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World Class Organizational Structure, Processes, Practices and Tools |
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Cost Effective Delivery of Asset Management |
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Insightful Asset Management Decision Making |
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Our Leading Edge Investment Optimization Process |
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PAS 55 Programs and
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| Benefits of our Asset Management Solutions |
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Clear separation of Asset Owner, Asset Manager and Network Service Provider roles and responsibilities, processes, practices and tools |
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A complete understanding of the interaction of capital and operating costs of installed assets, asset utilization and asset performance |
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Maximization of shareholder value through this knowledge and understanding |
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Effective decision making in relation to assets and people resources |
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Management of the risk associated with unknowns such as assets, people, process, environment, market demand, etc., and |
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Ability to optimize the value of assets of commercially driven and static businesses. |
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| Who We Serve |
| UMS Group Asset Management Solutions works in partnership with our clients to offer leading asset management expertise, processes, practices and tools to public, private and investor owned asset owners of electricity, gas, telecommunications and water utilities, and the airline and rail industry. |
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| What We Offer |
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Training workshops in various industries to assist clients to grasp the asset management concept and to understand the benefits of the Strategic Asset Management (SAM) Model. |
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Asset management assessments, audits and diagnostics in organizational structure, processes, practices and tools to determine gaps to world-class asset management, the gap closure strategy and subsequent provision of support in developing compelling business cases for change. |
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Establishment of the SAM Model within client organizational structures, including development of Asset Owner, Asset Manager and Network Service Provider reporting structure, roles and responsibilities. |
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Process design in the Asset Owner, Asset Manager and Network Services Provider domains. |
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An advanced library of asset management analytical and decision-support tools (spend optimization, reliability optimization, contractor work units and ACIS). |
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Change management and implementation support for actionable improvements in organizational structure, processes and tools. |
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Asset management assessments, organizational structure development, process design and tool implementation in the key Asset Manager Domains of Asset Investment Strategy, Investment Planning, Performance Management, Contracting Strategy and Support Systems: |
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Asset Investment Strategy |
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Strengthening the linkage between corporate strategies and objectives, and the asset management decisions. |
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Implementing and improving the decision-making process that determines how assets are to be maintained, removed, and added. |
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Implementing Condition Based Assessment (CBA), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Life Cycle Planning (LCP) and End Of Life (EOL) modeling methodologies. |
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Investment Planning |
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Implementing the UMS Group Investment Optimization Process and Toolset and analyzing and optimizing all capital and operating spending, both on an operating level and across the enterprise. |
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Applying multi-variate analytic tools which consider financial, technical, socio-political risk mitigation in the assessment of alternate spending scenarios, including the impact of spending deferrals, exclusivities and dependencies. |
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Architecture and development of process and decision support tools linking asset management processes with the financial, budgeting and management reporting processes. |
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Performance Management |
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Implementation of the processes and the associated framework to measure the performance of assets, processes, and people, analyze performance gaps and determine possible gap closure solutions. |
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Development of mature and relevant performance metrics that link directly to the business objectives and planning process, and provide sufficient insights to facilitate change in asset management approach. |
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Resourcing Strategy |
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Assessments of internal versus external service providers, contracting strategy development including development of plans for migrating from the current state. |
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Developing and implementing service agreements, contracts and management processes for both internal and external resources, including the establishment of appropriate incentive and penalty structures. |
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Support Systems |
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Assessment and improvement of the integration of systems, data-flows and processes:
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Provision of sophisticated data analysis, trending and modeling tools. |
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Asset management assessments, organizational structure development, process design and tool implementation in the key Network Service Provider Domains of Design and Analysis, Resource Management, Operations, Restoration, Construction and Maintenance, and Work Completion: |
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Design and Analysis |
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Strengthening the processes, practices, standards and design tools for managing the technical aspects of the infrastructure to ensure minimal cost and maximum reliability. |
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Resource Management |
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Assessment, development and implementation of all the processes and best practices necessary to manage internal and external service providers, assign work, monitor cost and quality and take corrective actions (refer UMS Group ACIS Tool). |
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Operations |
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Assessment, development and implementation of the processes and best practices used to manage the reliability of the system in terms of capacity, outage risk and minimization, restoration, losses, and work coordination. |
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Restoration |
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Assessment, development and implementation of the processes and best practices required to restore service after an interruption. |
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Construction and Maintenance |
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Assessment, development and implementation of the processes and best practices associated with the planning, scheduling and coordination of activities required to build new assets, and maximize asset life in conformance with reliability and cost targets. |
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Performance Management |
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Assessment, development and implementation of the processes and best practices necessary to formally close a work activity, accrue the financial
and performance information to plant, reconcile variances, and close financial
and performance records. |
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| Our Strengths |
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Global Perspective |
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UMS Group has served over 400 utility and asset-intensive clients on six continents since 1989. Our proprietary knowledge base of asset management organizational structure, process, practices and tools gives us the unique ability to offer world class and innovative solutions to our clients’ most complex and challenging issues. |
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Content Intensive Advice |
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Our professional consulting and operational staff is steeped in experience in the industries we serve. Small project teams, senior industry-experienced consultants, proprietary processes, data and tools combine to bring exceptional value to our clients for their consulting dollar. |
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Access to World Class Intellectual Property |
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We have a strong track record in deployment of Intellectual Property in asset management engagements covering a spectrum ranging from asset management strategy through to operations. |
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Outcome Oriented Organization |
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UMS Group prides itself on implementation of our recommendations, and has a proven ability to reduce costs through the deployment of effective asset management. |
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Respected Delivery Capability |
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Demonstrable client testimonials from asset-intensive enterprises to the effectiveness and value release from our asset management engagements. |
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Multiple Market Capabilities |
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With operations located in the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Mideast, we are globally positioned to serve both multi-national clients as well as local and municipal clients anywhere contracted or outsourced Asset Management services are required. |
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