Who should participate in an asset criticality workshop?
Include people who understand how the system operates, how it fails, the consequences of failure and how it is maintained.
What to consider
Operations can explain production requirements and workarounds. Maintenance and engineering can contribute failure mechanisms, repair needs and equipment dependencies. Safety, environmental and other specialists should join when their areas are relevant. A facilitator keeps the method consistent and makes sure assumptions and disagreements are recorded.
Practical steps
- Define the system boundary and circulate the asset list before the workshop.
- Agree on the meaning of each consequence category before assigning ratings.
- Ask participants to explain the evidence or assumptions behind their scores.
- Assign an owner to resolve missing information and communicate the approved results.
A practical example
For a compressor workshop, an operator explains the actual production demand, a technician describes recurring failures and an engineer identifies shared electrical dependencies. A safety or environmental representative joins when those consequences are relevant. The facilitator records disagreements and assigns someone to confirm missing facts. This prevents the ranking from depending only on a single department's view.
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