10.02.06
Choosing The Right Facility Management Solution For Small Organization
This is a preliminary part of how to choose the right solution for your Facility Management Program in your organization. We are laying out a few more parts and finalize it when we are done. Our objective is to share as much information for your benefit. Let’s not waste anymore time shall we.
To determine what level your organization is at, we normally categorize the need based on the measurement of area of the office, branches or facilities. For example, the smallest solution that we offer is for facilities measuring less than 100,000 square feet (9,300 square meters). To imagine that, a full size soccer pitch is between 100-130 yards (90-120 meters) long and 50-100 yards (45-90 metres) widths. So, the total area let’s say we take the maximum measurement would be 13,000 yards. To avoid confusion, we’ll standardize the measurement metrics to square meters. So, that would mean a soccer pitch would be 10,800 square meters in total area.
So, a facility that is more or less has the measurement of a soccer pitch, you can choose to have our smallest solution. Here’s another question, how do we measure the area of our premise? Of course we don’t want to do that physically, this is where drawings come into place. By using AutoCAD drawings, we could easily total up the measurement of the area with a click of a mouse. The solution that we recommend as a start is:
This small solution is limited to a single site or one postal code and can easily used by administrators and clerical staff. The only drawback is it can only be used by one person and has limited amount of records. Well, for a small size organization, I don’t see any reason for many people to access such information since it’ll cost more on wages.
So, instead of having many people handling the same information, only one person is sufficient if the person is properly trained. Either way, having useful records in a scalable application such as ARCHIBUS/FM is the best investment an organization, big or small would ever need.
The link below is additional information if you wish to further check it out:
Product Option Feature Matrix (Right click and Save As into your computer-PDF)
Product Option Brochure (Right click and Save As into your computer- PDF)
ARCHIBUS/FM Express (for further information)
