Content

Objectives

This Conference is opened to the whole Asset Management world and will present the latest developments in various industries (roads, waterways, energy…) and on different continents. It aims at:

  • offering opportunities for international and multi-sector networking with actors from South-East Asia, Middle-West, Eastern Europe and Western-Europe working in various fields like Infrastructure, Industry and Energy;
  • providing Asset Managers with concrete examples and guidance to improve their capabilities, based on the UIC guideline;
  • exploring the latest developments, knowledge and experience across the Asset Management World.

Topics

Among the potential subjects, UIC plans to address the following topics:

  • What’s new in Regulation?
  • Where Asset Management places in the organisation?
  • Is the strategy able to accept innovation?
  • Power of decision-making
  • Data to support Asset Management
  • Is the certification a value
  • Performance to support strategies

Relationship between Framework and topics proposal highlighted by colors

The conference will be held over a two-day period:
20-21 April 2023 keynote speakers, case study presentations and discussions to provide Railway Infrastructure Organisations with concrete examples and guidance to improve their Asset Management capabilities
20 April 2022 - 19:30 Dinner

Exhibition and sponsoring

If you wish to be an exhibitor or a sponsor at the UIC Asset Management Global Conference 2023, please contact Ms. Christine Hassoun at: hassoun@uic.org
Please note exhibition booths and sponsoring opportunities will be offered on a first come first served basis.

Practical information

How to get to UIC

Contact

Ms Christine Hassoun - UIC Rail System Department
hassoun@uic.org

Main activities of the UIC Asset Management Working Group

  • Common view on understanding of what is asset management.
  • Standard: Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 55, which sets out the principles of asset management.
  • “Methods and instruments to manage life cycle costs” and “methods and instruments to manage risk”.
  • Asset information and asset registers - “structure, level of detail of an adequate and flexible AM register/database”.
  • Use of a Geographical Information System as the main way of accessing asset information.
  • Exchange of best practice in AM organization (process).
  • Exchange of best practice in AM methods, techniques and instruments.
  • State of the art in Asset Management outside Rail Infrastructure.
  • What is the value of Risk- and Life Cycle Cost management for AM.
  • Define/classification of lines in terms of functionality and quality.
  • Processes (tactical, realization on medium term):
  • Framework for a AM decision making process; standards or structures for an effective AM-approach/AM-process.
  • Method(s) to manage explicitly the relation between costs, income and performance.
  • How to create best value for money.
  • How to measure performance and quality.
  • Execution of benchmarks: costs (=LICB), performance and organisation quality.
  • Overview and definitions of effective Kpi’s related to the IM-business (costs, availability, safety, ...).
  • Methods and instrument(s) to manage Life Cycle Costs.
  • Methods and instrument(s) to manage Risk.

To provide IM members of the UIC with the necessary instruments/tools to develop their own Asset Management Plan to optimise the level of performance with the minimum LCC in a homogeneous way.

To provide IM members of the UIC with a vision on AM in general and specific tools to create best value for money for the stakeholders. It is a platform to exchange best practice.

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For more information on this activity, contact: send a message by email

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