Facilities management made easier

Are you a facilities manager, space planner or CAD user in a facilities environment and are finding that:

-Your facilities information is updated and maintained in manual manner or requires redundant data entry into multiple different tools and systems.
-Too much time and effort is being spent on generating accurate and timely space utilization, vacancy and maintenance reports.
-Internal personnel and vendors arrive on-site for moves only to discover that existing conditions are different than indicated on your drawings.
-Building and facilities maintenance is not getting performed in a timely and efficient manner or has to rely on unreliable drawings and information.
-Your reputation is at stake because you have to track and report space and occupancy utilization using unreliable data.
-You need a better way to track asset information including warrantees, service contracts, spare parts, etc.
-Existing systems in use at your company to perform these functions are difficult to use, not well supported, or not integrated with other in-house systems.

If so, then you may be interested in Autodesk® FMDesktop, Autodesk’s new computer-aided facility management (CAFM) and computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). FMDesktop provides facility managers and CAD technicians with four major functions including:

-Space and asset management (including allocations and inventory)
-Project management (including construction, renovation and moves)
-Emergency management (including disaster planning and recovery)
-Maintenance management (including on-demand and scheduled)

One of Autodesk’s major goals with FMDesktop was to provide a tool that had 80 percent or more of the functionality of competitive products at 20 percent of the cost, 20 percent of the learning curve, and 20 percent of the implementation time. In surveying the market, Autodesk found that users of competitive packages typically do not end up implementing their packages’ advanced features or have their projects fail because of the difficulty of using and/or implementing the product.

FMDesktop is able to extract space information from the following Autodesk CAD packages:

-AutoCAD 2005 or higher
-Autodesk Architectural Desktop and Building Systems
-Autodesk Revit

FMDesktop has greatly simplified extracting space information from the above CAD systems and linking it to the facility database via compact, efficient and universally viewable DWF files. FMDesktop also provides non-CAD users with simple, intuitive tools for entering and viewing spatial information in both graphical and non-graphical formats.

FMDesktop component modules include:

Autodesk Facility Link – Connects objects in your facility drawings to records in the FMDesktop database in a simple, easy to use manner and automatically generates drawing legends, area labels and hatches. You can add, edit, query and delete database records right inside of your CAD application.

Autodesk Facility Manager – Manages all facility drawings and data in a non-CAD/database environment and allows querying, panning, zooming, printing and sharing facility drawings and data. Over (130) predefined reports along with the ability to generate custom reports are included.

Autodesk Facility Web – Allows access and sharing of all facility data and drawings through the Internet or your organization’s Intranet. With Autodesk Design Review, team members can utilize an intuitive of markup tools to annotate drawings.

Autodesk Facility Request – Helps your facility occupants enter service, maintenance and move requests.

At Hagerman & Company, we have all of the services necessary to help make your FMDesktop implementation a success including:

-Pre-sale consulting and product demonstrations
-Training and implementation services
-Data migration from your existing system

If you would like to learn more about Autodesk FMDesktop, please feel free to contact your local Hagerman & Company sales representative. We’re eager to be of service.
 

This page last edited on Friday, December 19, 2008