lessons learned from life-extension projects. It is an opportunity for delegates to learn from practices employed in other industries and explore how they can optimise their own strategy for life extension.

Presentations will focus on issues including designing for life extension, the importance of modularity, monitoring of assets and best practice across the whole lifecycle, empowering attendees to rethink how they can get the most value from their assets. There will also be ample opportunities to network with peers across a diverse range of industries, exposing delegates to new ideas and engagement with the wider engineering community.

With a vast array of assets reaching the end of their life, asset management and in particular life extension, are now pertinent. The drive to net-zero along with managing the competing priorities of safety, performance, affordability and sustainability are critical challenges for engineers and particularly relevant for older assets. This event will allow engineers to consider if and how life extension can fit into the current assets that they are working on that are at the end of their life.

Key reasons to attend:

This event will:

Provide insight into modularity and the ways in which it can be implemented in different industries
Highlight the role of design engineers in the life cycle of life extension
Provide a framework for success in building life extension into future designs, with guidance from key high-level regulators and stakeholders
Showcase examples of successful strategies employed to manage life extension in a broad range of sectors

Look forward to learning:

How new assets can be designed and commissioned with a proactive understanding of late-life operation
Identify required maintenance and upgrades to economically allow existing infrastructure to continue operating beyond design-life
How to make decisions about when to replace equipment vs. extending its life
How new assets can be designed and commissioned with a proactive understanding of late-life operation

Join this seminar to:

Understand the role of people, process, data, and technology in asset management planning
Learn how to put the correct systems in place for sustainable decision making
Gain practical insight into measuring, evaluating and improving an asset life through the use of technology
Stay up to date with the role of data-driven insights to monitor the performance and condition of assets
Find out more about balancing the financial desire to “sweat” old assets with the need for innovation
Gain insight into modularity and the ways in which it can be implemented in different industries
Further the role of design engineers in the life cycle of life extension
Learn a framework for success in building life extension into future designs, with guidance provided by key high-level regulators and stakeholders
Increase awareness of successful strategies employed to manage life extension in a broad range of sectors
Take part in a roundtable discussion of your choice on one of the following topics: modularity, data, artificial intelligence and human factors

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Day 1

08:30 - Seminar programme

	Wednesday, 29March 2023
08:30	Registration and Refreshments
09:00	Chair’s Opening Remarks Mark Norris, Director, Asset Reliability Consultants Ltd and Chair of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ Safety and Reliability Group
09:05	Making the Business Case for Asset Life Extension, and How Far John Woodhouse, Managing Director, The Woodhouse Partnership Ltd Evaluating the options, risks, uncertainties, and optimal timings Bridging the divide between technical and financial perspectives Best practices and specific examples from different industry sectors
	Life Extension: Monitoring, Data and Artificial Intelligence
09:30	Maintenance of Plant and Machinery Paul Grady HM Principal Specialist Inspector (Mechanical Engineering), Health and Safety Executive Maintenance Strategy – developing a plan and different approaches to adopt Determining the tasks – scheduling, inspection and service Ongoing review – competency and life cycle management
09:55	Asset Management Digital Roadmap Dave Clark, Asset Management and Continuous Improvement Manager, Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Bridging the gap between operational technology and information technology Connected Infrastructure Bringing it all together with enterprise asset management
10:20	The Role of Simulation and Modelling in Life Extension Panos Frangos, Operational Research Project Leader, Sellafield Ltd Interdependency between Throughput Reliability Availability and Maintainability (T-RAM) and Modelling and Simulation Measuring, evaluating, and improving asset life using predictive analysis Optimisation of data communication using technology
10:45	Networking Refreshment Break
	Industry Case Studies
11:15	Life Extension of Rolling Stock David Buckley, Head of Fleet, Angel Trains
11:40	Practical Takeaways from Life-Extension Projects Across Industry Paul Metcalfe, Senior Technical Consultant, ABB
12:05	Assuring Design is Fit for Purpose Mike McCarthy, T-RAM Consultant, Sellafield Ltd Stephen Moore, T-RAM Process Lead, Sellafield Ltd The importance of gaining confidence in the design phase What does it give you, understanding what’s important to maintain functionality? How it links to life extension, benefits, and challenges
12:30	Networking Lunch
	Life Extension Across Industries
13:30	Planning to Extend the Life of Major Assets Mark Norris, Director, Asset Reliability Consultants Ltd and Chair, Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ Safety and Reliability Group Early intervention planning for new assets Reliability centred maintenance Lessons learnt from existing assets
14:00	Roundtable Discussions and Shared Practices Facilitated by: Mark Norris, Director, Asset Reliability Consultants Ltd and Chair, Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ Safety and Reliability Group Bob Wilson, Former Chair, Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ Safety and Reliability Group Tim Ingram, Technical Director Strategic Asset Management, Chair of UK’s Mirror Committee for ISO 55000, Atkins John Ahmet Erkoyuncu, Professor in Digital Engineering, Cranfield University
14:40	Feedback from Roundtable Discussions
15:00	Maximising Asset Life and Reliability through Strong Organisational Foundations and Targeted Digital Change Christopher Bates, Principal Operations and Maintenance Consultant - Asset Management, Binnies Strong organisational foundations – examining a successful maintenance transformation at all levels in an organisation Targeted digital change (1) – a look at how digital transformation is starting to change one organisations asset management approach Targeted digital change (2) – How CBM has improved reliability and reduced operational spend across critical rotating assets and what made it successful
15:25	Networking Refreshment Break
15:55	Application of Life Extension in Aerospace Ian Thatcher, Safety and Reliability Specialist - CPE - Engineering Safety Centre, Rolls-Royce Life extensions of Civil Aerospace products to increase time-on-wing Characterising known and known-unknown failure modes to model life extension impact Understanding the potential risk associated with the unknown-unknowns
16:20	Evaluating the Underlying Reasons for Handover Information Degradation for Commercial Buildings Janet Chang, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge The intended use of handover information and the desired information quality dimensions to meet various compliance-related asset management processes The possible key events and activities that trigger the information quality deterioration The applicability of the study findings to other sectors for example infrastructure, healthcare and more
16:45	Planning for Asset Management Cameron Sloman, Senior Consultant, Asset Management Consulting Limited (AMCL) Shyam Ramaiya, Senior Consultant at Asset Management Consulting Limited (AMCL) The role of people, process, data, and technology in Asset Management Planning Putting systems in place for sustainable decision making
17:10	Chair’s Closing Remarks
17:15	End of Seminar

John Woodhouse: Managing Director, The Woodhouse Partnership Ltd

With 30 years’ experience in utilities, energy, transport and other sectors, John is one of the most widely known experts in integrated asset management projects, advising for some of the largest companies in the world. John is a Founder and Life Fellow of the Institute of Asset Management; he has authored a number of books, chaired the development of BSI PAS55 and represents the UK on the ISO55000 committee. He also led the international MACRO and SALVO collaboration projects in optimised asset management decision-making.

Paul Grady: HM Principal Specialist Inspector (Mechanical Engineering), Health and Safety Executive

Paul holds the HSE Portfolio for Machinery Safety and Pressure Systems. This involves technical input to HSE policy on British, European and International Standards on these subjects, together with liaison with industry user-groups and trade associations. Paul is the main author of HSE guidance INDG 392 (recover paper safely), GS4 (Safety in Pressure Testing) and PM73 (Safety requirements for Autoclaves).

Paul is also the chairman of the BSi Machinery Safety national standards group MCE3 and was actively involved in representing HSE in the development of BS14100, revision of PD5304 and current development of BS14200 for the maintenance of machinery.

Previously Paul managed a team of mechanical engineers, providing technical direction and advice to incident investigations to a diverse range of general manufacturing, construction and fairground applications.

Panos Frangos: Operational Research Project Leader, Sellafield Ltd

Panos is a Chartered Scientist and holds a master’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics and Operational Research. He has more than 20 years of practical experience in OR in the nuclear industry. Panos is an Operational Research Model development Project Leader at the Sellafield Ltd.’s Advance Business Analytics group providing internal support to the enterprise Value Streams and Functions. Panos is leading the development of analytical methods, tools, and visualisations to provide insight and inform business decisions. His recent interests include how emerging techniques such as Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning could be utilised in support of Sellafield’s mission to create a clean and safe environment for future generations.

Mike McCarthy: T-RAM Consultant, Sellafield Ltd

Mike is a reliability consultant and director of Risk Based Decisions Ltd. He has worked in many high risk, high consequence industries over his 30-year career. He is currently supporting Sellafield Ltd in the development and assurance of its T-RAM processes on several major projects. He is particularly interested in using simulation, sparse data, and expert elicitation methods as early as possible in the design phase to enable insight, performance prediction and assurance throughout the asset lifecycle.

Janet Chang: PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge

Janet Chang is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow in Innovative Training Networks. Her research focuses on evaluating the possible effects of handover information quality on compliance-related asset management processes for commercial buildings.

Ms Chang’s background offers a diverse portfolio of work for Fortune 500 companies. Before commencing the PhD program, Ms Chang worked as the Integrated Facility Program Planning Manager for the Walt Disney Company. Her responsibilities include developing, maintaining, and refining an integrated recurring capital investment plan for Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California.

Ms Chang is a member of Queens’ College at the University of Cambridge and was named one of the Stamp Scholars in 2021.

Cameron Sloman: Senior Consultant, AMCL

Cameron is a Senior Consultant at AMCL with 3 years of experience in the Aviation sector. Graduating from the University of Leeds with a MEng in Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering, Cameron has a track record of successful strategic and transformation projects across the Aviation, Rail and Water sectors. Most recently Cameron has been specialising in the implementation and delivery of Asset Management Planning capability, specifically focussing on investment planning, whole life cost modelling and whole system decision making.

Shyam Ramaiya: Senior Consultant, AMCL

Shyam is a Senior Consultant at AMCL having graduated with a MEng in Mechanical Engineering from Loughborough University. Shyam has been responsible for leading the development and delivery of a number of Asset Management projects across the Rail, Water, Power and Aviation sectors. Shyam has particular expertise in Investment Planning and Value Framework development and is passionate about helping organisations make sustainable investment decisions. He has also supported a number of technology implementations in asset-intensive organisations, including Enterprise Asset Management and Asset Investment Planning systems.

Chris Bates: Principal Operations and Maintenance Consultant, Asset Management, Binnies

After graduating from the University of Manchester in 2014 Chris Bates joined United Utilities as a graduate mechanical engineer. Whilst working towards Chartership with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Chris spent time assisting operational colleagues with a whole host of engineering issues, whether it was trouble shooting on a weekend when it had all gone wrong or looking to reduce the risk to people’s health and wellbeing that comes with working reactively. He found a passion for maintenance, in particular condition based maintenance and went on to spend four years in the role of Reliability Maintenance Manager, during which he implemented significant improvements to the lubrication regime as well as transforming the CBM program and strategy. Chris joined Binnies mid-way through 2022 to help organisations implement similar improvements and realise the myriad of benefits, financial and otherwise, that are there to be had.

Ian Thatcher: Safety and Reliability Specialist, Rolls-Royce

Ian has 20 years’ experience working in the Aerospace industry in various positions within the Safety & Reliability function at Rolls-Royce plc. Ian started working with field data, establishing statistical models for component failures, predicting future events and optimising management strategies to minimise these events. Ian also spent 5 years within the new product introduction environment developing Safety Cases & Reliability plans for new engine variants. Ian is currently the Safety & Reliability Specialist within the Civil Aerospace Business. He is particularly interested in influencing future design through application of service experience and understanding the risk associated with aging fleets.

Stephen Moore: T-RAM Process Lead, Sellafield Ltd

Stephen has 38 years’ experience working in the nuclear industry working in various positions, from operations, manufacturing, and engineering over last 10 years he has been working in reliability engineering. Stephen is the T- RAM process lead for SL providing internal support to the enterprise value streams and the functions. Stephen is leading the development of TRAM principles and training throughout the company. He is particularly interested in how things fail and how we can use sparse data AI to better understand failure and prevent it, enabling better insight into ageing management and system health through the asset lifecycle.

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