01.15.07
Posted in General, Facility Management at 2:34 pm by Admin
According to the International Facility Management Association (IFMA), a facilities manager is define as “A profession that encompasses multiple disciplines to ensure functionality of the built environment by integrating people, place, process and technology.”
While reading through a local newspaper, I found a job opening for a Facilities Manager at one company. Here are the jobs description that they have outlined to become their facility manager:
- To formulate and implement strategies for Facilities Department to meet plant objectives for production, cost, ESH and volume ramp.
- Manage new factory facilities installation and overseeing all requirements to be able to support operations of production machines.
- Manage periodic maintenance of facilities machines, equipment and instruments supporting the Production floor including clean room to attain consistent quality outputs.
- Liaise with Production during plant breakdown and manage trouble shooting and rectification on a timely schedule
- Liaise with Production for plant upgrade or rearrangement, design plant layout with maximum space utilization and provide completion as scheduled.
- Design, install, operate and/or maintain all facilities equipment, instruments and channels inclusive of power substation, air compressors, water and process gas supply channels, air conditioning systems, cooling towers, boilers, etc, (if it is not outsourced).
- Liaise and network with TNB, JBA, DOSH and other relevant authorities and suppliers to attain sufficient and consistent uninterrupted quality supply.
- Oversee Environment, Safety and Health (ESH) program & develop plant wide strategy to implement, educate and enforce ESH policies, rules and regulations in compliance to local and corporate standards.
External and academic requirements:
- Degree in Electrical / Mechanical Engineering or equivalent with experience in the same field
- Minimum 7 to 10 years experience in M&E works preferable from an electronic or electrical manufacturing environment. Competent in project management an added advantage
- Strong technical knowledge of electrical and mechanical applications.
- Experience in various TPM, 5S, Kaizen and CIP Programs
- Computer literacy is a must.
- Written and verbal proficiency in English and Bahasa Malaysia.
- Good listener and trainer with strong people management skills and leadership quality.
We find that Facilities Manager is quite a high pressure and a demanding job. However with the right knowledge and tool set, a facilities manager’s task could become much more easier and efficient. Using ARCHIBUS/FM solution would be the most preferred choice.
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12.04.06
Posted in Facility Management, Facility Management Books at 2:36 pm by Admin
Amazon.com now has a new features that enables the viewer to read a chapter or two of the book that is in store at Amazon. We found an interesting book written by Gregory H. Magee, a former Facilities Engineer for the Coast Guard Training Center in Cape May, New Jersey.
Reading the Editorial Reviews Amazon has written, the book will benefit you from hundreds of better ideas for planning and managingi maintenance functions in your organization. The book explains and demonstrates successful management techniques for all aspects of maintenance, repair and improvements for buildings, machinery, equipment and grounds. For more information, click on the image below and learn more about the book.
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10.02.06
Posted in Facility Management, Solution at 4:08 pm by Admin
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)
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09.27.06
Posted in General, Facility Management at 2:58 pm by Admin
Earlier this month, we received a call from an IT Department for one of the biggest government agency in town. They’ve asked us to do a presentation for them about ARCHIBUS/FM. This was a response from the local newspaper article that was published back in 22nd July 2006. The meeting was attended by about 23 personnel at one of their meeting hall.
After the presentation was over, the Q&A session raised a few interesting points that is clouding the public sector regarding data that they have. First of all, most of their data is in hard copy format and they are concerned about the migration from hard copy to soft copy. Secondly, the implementation of a new system would mean that they are required to adapt to change which is a hard thing to do when you’ve been doing the same job for years. Educating the end user is a great challenge and should be carefully executed with a plan.
After listening to ARCHIBUS/FM presentation over and over again for several times, I got a few ideas. If you’ve been learning about ARCHIBUS/FM like I did, you’ll probably know that ARCHIBUS/FM is a comprehensive software with so many modules and most of the time, you will overlook its capability. Trying to search for a simpler explanation will eventually results into more confusions. What I’m planning to do is I’ll break up the modules and try to configure how the software works and post it here in this blog. Hope that would help myself and our readers out there who are seeking more information about ARCHIBUS/FM.
If you happen to be an expert in ARCHIBUS/FM, do give us comments or feedback down below. We would love to hear something from our readers.
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