Core Sponsors

Core sponsors are The Woodhouse Partnership Ltd (project managers), National Grid, London Underground, SASOL and Scottish Water, supported by DSTL and Cambridge University on technical developments. The core sponsors provide both expertise and financial resources, and comprise the project Steering Committee.

Industrial Associates

A number of other industrial partners are involved at the working group levels, providing peer review and field inputs. These include Scottish Power Energy Networks, Halcrow, Centrica and Forbo Flooring.

Technology Associates

A number of technology specialists have been invited to participate - to ensure that SALVO deliverables can be embedded in common EAM and business data environments. The first group of such IT partners includes SAP, IBM Maximo, Mincom & AMT-Sybex (Ellipse).

Contributions of such partners to the project will be on a self-funding basis (including a small contribution to administration, communications and review workshop participation costs).

Can I still get involved?

Even though the project is already midway through its programme, there is still time and a way in which you may be able to get involved. If you are an asset owner/operator from an industry sector (public or private) that is not already presented on the project, you may be accepted as an Industrial Associate. This provides ‘inside track’ awareness of what is being developed, the opportunity to review and comment on guidance materials, and the chance to perform your own field trials of the processes and tools being developed. Industrial Associates receive a 2-day induction training course to bring them up to speed on existing work.

If this is of interest, please contact the Project Management office for details.
SALVO will collate best practices and generate practical decision-support methods for the optimal management and renewal of aging assets.

SALVO Contact Details

Director: John Woodhouse
Partnering: Phil Summerfield
Technical Support: Andy Hunt

Project Management Office

Prince Henry House, Kingsclere Business Park,
Kingsclere, Hampshire. RG20 4SW. UK
Tel: + 44 (0) 1635 298800
Email: admin@SALVOproject.org
www.SALVOproject.org

What is SALVO?
  • Multi-sector collaboration to research, develop and define best practices
  • Develop strategies and optimize the management of aging asset
  • Identify optimal timing for asset replacement
  • Integrate optimal inspection, maintenance and renewal strategies
  • Force the right questions to be asked
  • Identify specific asset data needs and usage
  • Capture and quantify ’tacit’ knowledge’, technical and commercial expertise
  • Forecast expenditure and resource requirements based on clear, risk-based justification
  • SALVO will incorporate appropriate elements of APT decision support tools and best practices from the European MACRO project.
  http://www.MACROproject.org

Scope & Objectives

In line with guidance from the PAS 55 standard for optimized management of physical assets, there are three main levels of ‘granularity’ required for improving life cycle decision-making:

  • Individual intervention decisions for individual assets (‘shall I do this job on this asset, if so, when?)
  • Optimal combination of inspections, maintenance and renewal modifications for specific assets or asset groups to deliver optimal whole life cycle value.
  • Total population/system investment plans, maintenance, resourcing and performance forecasting and ‘what if’? Studies.
SALVO will improve our capability to address the fist two of these in a quantified, risk-based manner, and enable much better linkages and contributions to the third (i.e. ‘bottom-up justification and transparency for what needs to be spent, when and where).
Top-down and bottom-up: building an integrated, optimised strategy for the maintenance and renewal of aging assets.

Many individual components of the SALVO scope are already available and successfully used in various industries (see www.decisionsupporttools.com). Risk-based methods, for example, exist for asset criticality analysis, for optimising inspection and maintenance plans, for life cycle costing and even for the optimal bundling of tasks into shutdown opportunities or total work programmes. SALVO will draw on all these capabilities and provide a path to their integration and embedding within asset management systems, so optimised decision-making is a normal business process rather than the job of special analysts or experts.