Utilisation · The idle list · Element
The carrying cost
What the idle asset costs per period while it is not being used.
The part
What it is
Maintenance, licensing, insurance, space and the capital tied up all continue regardless of use.
The total across the list is usually the number that prompts action, because individually each item looks too small to bother with.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.
Capital tied up
What could be released, which is a separate and often larger figure.
Money shared type