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Managing Furniture and Equipment Assets. Why CAFM: Value of Assets. Your Organization’s FM Assets are Critical to Strategic Business Planning. What % in Buildings, Equipment and All Facility Assets?. What % in Real Estate?. F&E Assets are expensive. Asset Management Areas .
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Why CAFM: Value of Assets Your Organization’s FM Assets are Critical to Strategic Business Planning What % in Buildings, Equipment and All Facility Assets? What % in Real Estate? F&E Assets are expensive
Asset Management Areas • Inventory Control for Furniture and Equipment • Location tracking • Move Co-ordination • Maintenance • Lease and Warranty Tracking • Depreciation
Furniture & Equipment Issues • Furniture & Equipment Standards • Managing Moves • Furniture & Equipment Inventory • Alphanumeric databases • Graphical links to databases
Inventory by Standards • Tracks the quantity of each type (standard) • Records do NOT link to exact items
Tagged Furniture Inventory Each item had a unique key which always references an item, regardless of who uses it. • Key Value • Barcode
Tagged Furniture Inventory • A tagged furniture inventory is composed of precisely identified furniture assets, such that a key value or bar code refers to an exact item, which has an exact location in the building, is used by a specific employee, and can have specific insurance, lease, and warranty data.
Working with Barcodes • Barcodes • Sets of black vertical lines that graphically represent specific alphanumeric values. • Use Windows Bar Code Fonts.
Barcode Units • Palm units or Barcode readers
Managing Assets from CAD • Asset Symbols • CAD drawings Workstation Asset
Managing Moves • Moves for Assets and Employees • Planning New Layouts • Generating Move Orders • Calculating Move Costs • Selecting Items in CAD to Move
Move Projects • Organizes moves for various projects in an organization
Employee Move Orders • Moves for Assets for Selected Employees
Room Move Orders • Moves for Assets for Selected Rooms
Calculate Move Costs • Calculate move order costs in the following situations: • When you want to estimate the costs of executing a particular move. • Before issuing a move order, run this action to determine move expenses. If the move is too expensive, you may want to cancel the move order. • After you have executed a move and want the reports of the Manage Move Orders activity to report on the actual cost of the move.
Operations Management • Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) • Work Order Management • Preventive Maintenance • Maintenance Reports
Operations Management • Work orders • PM for facilities and related equipment • PM Bio-medical Equipment • Facilities operations
Operations Management • Better asset tracking and maintenance can be performed if equipment and preventive maintenance features are designed into or can be added to the space information. Provide accurate drawings and documentation for JCAHO’s Statement of Conditions assessment of your fire protection and life safety systems Comprehensive and easy reporting capabilities provide necessary support for any JCAHO inspection of your preventive maintenance procedures and history