7. Establish data collection systems to back up the Life Cycle Costing model

Link these to other organisational data systems and those of team partners.

Clients could drive integrated data management systems, by ensuring that the team shares all available data on facilities and components: initial costs, life expectancy, expected repairs/ renewals periods.
Encourage suppliers and sub contractors to provide capital and life cycle costs on their products, including their expected life, performance and the costs in use.
Set a common database to include the relevant component information and specifications.
Update this by recording actual experience against this data, including failures, reasons for these and remedial action taken.
Analyse data on component failures and trends in responsive repairs to assess the extent to which these can be reduced/ avoided in the future by radical product changes in planned maintenance/ upgrading programmes.

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