IPWEA's Peter Way was part of the Australian delegation to the third Technical Committee (TC) 251 meeting in California, for ongoing review and implementation of the ISO 55000 Asset Management Standards.
Meeting delegates
The TC was advised that its Strategic Business Plan had been approved by the ISO/TMB and has now been published on ISO’s web site.
The TC reviewed the results of the (systematic) reviews of ISO 55000 and ISO 55001, and agreed that both standards should be confirmed (unchanged) at this time.
The TC was delighted by the news that ISO C/S had agreed that it could use one of the new format committee web sites on the ISO portal. This will provide an opportunity to further disseminate articles, briefing notes, introductory notes, templates and the like to assist with implementation.
The TC noted that its request to the ISO/TMB for the withdrawal of the handbook ISO 55000 – What to do, and for the revision of the commissioning process for such handbooks had been agreed and that the handbook was now withdrawn. However, its separate request for the ISO 55000 and ISO 55001 standards to be 'protected' in the same manner as ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 had not yet been decided.
Other issues of significance were the reports and work of the various working groups on communication, product improvement, finance (convened by Peter Way) and revision of 55002. These saw steps to better disseminate information on the Standards, via websites and articles, generating feedback, creating a knowledge database and improving 55002 with further explanatory annexures.
The next Meeting of TC 251 will be in Brisbane on the last week in March 2017.