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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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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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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