ISO 5500x series of standards put the concept of ‘Value’ at the heart of Asset Management (AM). In the last decades the discipline has deeply evolved, and nowadays one of the key objectives in the AM processes is to guarantee an improved and optimized coordination for all influencing engineering parameters that contribute to the asset value, in order to satisfy the expectations and requirements of related stakeholders. Value-based AM is achieved when the value delivered by assets is adopted as the leading decisional criterion to evaluate distinct AM alternatives, in order to contribute to operational excellence. As result of this trend, it is critical for organizations to be able to clearly understand what influence the value delivered by their assets, in order to manage such value through informed and consistent decision-making. Anyways, despite this central role, a single clear definition of “Value” is not given in literature, and Value-based asset management (VBAM) remains an approach more quoted in theory than described in concrete terms. A clear understanding about the main elements that are needed to enable it is still missing in industrial practice. Due to the importance and novelty of such approach, a research study is developed to shed light on the topic. The study starts off with an extensive literature review about the drivers that are linked by researchers to value realization from assets, aiming to clearly point out the elements that companies need to consider in order to enable value realization from their asset systems. Subsequently, a state-of-the-art review is presented, concerning the most diffused ‘value models’ that have been proposed so far depending on the specific interpretation of value, given in different contexts. Considering the literature gaps and the points of weakness of the value models reviewed, a structured framework embedding a value-oriented approach was developed, describing a value-based systematic procedure that should help companies in the achievement of a better degree of awareness concerning “WHAT” constitutes value generated by their assets and “HOW” to properly enable and improve value generation process. Beside this first objective, the framework presented was developed to verify the alignment of the Performance Management System (PMS) adopted by an organization in order to monitor and manage performances of their asset systems with the drivers of Value, and eventually integrate it with additional Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to create such alignment. An empirical investigation is then developed through a case-study involving a production company operating in the citrus derivatives transformation and treatment industry, with the purpose of validating the framework against the real mechanisms in the industrial practices.
La serie di norme ISO5500x colloca il concetto di ‘Valore’ direttamente alle fondamenta dell’Asset Management (AM). Negli ultimi decenni tale disciplina si è profondamente evoluta, e oggigiorno uno degli obiettivi cardine nei processi di AM è quello di garantire una migliore e ottimizzata coordinazione tra tutti i parametri ingegneristici che influenzano la generazione di valore dagli assets, al fine di soddisfare le aspettative degli stakeholders interessati. Un approccio di AM orientato al valore si può dire raggiunto solo quando il valore generato dagli assets industriali venga adottato come principale criterio decisionale nella scelta tra diverse alternative di AM, al fine di contribuire all’ eccellenza operativa. Come conseguenza di tale trend generale, essere in grado di capire chiaramente quali elementi influenzano il valore realizzato tramite gli asset industriali diventa cruciale per le organizzazioni, in modo da integrare in maniera informata e consistente tale valore nel processo decisionale. Ad ogni modo, nonostante un ruolo così centrale, una definizione di ‘Valore’ univoca e chiara non è stata ancora data in letteratura, e l’AM orientato al valore rimane un approccio prevalentemente citato nella sua forma teorica, piuttosto che descritto in termini pratici. Nelle pratiche industriali è richiesta una maggiore chiarezza riguardo i principali fattori che sono necessari per implementarlo correttamente. In vista dell’importanza e della novità di tale approccio, questo studio di ricerca è stato sviluppato per portare luce in materia. Questo studio inizia con un’estesa analisi della letteratura correlata ai drivers che sono stati collegati dai ricercatori alla generazione di valore dagli asset industriali, con l’obiettivo di identificare chiaramente quegli elementi che le aziende devono considerare per supportare la generazione di valore dai loro asset fisici. Successivamente è stato presentato uno stato dell’arte relativo ai più diffusi ‘Modelli di Valore’ che sono stati avanzati in letteratura, a seconda della specifica interpretazione data al valore nei differenti contesti. Considerando tutte le lacune evidenziate dall’ analisi della letteratura esistente e i punti di debolezza dei modelli di valore proposti, è stato sviluppato un framework basato sull’ approccio orientate al valore discusso, che descrive sistematicamente una procedura che si pone l’obiettivo di supportare le aziende nell’ acquisire un maggiore grado di consapevolezza riguardo COSA costituisce il valore generato dai loro assets industriali, e COME esse possano intervenire per migliorare il processo di generazione di valore. Oltre a questo primo obiettivo, il framework descritto è stato sviluppato per verificare l’allineamento del “Performance Management System (PMS)” adottato da un’azienda per monitorare e gestire le performances dei propri sistemi di assets fisici con quelli che sono gli elementi generatori di valore, eventualmente integrando tale sistema con ulteriori Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) per creare il suddetto allineamento. Un’ ulteriore investigazione empirica infine è stata sviluppata attraverso un caso-studio che ha coinvolto un’azienda operante nell’ industria di trasformazione e trattamento dei derivati agrumari, con l’obiettivo di validare il framework sviluppato contro meccanismi che si verificano nella pratica realtà industriale.
Value to asset, a value-based approach for physical asset management
FAILLA, ANTONIO
2018/2019
Abstract
ISO 5500x series of standards put the concept of ‘Value’ at the heart of Asset Management (AM). In the last decades the discipline has deeply evolved, and nowadays one of the key objectives in the AM processes is to guarantee an improved and optimized coordination for all influencing engineering parameters that contribute to the asset value, in order to satisfy the expectations and requirements of related stakeholders. Value-based AM is achieved when the value delivered by assets is adopted as the leading decisional criterion to evaluate distinct AM alternatives, in order to contribute to operational excellence. As result of this trend, it is critical for organizations to be able to clearly understand what influence the value delivered by their assets, in order to manage such value through informed and consistent decision-making. Anyways, despite this central role, a single clear definition of “Value” is not given in literature, and Value-based asset management (VBAM) remains an approach more quoted in theory than described in concrete terms. A clear understanding about the main elements that are needed to enable it is still missing in industrial practice. Due to the importance and novelty of such approach, a research study is developed to shed light on the topic. The study starts off with an extensive literature review about the drivers that are linked by researchers to value realization from assets, aiming to clearly point out the elements that companies need to consider in order to enable value realization from their asset systems. Subsequently, a state-of-the-art review is presented, concerning the most diffused ‘value models’ that have been proposed so far depending on the specific interpretation of value, given in different contexts. Considering the literature gaps and the points of weakness of the value models reviewed, a structured framework embedding a value-oriented approach was developed, describing a value-based systematic procedure that should help companies in the achievement of a better degree of awareness concerning “WHAT” constitutes value generated by their assets and “HOW” to properly enable and improve value generation process. Beside this first objective, the framework presented was developed to verify the alignment of the Performance Management System (PMS) adopted by an organization in order to monitor and manage performances of their asset systems with the drivers of Value, and eventually integrate it with additional Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to create such alignment. An empirical investigation is then developed through a case-study involving a production company operating in the citrus derivatives transformation and treatment industry, with the purpose of validating the framework against the real mechanisms in the industrial practices.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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