scope:

This document applies to:

• Maintenance

• Engineering

• Information Management

• Infrastructure Investment

and all their staff who have responsibilities for asset maintenance, renewals and enhancements, including the management and reimbursement of contractors that provide services such as maintaining asset databases and the production and procurement of new contracts, for those assets that are nominated to be held within Ellipse. It also covers the management and future development of the Ellipse system.

Purpose

This document mandates the use of Ellipse and its associated processes and procedures.

Ellipse is a system for managing and recording asset maintenance activities. It is an integrated asset management system and associated set of processes which facilitates key planning and work management activities performed on assets and includes a register of nominated maintenance assets and agreed data attributes.

The System Business Owner shall be the Programme Manager, NST Maintenance Systems & Data. The Custodian of Ellipse shall be the Asset Knowledge Business Support Manager. Information Management shall provide technical system and business support to the users of Ellipse. Responsibility for the timely collection, validation, maintenance, integrity and audit of the data rests with the Maintenance function.