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What We Do

Asset management,
reliability & digital services

Optimal® offers the ARaaS® (Asset Reliability as a Service) framework — a structured, continuous service model for delivering Asset Performance Management. It combines reliability engineering, data-driven insight and continuous optimisation to improve asset availability, production stability and lifecycle value. ARaaS® is not a one-off project — it is a strategic partnership that evolves with your assets, compounding reliability improvements year on year.

Through Optimal360™, our converged IT and OT asset intelligence platform, we deliver agentless asset discovery, dynamic CMDB management, application dependency mapping, Software Asset Management (SAM) and licence optimisation — eliminating the manual overhead of keeping asset data current and enabling faster, more confident operational decisions across both digital and physical environments.

Our Advisory & Optimisation services support organisations achieving ISO 55001 certification, embedding governance, work management policy and continuous improvement — from Spares Optimisation and RCM studies to RDS-PP asset structuring and Accelerated Asset Interventions (AAI).

ARaaS® — Asset Reliability as a Service → Maintenance Strategy & RCM Studies → Asset Integrity & Risk-Based Inspection → Predictive & Prescriptive Maintenance → Spares & Materials Optimisation → Optimal360™ — IT & OT Asset Intelligence →

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Industries

Sectors we serve

All industries

Pharma & Life Sciences

Client Work

Selected case studies

All case studies

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Mining · South Africa

Maintenance Strategy Development & Optimisation — Major Mining Group

Optimal deployed reliability engineers across multiple sites to develop plant hierarchies, conduct FMECA and implement RCM-based maintenance strategies across Diamond, Platinum, Coal and Iron Ore operations. A long-term strategic partnership embedded across an entire asset portfolio.

15%

Average equipment availability uplift across sites

Multi-site

Ongoing rollout across commodities

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Oil & Gas · North Sea, UK

Gas Turbine RCM Study — Offshore Power Generation

RCM derivation study for five gas turbines (PGT25 and LM2500) across two offshore platforms — targeting availability improvement from 92% to 98%. Delivered a new suite of bespoke systematic maintenance tasks, spare parts preservation strategy and a comprehensive vulnerability analysis identifying 40 previously unknown risks.

92→98%

Turbine availability target set

40

New vulnerabilities identified & mitigated

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03

Nuclear · UK

Materials Management Strategy — Nuclear Decommissioning Facility

A £91M stock and spares estate — 40% of which was over 20 years old — was reviewed using TOGAF 9.2 and SAFe frameworks to establish current state and define a structured Materials Management Strategy aligned to operational criticality and working capital objectives.

£14M

Stock identified for disposal in year one

20%

Warehousing capacity freed

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Oil & Gas · Offshore FPSO

Asset Life Extension Study — Offshore FPSO

Optimal developed a Work Breakdown Structure and Ageing Model Database to support a full technical life extension study for an FPSO — assessing 7,800 individual items across 511 equipment groups, profiling degradation mechanisms, estimating lifecycle costs and providing a structured data repository for ongoing monitoring and future predictive assessment.

7,800

Items assessed across all disciplines

511

Equipment groups with costed degradation profiles

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05

Oil & Gas · Nigeria

Maintenance & Inspection Engineering — Brownfield Tie-In, West Africa

Optimal delivered end-to-end MIE support — from detailed engineering through to operational handover — for a new well pad cluster tied into live processing infrastructure. Embedded RBI, RCM, SECE performance standards and a fully populated CMIMS before first gas, ensuring operational readiness and long-term integrity from day one.

Day 1

Fully validated CMIMS active at first gas

RBI + RCM

Integrity & maintenance frameworks embedded pre-start-up

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Digital Asset Management

Optimal360™ —
Converged IT & OT Asset Intelligence

Optimal360™ is Optimal®'s integrated asset management platform — combining agentless IT discovery and CMDB with software licence optimisation across both IT infrastructure and operational technology environments. It underpins the Digital Engineering pillar of ARaaS®, giving organisations a single, perpetually up-to-date source of truth across physical and digital assets.

Available as a fully managed service or self-serve platform — Optimal360™ eliminates the administrative burden of keeping asset data current, reducing the risk of acting on inaccurate information and enabling faster, more confident operational decisions.

● Fully Managed Service ● Self-Serve Platform

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100% Agentless — no endpoint software required for IT discovery

Avg. 22% Software cost saving through licence optimisation

↓ 69% Reduction in software audit risk and compliance exposure

£2.4M Average cost avoidance per client engagement

30+ Native integrations — ITSM, cloud, hypervisor, network

IT & OT Converged visibility across digital and physical asset estates

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Asset Discovery & CMDB Powered by Optimal360™ Discovery Engine

Agentless auto-discovery — WinRM, WMI, SSH, SNMP and REST API, no endpoint agents required
Full hybrid coverage: on-premises, cloud (AWS, Azure), hypervisors, network and storage
Application dependency mapping — system-to-system and service-to-service relationship intelligence
Affinity Groups and Business Service mapping with impact radius analysis across every CI event
Insights+ reporting suite with pre-configured dashboards across DCIM, ITAM, migration and IT Ops
ITSM integration, air-gapped deployment support, and OT/ICS asset visibility

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Software Asset Management (SAM) Powered by Optimal360™ SAM Engine

Full software inventory with licence entitlement reconciliation — purchased vs. actual usage
Cost harvesting — identify unused, redundant and over-licensed software for immediate reclamation
Vendor audit defence with always-current, audit-ready compliance position
Cloud and SaaS licence management across Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS and Google Workspace
Usage metering, software normalisation and procurement alignment to real consumption data
ISO 19770-aligned compliance reporting, with OT software tracking across SCADA environments

Self-Serve

Platform Subscription

Optimal360™ is available as a direct platform subscription — your team operates the discovery and SAM engines independently, with onboarding support and access to Optimal's expertise when needed. Ideal for organisations with in-house IT capability seeking rapid visibility and control of their asset estate.

Fully Managed

Managed by Optimal

Optimal's specialists deploy, configure and continuously manage Optimal360™ on your behalf — delivering the insights without the operational overhead. The fully managed model integrates directly with ARaaS® programmes, ensuring your CMDB and SAM data perpetually feeds reliability and maintenance decision-making across the asset lifecycle.

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