"The benefits of practicing true asset management are varied and diverse. Some have direct, measurable impacts whilst others have a social impact which is difficult to measure. They include Understanding, Control, Financial Necessity and Progress of Community.

Asset management is about management for the future."

Excerpted from the paper entitled "Asset Management - Why?" ( 245 KB)
presented by Armin Huefner at the Pipes Wagga Wagga Conference

	3 Key Benefits for your Organisation
	Overview
	Asset Management Brochures
	External GIS Integration

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3 Key Benefits for your Organisation

Maintaining an inventory of assets and their condition, defining optimal replacement strategies and meeting statutory reporting requirements are all objectives the Asset Manager must achieve.

The Loftus HMS Asset Management suite provides your organisation with three measurable benefits:

	Knowledge Registers of all Council controlled assets together with tools to evaluate scenarios and understand the impact of decisions
	Compliance Conformity with financial accounting standards and best practice manuals via auitable and repeatable processes
	Savings Accomplishment of cost savings through optimised delivery of asset improvements to your community

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Overview

Loftus IT staff understand asset management and that's why our Asset Management Systems are designed with simplicity and ease-of-use in mind without compromising the features that are required for true asset management.

The Asset Management Systems (AMS) have been designed to operate on a discipline basis with the prime function being to record, maintain and model data.

Each AMS shares a uniform look and feel with comprehensive facilities to:

	Record related assets in structures tailored to suit individual asset types
	Record measured and visual condition and life assessment information
	Comply with AAS27 / FRS3 financial requirements relating to valuations
	Model behaviour and understand asset degradation over time
	Determine strategy and maintenance programs
	Determine Developer Contributions to sewer infrastructure
	Archive data for historical comparisons
	Interface to Loftus HMS Customer Service and Work Management Systems
	Interface to third party analysis software (where applicable)

Integration with GIS also plays a big part in Loftus HMS programs. We understand the growing requirement by organisations to have their assets linked to their maps and have incorporated a GIS+Viewer as a standard feature within our AMS product. We have since extended this feature with a new and exciting product called GIS+Link which allows your Loftus HMS AMS to share information in real-time directly with your MapInfo, ESRI and GenaMap GIS applications.

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Asset Management Brochures

	AMS Overview ( 479 KB) An brief look at the Loftus HMS Asset Management Systems
	AMS Detail ( 2.41 MB) A more detailed overview of each of the disciplines of the Loftus HMS Asset Management systems

Discipline-based modules

	RoadPAK Overview ( 1.19 MB) Complete asset management for road assets including : Seals, Pavements, Kerbing, Footpaths, Signage, Line Marking, Street Furniture, Lighting and Street Trees.
	ParkPAK Overview ( 1.52 MB) Asset Management for Parks and Reserves. Asset and Risk (Tree Hazard) Management of Trees and Green assets
	PipePAK Overview ( 257 KB) The AMS to manage your Sewer (Wastewater), Water, Drainage (Stormwater) and Gas assets. The Sewer discipline includes a Section 64 ( 348 KB) plug-in module for determining developer contributions.
	PLANT Overview ( 317 KB) Asset Management for Pump Station & Treatment Plant infrastructure
	BRAMS Overview ( 373 KB) Asset Management for Bridges
	BuildingPAK Overview ( 728 KB) Asset Management for Buildings

External GIS integration

	GIS+Link MI Overview ( 497 KB) An add-on program that allows your AMS to share information in real-time directly with your MapInfo 7.0 (or higher) GIS application.
	GIS+Link ESRI Overview ( 487 KB) An add-on program that allows your AMS to share information in real-time directly with your ESRI ArcMap 8.3 GIS applications.
	GIS+Link WV Overview ( 425 KB) An add-on program that allows your AMS to share information in real-time directly with your GenaMap WorldViewer 8.1 application.

Click here to download a demonstration system.

Loftus IT understands that Resources within organisations can be limited, we also offer our Services in the areas of, but not limited to, data acquisition, data review & clean up, strategy determination.

Can't quite see an asset management system for you? Loftus IT will work with you to customise or write a program for you based on your specifications.

Call us on +61 8 8304 8888 or e-mail us at hms@loftusit.com.au to discuss your needs.

"What are your assets doing tomorrow?"

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