The Challenge
Southern Ports faced a significant challenge: implementing an integrated and effective Asset Management System (AMS) that adhered to international standards and enabled operational efficiencies across multiple port locations. Their ambitious goal included attaining ISO55001 accreditation across their entire AMS, which no Australian port had achieved before. This required a comprehensive framework to align processes, enhance maturity, and ensure
The Solution
BetterAIM partnered with Southern Ports to deliver a comprehensive solution using betterAMF to support Southern Ports in building and maturing their Asset Management Framework. The betterAMF approach provided Southern Ports with the following:
- Centralised Framework: A single platform for accessing all AMS-related resources, ensuring seamless alignment with industry standards and guidelines such as the Institute of Asset Management’s/GFMAM’s 39 Subjects and eliminating process overlaps.
- Pre-Built Templates: Ready-to-use frameworks tailored to Southern Ports’ branding, organisational needs, and maturity, accelerating their progress toward ISO55001 compliance.
- Dynamic Environment: A live, continuously updated AMS environment adaptable to Southern Ports’ evolving strategic requirements.
- Clearer Roles and Responsibilities. A simple mechanism to assign and make roles and responsibilities more visible across all the AMF elements.
- Improvement Roadmap: A clear structure for documenting, auditing, and advancing asset management processes, simplifying their journey to audit readiness.
By integrating high-level workflows, maturity assessments, and improvement strategies within betterAMF, BetterAIM equipped Southern Ports with a robust system to meet its strategic asset management goals.
The Outcome
Southern Ports successfully implemented its Asset Management System, passed rigorous audits, and achieved ISO55001 accreditation across the framework. This milestone made them the first port in Australia to attain such recognition.
The framework established transparent processes for all AMS elements aligned with IAM/GFMAM’s 39 subjects and ISO 55001 standards. It enhanced accessibility by making the AMS universally available to all port stakeholders through BetterAMF. It built a foundational understanding of SPA asset management while systematically preserving organisational knowledge. It strengthened role and accountability clarity and improved process transparency by consolidating and integrating previously fragmented and poorly connected documentation into a cohesive framework.
The project enhanced operational maturity and compliance and established Southern Ports as an industry leader in asset management. BetterAIM continues to partner with Southern Ports to enable sustainable improvements across the asset management system.