The document discusses asset management fundamentals and best practices for optimizing asset reliability and availability. It emphasizes that advanced asset management processes can provide the highest return on investment by optimizing operational costs, improving workforce productivity and safety, and enabling more informed decision making. It provides examples of how to track key performance indicators in an asset management system like IBM Maximo to optimize costs and reliability through metrics like labor utilization, asset utilization, equipment purchases, warranty recoveries, downtime, inventory needs, and material costs.