Supply Stream

Questions to be asked about current asset utilization include:

• How accurately can the organization assess the current capacity of their assets?
• Do they have all the physical details necessary to calculate the current capacity?
• Is this readily available on the asset database?
• Is it capable of being downloaded to modelling systems or can it calculate capacity internally?
• Does the organization have a system or method that allows them to determine the capacity of networked or aggregated assets? for example:
  • Single asset
  • Facility or group of assets
  • Region or supply district
  • System as a whole.
• How accurately can the organization assess the current utilization or demand for these assets?
• To what hierarchical level (asset categories) can the organization monitor the current use of the system?
  • Asset level
  • Facility level
  • Regional level
  • System level.
• Is the monitoring real time (continuous)?
  • Peak only
  • Peak, minimum and average
  • Annual usage.
  • How good are the historical utilization records for these assets?
    • 2 years
    • 5 years
    • 10 years
    • 15 years and over.
• Are the key drivers (causes) of these demands known for this historical period?
• How does this level of utilization compare with other assets of similar categories in similar organizations using benchmarking?