Leading Edge Decision Support

Bridge the gap between technical problems and financially justified solutions.

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Evaluate and justify

Evaluate and justify what to do, why and when.

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Make the right decisions

Optimal decision-making in all stages of an asset life cycle

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Specific types of Decision
and Business Case justification?

How to evaluate and optimise the timing of investment projects, asset replacements, inspections, maintenance, spares or other options

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Organisational capabilities in
Decision Making

Develop the skills, processes and tools to ensure that all decisions about managing assets deliver the best possible value-for-money.

Decision Support for Asset Management

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Decisions in Asset Management

Different asset life cycle stages represent very different decision-making environments and offer different opportunities to influence the whole life cycle value.

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DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS

Decision Support for Asset Management what is it and why businesses need our processes, products and services.

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EXPERT FACILITATION

DSTL is the world leader in quantified cost, risk, performance and life cycle optimisation of physical assets.

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PROCESS LEARNING

The 6-step SALVO Process provides a clear, logical and flexible way of joining up many existing processes and tools.

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STRATEGIC PARTNERING

Trusted organisations and individuals help us to provide software licensing, support, training and consultancy services.

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Case Studies and White Papers

Read about our latest success stories and gain new insights through our published through-leadership papers.

EXPLORE CASE STUDIES

The SALVO Project

The SALVO Project was a 3-year, multi-industry R&D programme to develop innovative approaches to decision-making about the management of aging physical assets.

EXPLORE SALVO PROJECT

We have been using the SALVO Process™ and supportive DST Maintenance Evaluator™ to update and improve the maintenance strategies for our electricity network assets. Using the detailed storyboards built into the software, which provide guidance on the data required for the decision analysis, the process has enabled us to use a mix of data from our CMMS records and capture expert knowledge to quantify risks and degradation patterns…

Sam Gibson, Investment Strategy Manager (Stations), Northern Ireland Electricity Networks

We were facing the apparently urgent replacement for obsolete equipment to the order of tens of millions of pounds. With SALVO™ we were able to reduce this by 60% and renegotiate support arrangements for the foreseeable future..

Christine Pretorius, Industrial Engineering, Sasol Synfuels

We are using DST Lifespan Evaluator™ and DST Inventory Optimizer™software to help us with our asset management decisions. We have been able to make better and more consistent decisions in key areas of business strategy, such as ‘when is the optimal time to replace aging equipment?’, and ‘which spares to hold and how many?’ …

Anton Muller, Snr Reliability Engineer, Queensland Nitrates

The SAVLO™ Process has helped us to identify and demonstrate the optimal timing of asset replacements and the optimal frequency for maintenance interventions. The outputs from SALVO™ are key components of our ‘Asset Master Plans’: we are now in the best place we have ever been.

Geoff Aitkenhead, Asset Management Director, Scottish Water

SALVO™ is proving to be a useful tool in our armoury, providing a robust and consistent method of analysing complex asset investment decisions and providing a methodology of bringing diverse stakeholder groups together to jointly develop a solution.

Richard Moore, Head of Asset Management, London Underground

We were facing the apparently urgent replacement for obsolete equipment to the order of tens of millions of pounds. With SALVO™we were able to reduce this by 60% and renegotiate support arrangements for the foreseeable future.

Christine Pretorius, Industrial Engineering, Sasol Synfuels

Our client really need processes like SALVO™ – which provides a consistent, structured and quantified means of evaluating what to spend on their facilities, when and why.

Keith Hamer, Group VP Engineering & Asset Management, Sodexo

SALVO™ allows us to communicate the basis of decisions to a range of stakeholders and, importantly, understand the impact of data quality on the decision.

Janet Ham, Capital Planning, Water Corporation of Australia

The SALVO™ process and the DST™ toolkit is helping us identify and demonstrate the best time to replace a wide range of deteriorating or obsolete assets and also show how much extra asset life can be achieved by overhaul or refurbishment. DST’s™ expert facilitation services have been invaluable in justifying investment and optimal timing around asset replacement and life extension decisions.

David Deary, Project Support Manager, DSM Nutritional Products, Dalry