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ARM - Asset Register and Maintenance Management
Every successful business needs to make good decisions about where to invest its resources. The ARM (Asset Register and Maintenance Management) processes will ensure that the right investment and maintenance management decisions are made by supplying up-to-date asset information about ESB Networks' assets, e.g. poles, transformers, substations. These assets are currently valued at €2 billion.

The ARM project is playing a key role in creating one central register for all asset information. However, ARM is more than a record of asset information. It is also a standardised method of planning, completing and recording maintenance work.

From 01 November 2006, the new processes and systems will begin to be used for 2007 work plans. This means that maintenance work orders will be produced within the new system from 01 January 2007.

ESB Networks and ESBI - Owning the Design
key success factor for this initiative is ensuring that business lines impacted are involved in designing, building and testing the system and that they understand how it will work for them. During April, a total of 41 staff from ESB Networks Asset Management, Network Projects, Network Services, Finance, Supply Chain and ESBI came together to review the overall design of ARM through a series of workshops. The meetings involved a demonstration of how our maintenance planning and completion processes will work and how asset information will be updated within the new central system

At one of these recent sessions, Joe O'Mahony, Head of Network Projects (pictured left), paid tribute to the members of the ARM team for the volume of work completed to date, their attention to quality and their commitment to meeting the timelines of this initiative. As well as acknowledging the work done by the ARM team, he congratulated the representatives from the business lines who have taken a strong role in providing feedback, direction and input into the ARM project. It is this ownership by the business for the finished product that will guarantee its success.

Find out more information!
Please see our website for more information: http://esbnet/arm/ or contact Paul Mullarkey on ext 27846 or Antoinette Murphy on ext 47605. We would be very happy to receive your comments and feedback and look forward to keeping you up to date on how ARM progresses over the coming months. EM