07.27.06
Posted in General at 10:25 am by Admin
I just browsed through a job listing website and found this Job Opening for the position Facilities and Maintenance Executive. This position hold responsibilities of:
- Responsible for the building facilities and machines.
- Able to operate, maintain and troubleshoot all facilities related to air-conditioning, lighting, water piping and other related installations.
- Liaise with contractors on any outsourced projects.
- Carry out routine preventive and predictive maintenance on machines and facilities.
- Manage a team of technicians and wiremen.
It’s a core and a vital part in a management’s operation so it is one of the most demanding jobs. With the right tool, doing all the things listed above could become easier. We are testing out a couple of maintenance softwares apart from our main product and we will do an honest review about it.
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07.25.06
Posted in General at 5:02 pm by Admin
In our previous post, we discussed about a dashboard and it’s function in the context of software usage. Basically, a software is a dashboard tool or we could call it a reporting tool to make sure that the right information is feeded to the end user. Our main product ARCHIBUS/FM is available in a web-based version and it seems to be the next preferable tool option for Facilities Management. Here’s how the ARCHIBUS FM Web Central Dashboard looks like:
(Click on the image above to have a better look of the enlarged one)
By using just an Internet Explorer browser, this dashboard basically tells you about Geographic Operations and Maintenance. The main significant of this dashboard is the skyview image of the place. It can also be integrated with the ever popular Google Earth (maybe Google Map too) but you don’t really need that. Google Earth requires a lot of computing power on a decent computer. Anything less would just slows the PC down. Unfortunately, the system doesn’t work on the latest Mozilla FireFox Browser so the loading of the page is much slower. It also uses ActiveX components. Still, the layout looks nice. It can also be customized according to your preference, however a competent programmer should be able to customize the layout. You can’t really do it yourself since the design code is a bit tricky but that would be because of the security purposes I guess.
The layout could be optimized for a better view if embeded with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) but normally the user is more interested in the value of the data instead of the software looks. Overall, the dashboard looks pretty nice, neat and tidy.
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07.24.06
Posted in FMS Project at 4:25 pm by Admin
According to The Free Dictionary, a dashboard is a panel under the windshield of a vehicle, containing indicator dials, compartments, and sometimes control instruments. So, basically in a software context, the term control panel is more appropriate. Anyway, a dashboard would fit in just fine since a dashboard function is to indicate the necessary information so that the driver or the user could make the necessary decision in order to navigate through whatever situation they are dealing with.
The Dashboard Spy is a blog written by a person who is a spy at The Dashboard Spy. I did a search for the keyword ‘Facility Management‘ to check and see if there is any software related to Facilities Management (click on the link to see the result). Only pharmaceutical facility management is found. Probably in our next post, we’ll give you a screenshot of the software that we use to manage facilities.
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