It doesn't pay being an innovator!!
In 2001 we spent a year developing (unpaid!) a business driven asset management model and 306 page book, protected by copyright, for a course for Engineering Education Australia, a commercial branch of the Institution of Engineers, Australia (now Engineers Australia). The book explained first line asset management as a combined team of former operators and maintainers.

In 2007 the Australian Asset Management Council, another branch of Engineers Australia, published the following model, named the 'AMC Technologied model', which they claimed to have developed, claim copyright for and use in their courses and  publications and, likely, (with my course book) as the basis of their 'AM book of knowledge' and certification activities.

Asset Productivity Optimisers

We combine operations, maintenance and support functions, to optimise the balance between asset output (revenue, profit, return on investment), input of resources (cost) and risk, which meets the aim of any business at any level.
We employ three methods of assisting you optimising asset output and transfering skills to your employees:

• systematically cover various asset management improvement methods,with real life examples and analysis sheets and charts, to apply the methods without further assistance.

• The courses teach up to 24 of your personnel a technique, following our manual with a PowerPoint presentation.
  
• You benefit from the invaluable positive contribution of good facilitation.
  
• We use your assets for excercises and you can have your first asset thoroughly analysed, as part of the training.