Overview:

Facilities management has emerged into a major, thriving business sector and discipline and continues to grow fast in many countries. Indeed, in recent years, the range of services covered within the remit of facilities management has become more complex, as facilities management has moved into the core operational functions of client organisations. It is necessary for facilities management service providers and their customers to acknowledge the role of facilities management in the organisation’s strategic operations.

Activities need to be managed in facilities management:

•    Environmental Health & Safety
•    Mechanical Systems
•    Power Systems
•    Building Systems
•    Life/Safety Systems
•    Space Management

Challenges:

One of the largest expenses of running a business today is the cost of providing and maintaining facilities. As a result, organizations with a large number of buildings or a campus with significant square footage are implementing best practices to give them greater visibility into their facility assets, improve operational efficiencies, and increase facility utilization.

Facilities managers are under increasing pressure to provide a well-maintained building while under increased budgetary constraints and increased regulatory requirements.

Key challenges:

•    To increase energy efficiency and performance of the building
•    To reduce labour cost in operating facilities
•    To increase productivity and effectiveness in building management
•    To implement mobile technology for greater efficiency
•    Condition-based maintenance Vs scheduled  maintenance
•    To improve business strategy and revenue

Solution:

IBM Maximo Asset Management for managing facilities
Helps manage a smarter facility, improve asset life and drive more sustainable practices

The IBM® Maximo® Asset Management solution, provides the tools to effectively maintain your facilities in today’s challenging environment. Maximo also provides unparalleled visibility into the facility portfolio, and the nature and volume of work being performed to maintain those sites. By offering a catalogue of available maintenance services, with the associated costs and delivery steps, Maximo ensures consistent delivery and execution of services, while reducing inaccuracies, reworks, and total costs. As a result, this also allows for a shift in the type of work being performed from reactive to proactive, resulting in improved asset performance, longer asset life and ultimately a more sustainable building.


IBM Maximo® Asset Management is a software solution that helps unify comprehensive asset life cycle and maintenance management on a single platform.

Benefits include:

•    Better planning and control thanks to insights for all enterprise assets, their conditions and work processes
•    Asset deployment, specification, monitoring, calibration and tracking done from a single system
•    End users can create service requests that can be automatically routed to either an internal department or

     an external provider for faster execution, resulting in higher satisfaction levels
•    A mobile tool shares work management information directly with maintenance workers and plans inventory

     to meet the maintenance demand, ensuring that the right parts are available when needed, which leads to

     more accurate real-time work execution
•    Vendor contract management with comprehensive support for purchase, blanket, lease, rental, warranty,

     labour, master and user-defined contracts
•    Service levels are aligned with business objectives by defining service offerings and establishing service level

     agreements (SLAs)
•    Flexibility to adapt to changing business requirements, connecting with other enterprise systems through a

     flexible business process configuration platform and scalable service oriented architecture

In response to creating “smarter” buildings and helping with sustainability initiatives, IBM Maximo can be a critical factor in tracking environmentally geared activities.

For example: Understanding what assets are performing optimally, tracking how many of the light bulbs are energy efficient, which of the restrooms have low-flow water valves, and other similar initiatives. And IBM Maximo can provide long- and short-term planning, prevention, reactive and condition-based maintenance. Having this information available during daily routine maintenance and as part of capital project planning is key to having measurable results that proves energy savings can help an organization become a Leader in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).
Simply said, IBM Maximo gives workers a scaled management system. Because of this advantage, employees have a higher rate of productivity and are happier working in a well-maintained environment. Employees also have a better working relationship with vendors because communications—from work assignment to payment—are greatly improved.

MACS Solution for Facility management:
MACS EU Limited employs staff in Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and United Kingdom to give state of art customer service. MACS has broad experience of implementing solutions for Facilities management, Maintenance Management, Asset Management and IT Service Management.

As a premier business partner to IBM, MACS EU works closely with ClickSoftware within the European Market. MACS EU has the strength and ability to assist management in defining implementation objectives that are relevant to success of the business. We will set and identify performance measurement parameters that support achievement of these objectives.

In assembling engineering data there is dedication to careful research and attention to detail. All technical staff of MACS EU qualified as professional engineers or technicians are experienced in process, facilities, manufacturing, Enterprise Asset Management and IT Asset & Service Management.
MACS EU has worked in most sectors of the manufacturing, pharmaceutical, facilities maintenance and transportation. Each industry has special features and requirements that influence maintenance and operating policies and hence the procedures needed for their implementation.

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