An asset registry arguably forms the core system that needs to be in place before other systems can operate or interoperate. Most systems have rudimentary asset registry functionality that store assets, relationships, or characteristics, and this leads to different asset management systems...

In an attempt to turn data management into a profitable enterprise, many businesses are seeking to integrate and centralise their data through data warehousing. A data warehouse then allows businesses to turn data into knowledge, and turn knowledge into tangible profits. One key success factor...

Asset health prediction is imperative to optimal asset management. Online and offline inspections can provide useful information for predicting asset health. The information from an asset health inspection can be divided into two types. (1) Direct indicators which directly determine failures...

Timely decision making is critical in today’s competitive business world and in recent times, data warehousing has been employed by numerous companies to satisfy the needs of accurate and timely information. Data warehousing has traditionally been employed for financial and customer...

To integrate condition monitoring and reliability analysis with asset life-cycle management, a general-purpose asset health assessment system architecture is being developed. This system will assist management and maintenance staff to make decisions based on condition and reliability data,...

The amount of data that modern companies collect is ever increasing. With organisations that own a plethora of information systems, structured integration of data has become a pressing issue. Many companies have turned to data warehousing to bridge the gap of turning data into useful information...

Condition monitoring systems are prevalent in industries that contain critical assets. Their use allows the detection of potential failures at an early stage in order to minimise downtime and maintenance costs of a system. Many condition monitoring systems are commercially available, however...

Business activities rely on people?s understanding and interpretation of information. Meaning (semantics) is incorporated in the way information is defined and structured. From a semantics point of view information models range from low level semantics, such as taxonomies and data dictionaries,...

This paper reports on findings from the first stage of an exploratory study into the factors that influence the diffusion of ontologies in the Road Asset Management sector in Australia. The study investigates issues related to the diffusion of standard information models (taxonomies, road...

Contemporary enterprises rely on accurate and complete information to make optimal decisions. In order to do so must have the ability to harvest information from every repository that will provide them the necessary information for good decisions to be made. Asset managing organisations have in...