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Answers to questions
department | on the floor
facing today's reliability
& maintenance
professionals
ISO 55001
Doesn't
Guarantee
Best
Practices
Dr. Klaus M. Blache
Univ. of Tennessee Reliability
and Maintainability Center
(RMC)
Answering three questions will help you determine
whether you can benefit from ISO 55001
compliance/certification.
Q
A
Why should ISO 55001
be used to improve asset
management?
sset management is about
balancing opportunities, risks,
challenges, and costs to enable value
creation (defined by your company
objectives/goals). This should be done
with the entire life cycle of assets in
mind. A benefit of following the ISO
55000 series is that it represents a
global consensus on how to implement
asset management:
ISO 55000 Asset Management-
Overview, Principles, and Terminology
ISO 55001 Asset Management-
Management Systems-Requirements
ISO 55002 Asset Management-
Management Systems-Guidelines for
the Application of ISO 55001.
The intent of ISO standards is to
depict the best way to do something.
They cover numerous areas including
product quality, information security,
environment, energy, occupational
health and safety, and risk management.
ISO is an independent, non-governmental
organization established in 1947.
Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland,
it has a membership of 163 national
standard organizations across the world.
Hundreds of technical committees
compile and distribute information to
maintain international standards that
are voluntary, based on consensus,
market relevant, innovative, and targeted
to solve global challenges.
Let's put this in perspective for the
United States since ISO certification is
much more popular overseas.
According to a 2019 ISO survey (iso.
org/the-iso-survey.html), which tallied
data counting valid certificates issued by
accredited certification bodies worldwide
(more than a million ISO certificates
representing the top 12 ISO management-system
standards), the most
popular certificates are ISO 9001 (quality
management), ISO 14001 (environmental
management), ISO 45001 (occupational
health and safety), ISO/IEC 27001
(information security), and ISO 22000
(food safety). ISO 55000, published in
2014, didn't make the list. On a global
perspective, the U.S. is not a large user of
ISO standards.
Looking at ISO 9001 (the most
popular standard), the U.S. makes up
slightly more than 2% of the total of this
quality-management standard. I'm asked
about ISO 550001 and if it's worth the
effort and expanse. My response is, " it
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