The Blog for SIMEK Total Infrastructure & Facilities Management (TIFM) projects undertaken by SIMEK (M) Sdn Bhd
Telargo is a US Based Mobile Assets Management Company which provide a wide range of comprehensive fleet and workforce management tools to streamline and optimize business. Here is a simple diagram showing how the technology works:
They have already implemented its services globally which includes our country here in Malaysia. Check out a few glimpse of Kuala Lumpur in the video below hosted on YouTube:
If you have fiddle around at at least access any maintenance or facility management software, you will notice that it takes a while for you to familiarize yourself before you get the hang of it. Let us say that you never done facility management job before and suddenly, your management suddenly decided to relocate you to a maintenance division and you are required to handle the management of it. You are then given a set of software to run and do your work and you are just given a short training before you get comfortable with it. What do you do? Here’s some tip to overcome this problem:
Tip Number 1
When you get to your office, before you do anything, stare at the main dashboard for at least 5 minutes. This is for you to digest what button and features the software has. If that went well, don’t be afraid to click around. Just don’t click on the ‘delete’ though.
Tip Number 2
Be familiar with the jargons of the software. If you don’t understand any of the terms, go to help and look up on the glossary. Don’t spend too much time on the help because it will eat up a lot of time, only refer to help as a reference point and not your tutorial. If you have no idea on what you are dealing with, you can always go online, search on Google or Wikipedia for some explanation.
Tip Number 3
Search for tips and tricks or do some small experiment using the software to find shortcuts so that you can save up time. The purpose of having software is to save time, it is almost the same as having a calculator, you save time by not having to struggle counting using your head.
Bottomline, if you focus, spend time and do your work properly, you’ll get the hang of these maintenance management softwares.
When we refer to Asset Management, there are different perspectives that we can look into. If you are new to asset management, you can read about asset management on Wikipedia. Although Wikipedia is not the perfect place to learn in depth about the subject, it has the basic understanding you need as a start. So, how asset management can be related to our Total Infrastructure and Facilities Management (TIFM) solution? We will try to make thing as visualize as possible for simplicity reason.
Here is what we can discover on Wikipedia about Asset Management in relation to TIFM solution.
This post would take longer if I were to write about it. Hope the above image would clear things out. So, where does asset management fit the picture in TIFM? TIFM is already a fancy name. Now we’ll introduce you to another fancy name called The Integrated Workplace Solution:
As you can see, physical assets is being managed by TIFM and consolidated with other tasks and operations. So now we get the picture of how the role of asset management is being put into our solution process. If you need further explanation, you can contact us and we’ll see how we could help you.
Last month, we discovered a web-based application called JotSpot. As a small company and a group, we value low cost application to lower our overhead. After reading about what JotSpot Wiki could do plus it offers a free personal account, we opened up an account there. The purpose was to handle our company’s information online without ever hosting ourselves. After fiddling around the web-based application (we wanted it to handle our small project management group), we found out that we need more of the features and we had to pay for that:
Since it’s a paid service, it put us off on using this. So today, we found out:
Now this is a good sign of free usage for this fantastic tool. We can’t wait for its relaunch.
