The Asset Management Council

The Asset Management Council The Asset Management Council is a membership-based, not-for-profit organization that acts as a centr

The Asset Management Council is a membership-based, not-for-profit organization, a Technical Society of Engineers Australia, a founding member of the Global Forum on Maintenance and Asset Management (GFMAM) and a founding member of the World Partners in Asset Management (WPiAM). As an internationally recognized organisation at the forefront of asset management knowledge and development, we provide

information and guidance on asset management across a multitude of industries and professional roles, both in Australia and overseas. Our professional services, technical knowledge, and organisational experience act as a platform for professional development and industry recognition, and our international affiliations link our stakeholders to a community whose knowledge and experience is drawn from all levels of practice. Our vision is to "enable value from effective asset management" and our mission is to "engage our stakeholders to transfer knowledge to create a deeper understanding of asset management".

After completing the Nexus AI-Native Professional learning path, AM Council members tell us they can: ✔️ Write prompts ...
04/09/2026

After completing the Nexus AI-Native Professional learning path, AM Council members tell us they can:

✔️ Write prompts that actually get useful results
✔️ Spot when an AI answer is reliable and when it needs checking
✔️ Fit AI into real workflows without the guesswork
✔️ Have an informed conversation about AI with their team or employer

These are not abstract skills. They are the ones asset management professionals are going to need as AI increasingly becomes part of how the sector works.

The course is free, and it is part of your AM Council membership.

Start it now: https://app.amcouncil.com.au/

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04/09/2026

🇳🇿 Join us in Napier for our next NZ Technical Session

How do strong governance, leadership and decision-making contribute to better asset management outcomes?

On Thursday, 15 October, the Asset Management Council will bring together perspectives from local government, utilities and ports for an afternoon of practical discussion and shared learning.

NZ Technical Session: AM Governance, Leadership and Decision Making

📅 Thursday, 15 October 2026
🕓 4.00 pm arrival | 4.30 pm – 6.00 pm
📍 WSP, 6 Ossian Street, Ahuriri, Napier

Hear from:

🔹 Darren de Klerk – Hastings District Council
Governance

🔹 Unison
Recertification to ISO 55001:2024, with discussion expected to include its approach to decision-making

🔹 Port of Napier
Leadership and Governance

Those attending in person are also invited to continue the conversation afterwards at The Urban Winery, just down the road at 3 Ossian Street.

✅ Free for AMCouncil members
🎟️ Non-members are very welcome to attend for a registration fee

Whether you work in infrastructure, utilities, local government or another asset-intensive organisation, this is a great opportunity to hear practical experiences and connect with New Zealand’s asset management community.

👉 Register now to attend in person or online: https://www.amcouncil.com.au/event/napier-am-governance-leadership-and-decision-making/

How do you strengthen resilience across a network of 1.4 million poles?The next session in our 2026 Asset Management in ...
03/09/2026

How do you strengthen resilience across a network of 1.4 million poles?

The next session in our 2026 Asset Management in Action Webinar Series looks at Essential Energy’s transition from ageing timber poles to composite poles.

Resilience at Scale: Transforming the Essential Energy Network through Composite Pole Transition

Join Pais, Manager Engineering – Network Standards at Energy, as he shares how the transition to composite poles is helping build a stronger, more resilient network that reduces outages, shortens restoration times, and delivers safer, more reliable electricity for customers and communities.

Essential Energy replaces more than 9,000 end-of-life poles each year. An ageing timber pole fleet, constrained supply and escalating climate risk drove a decisive transition to composite poles.

With one in five poles in bushfire-prone areas, composite materials are being used to:

• strengthen network resilience
• improve survivability
• reduce outages
• accelerate restoration
• safeguard customer outcomes and network reliability

📅 Tuesday, 8 September 2026
⏰ 1.00–1.30 pm AEST
💻 Online
✅ 30-minute session
✅ Earn CPD for attending
✅ Free for AMCouncil members
🎟️ Non-members are welcome to attend for a small registration fee

The session will be facilitated by AMCouncil Melbourne Chapter Co-Vice Chair, and YAMP SIG Lead, Shuwen Ling.

Register here: https://www.amcouncil.com.au/event/webinar-resilience-at-scale-transforming-the-essential-energy-network-through-composite-pole-transition/

Part of the Asset Management in Action Webinar Series – showcasing submissions from the 2026 Excellence Awards.

AMai draws on AM Council's Asset Management Body of Knowledge, not the open internet. So, when you ask an asset manageme...
03/09/2026

AMai draws on AM Council's Asset Management Body of Knowledge, not the open internet. So, when you ask an asset management-related question, whether it's a certification requirement or a specific AMBoK topic, the answer comes from the same source your professional practice is built on.

It also has access to your member account, which means it can do things on your behalf, log CPD, check certification status, find and enrol you in events.

Log in to ask AMai: https://app.amcouncil.com.au/

🔧 New AMCouncil Webinar Series: Reliability Engineering ExcellenceHow do organisations move from strong reliability fund...
02/09/2026

🔧 New AMCouncil Webinar Series: Reliability Engineering Excellence

How do organisations move from strong reliability fundamentals to predictive maintenance and AI-enabled asset management?

The answer starts long before AI.

Hosted by the AMCouncil Maintenance & Reliability in Asset Management Special Interest Group, this new five-part webinar series explores the practical journey from reliability engineering foundations through to the application of AI and Machine Learning.

Across the series, we’ll explore:

🔹 Reliability and Maintenance Fundamentals
🔹 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of FMECA and RCM
🔹 Life Data Analysis for Better Asset Decisions
🔹 CMMS and FRACAS – Unlocking the Value of Reliability Data
🔹 From Foundations to World Class – A Predictive Maintenance AI/ML Case Study

Drawing on practical experience, lessons learned and proven methodologies, the series will highlight why successful predictive maintenance depends on much more than technology — it requires strong reliability practices, quality data and disciplined asset management.

👥 Designed for asset managers, reliability engineers, maintenance professionals, operations leaders and anyone looking to improve asset performance and prepare for the next generation of reliability.

✅ Free for AMCouncil members
🎟️ Non-members are welcome to attend for a registration fee
📚 CPD allocated for each session attended

Each webinar can be attended individually, or join us for the full five-part journey from reliability fundamentals through to AI-enabled maintenance excellence.

👉 Separate registration is required for each session. View sessions here: https://www.amcouncil.com.au/events/list/?tribe-bar-search=MRiAM

Reading about a new tool is one thing, but watching it work is something else.We are running a short live session where ...
02/09/2026

Reading about a new tool is one thing, but watching it work is something else.

We are running a short live session where we will walk through the new member portal, show you what AMai can do with a few real prompts, and give you a look at the Nexus course.

Then we will hand the floor over for questions.

Join the webinar for free on:

🗓️ Thursday, 17 September 2026
🕙 1-1.30pm AEST

What we will cover:
✔️ A guided walkthrough of the new portal, from logging in to finding what you need
✔️ Two or three AMai prompts run live, including the ones members have found most useful
✔️ A look at Nexus and how to get started with module one on AI-Native Professional
✔️ Open Q&A for whatever you want to ask, including the harder questions about AI

Register here: https://www.amcouncil.com.au/event/webinar-new-member-portal-amai-nexus-live-demo-and-qa/

Members told us the AMBoK was hard to search and the site was hard to navigate. So we rebuilt it, to support the work of...
01/09/2026

Members told us the AMBoK was hard to search and the site was hard to navigate. So we rebuilt it, to support the work of asset management professionals.
The new member portal is the direct result of that feedback. Faster, cleaner and centred on the things members actually use, such as CPD, events, certification and now AMai and Nexus.

If you haven’t already, log in to see the portal: https://app.amcouncil.com.au/

The Human–AI Boundary Framework for Asset Management — Version 1.0 is published.A world first for our profession, built ...
31/08/2026

The Human–AI Boundary Framework for Asset Management — Version 1.0 is published.

A world first for our profession, built the way a first should be: in the open, by the community itself.

Why it exists: across almost 2,800 responses in our "Who Decides?" series, "AI should have no role in asset management" scored exactly 0%. Full autonomy barely scored either. The question was never whether — it's where the boundary sits. Today the community's answer is live.

Built across four public webinars and three review cycles, judged line by line by a volunteer working group — final pass: 162 votes, zero objections.

Inside:
▪ Seven principles for AI in asset-management decisions
▪ A six-level ladder, from assistant to autonomous
▪ A 12-row Decision Rights Matrix, set by practitioners' own votes
▪ A nine-question boundary test, the action envelope and the engineered stop
▪ Records that make oversight verifiable — and a getting-started path for any size of organisation

"Thank you to every volunteer who took part in the webinars and joined the working group. Version 1.0 is a minimum viable framework, and that is deliberate: AI moves in weeks, so we will iterate fast. Prediction, trend analysis and image recognition are yesterday's AI — the real power arrives when AI drafts, reasons and acts inside human-set boundaries. This framework was built exactly that way: AI drafted, the community judged, a named human signed. Join the next iteration." — Kai D**g, Project Chair

Read v1.0 — and every vote behind it: https://projects.amcouncil.com.au/human-ai-boundary/

Join us for the official launch — Webinar 5: Thursday 24 September, 1:00–1:30 pm AEST. Register: https://www.amcouncil.com.au/event/webinar-the-boundary-drawn-launching-the-human-ai-boundary-framework-for-asset-management/

Where should your organisation draw the line between AI recommending and AI acting? Tell us in the comments.

📍 Townsville – join us for our next AMCouncil Townsville Region Hub technical meetThe Asset Management Council invites p...
31/08/2026

📍 Townsville – join us for our next AMCouncil Townsville Region Hub technical meet

The Asset Management Council invites professionals from Townsville and the surrounding region to Asset Management: Insights from Industry and Academia on Wednesday, 16 September 2026.

This evening event will bring together perspectives from both industry and academia, with practical discussion around:

• using technology to inform decision-making
• culture, people, process and operations
• engineering and live monitoring to assess asset condition
• practical asset management and decision-making disciplines
• applying the Asset Management Line of Sight

Attendees will hear real-world examples of how organisations are using data, engineering expertise and organisational capability to improve reliability, manage risk and make better asset investment decisions.

📅 Wednesday, 16 September 2026
⏰ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
🤝 Networking from 5:00 pm
📍 Rockfield Technologies Australia Head Office, Townsville

The event is relevant to asset owners and managers, reliability and maintenance professionals, engineers, technical specialists, organisational leaders, researchers, students and anyone interested in improving asset performance and decision making.

A big thank you to William Milne, AMCouncil Townsville Region Hub Lead, for arranging the event and helping bring the local asset management community together.

👉 Fore more information and to register to attend: https://www.amcouncil.com.au/event/townsville-asset-management-insights-from-industry-and-academia/

If you are an asset management professional, this is worth knowing about.AM Council has built an Agentic AI assistant ca...
31/08/2026

If you are an asset management professional, this is worth knowing about.

AM Council has built an Agentic AI assistant called AMai into its member portal. It draws on the Asset Management Body of Knowledge and has access to member accounts, so it can take actions rather than just answer questions.

For example, tracking your CPD has never been easier. With AMai, you can just ask:
"Add the 4 CPD hrs from [event name] on [date] to my record."

➡️ AMai finds the event, checks the points and updates your record on the spot.

That's the difference between AM Council's own AI assistant and a generic chatbot. It knows your membership record and our body of knowledge, so it can get things done, not just guess at an answer.

Log in and try it yourself at https://app.amcouncil.com.au/

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